Birder’s Twitter S3E20
- jonnyrankin
- Oct 23, 2023
- 2 min read
White-tailed Eagle - Long Thurlow, Suffolk - 22nd October 2023
Season 3 - episode 20 - the last show this season, or maybe ever! Listen again here:
We commence proceedings with some eagle facts - from eagle expert Jonny R:
Eagles can form a fist with their talons and knock a man out. Easily; and
Jonny R is an eagles spirit animal.
Paul French aka @Nomadbirder then joins us for bunting chat:
'The Flamborough Red-headed Bunting looks really bad' - Paul French 22nd October 2023.
Paul give us an identification masterclass - listen again with reference to the below photos:
From co-finder @Simon_Gillings
Tom Hines aka @tomhines10 photo:
There is no accepted Red-headed Bunting yet! The Skerries bird is pending!
The review of Black-headed/ Red-headed Bunting records will come… it’s taken over 60 episodes - but Birder’s Twitter is finally relevant!
Paul’s looks at saltwater American Wigeon:
Black Duck, American Coot or Red-headed Bunting is the worst bird on the British list.
Ruddy Shelduck will definitely ascend to Category A of the British List. Bad boy guarantee.
The Yorkshire list is on 470 which is the biggest County list in the Country- after Jonny R’s Suffolk list.
DDL looks at owls:
Jonny H persists with Vis Mig and smashed up Flamborough twice for White-billed Diver, the Red-headed Bunting, Sibe Stonechat and Black Redstart:
Jonny R dipped the eagle on Saturday - then massively un-dipped on Sunday. It was so glorious and magnificent:
We make predictions for the week including east coast Chimney Swift - it might happen?
We will be publishing episodes on the podcast in coming weeks - subscribe on iTunes/ Spotify so you don’t miss them…
Mark Cocker has a new book out. It might be good?
Remember - always GO FULL EAGLE! Listen again to S3E20 here:
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