Thanks to everyone who entered the "mystery bird" competition on Birdblog in November.
We have a winner, the first person who correctly named the species featured in Phil Boardman's pic taken near Skem...
The winner was none other than "the man with no nickname", Neill Hunt, who using all his not inconsequential powers of id and a typical jammyness, correctly called the bird as a Carrion Crow.
Individual Carrion Crows can show quite a lot of white in the wing on occasion, but Phil's oddity pic showed a bird with extreme wing flashes.
Well done Neill, and thanks to everyone else who had a go.
My own personal favourite suggestion was Dr Bob's upside down Bonxie...how's the weather on your planet Bob?
Neill's prize, supplied by John "Mad Dog" Bannon will be a copy of the new book, "In the Footsteps of Eric Hardy", a selection of the great man's writings, stuffed with tons of images too.
There were other suggestions for Neill's reward however - namely the job of counting the Coots on Southport Marine Lake everyday this winter for being such a smartypants.
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies...
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Nowt wrong with counting Coots!!!!!!
Dave
Marshside 1.12.08: Green Winged Teal at Sandgrounders Hide
Northern section of the Green Beach this afternoon produced 15 Common Snipe, 5 Jack Snipe, 1 Water Rail (my first here) and a Little Egret. Flock of c.50 Linnet/Twite between Weld Road and the pier but couldn't get close.
Went to the newsagents on the corner of College Road and Brooke Road East this morning, and spent a lovely 10 minutes watching a very confiding Yellow Wagtail. What a beautiful bird at extremely close range!
Thanks Bob, but I think your bird may have been a Grey Wagtail - at this time birds hatched this year, and winter plumage birds, can look a little like Yellow Wagtail, but those are all off in warmer southern climes by now.
Plex Moss today - c150 Whoopers, c150 Fieldfare and 30 Corn Buntings.
Hi John,
Where can I get hold of a copy of the Eric Hardy book? I remember seeing him out and about a few times many years ago.
Cheers,
Dave.
As a Southport resident and birder I've read your pages with interest. However where exactly is Green Beach ?? Are you talking about the grassy area behind the beach but in front of the pine forest in ainsdale OR a section of the beach itself. Or somewhere else entirely. Would be interested to know !
Dave & Keith: I'll post the availability details from John "Mad Dog" Bannon asap for the Hardy book. Keith, the Green Beach is the marshy area on the beach about a quarter of a mile north of the beach entrance at Shore Road, Ainsdale.
As it develops it becomes Taggs Island, and ultimately ends up at the Weld Road beach entrance at Birkdale.
ERIC HARDY BOOK DETAILS:
David Bryant has just dropped into the office with a copy of "In the footsteps of Eric Hardy", published by Hobby Publications.
Compiled and edited by David Bryant, the hardback book costs ã40, is 370 pages long, features 490 photographs, 32 ink drawings, 4 paintings and 25 maps.
It's not in the shops yet, but you can get it for ã40 + ã5 postage and packing, direct from:
David Bryant,
13 Strafford Drive,
Bootle,
Merseyside.
L20 9JN.
Cheques should be made payable to David Bryant.