Birder’s Twitter S3E5
- jonnyrankin
- Jul 21, 2023
- 2 min read
UK250 Club pin-badges are live! Everyone is finding a Black-winged Kite. Why don't you find one too and then treat yourself to a UK250 pin badge? Here's all the UK250 links you need:
UK Birding Pins:
Birder’s Space:
Bubo:
Listen again to the absolutely killer, extremely popular and absolutely righteous Brian McCloskey episode here:
DDL wasn’t expecting to be co-hosting yet is! He enjoys a strip search, they’re his favourite.
Jonny H gets stuck down the back of the sofa. Luckily Carly pulls him out, to belatedly join the call.
DDL has done some modest birding, including looking at a Marsh Harrier and a Curlew.
DDL was the 100th person to find a Blyth’s Reed and Jonny H submits other people’s Fea’s Petrels. That’s how you build a UK250 list.
Jonny H has a second brood, late singing Grasshopper Warbler and a Yellow Wag.
DDL and Jonny H are excited about baby seagulls. Sad. So sad.
Jonny R had a stellar birding week:
Mon - Swanton Novers Raptor Watchpoint between meetings
Tues - fledged Stonechat on my bike-birding route. No idea where it’s from.
Weds - Lady Amherst’s Pheasant! Bike-birding.
Sat - 268 Black-tailed Godwit back on Blyth patch, Mediterranean Gull numbers building and first ever patch Barn Owl!
Sun - sea watch; 13 Common Scoter, Arctic Skua, Kittiwake, Sandwich and comic terns commuting, 6 Gannet.
Jonny R is allowed to tick the Lady Amherst Pheasant and Golden Pheasants he’s seen. Everyone is in agreement. They remain on his list:
DDL and Jonny H hate Pheasants.
We talk Godwit ID and Jonny R has been reading old Birding Frontiers posts.
We have our Emerald Isle correspondent Brian McCloskey back on the show. Always one of our most popular guests!
Brian has sorted out Ireland’s third Black-winged Pratincole.
THERE’S NO F’IN RED IN THAT WING.
Brian’s 2020 Caspian Tern is well and truly unblocked.
Jonny R gets hard grief off the guest and co-hosts. AGAIN. All will be rectified in an upcoming trip report #SandSandGrouse
We get to low down on Brian’s epic Moroccan jaunt - cleaning up all target species.
Hemipode Extinct in Spain - could be missed?
We threaten to visit Simon and Nick in Tarifa again and Marsh Owls are proper f’d.
Brian ticked Nuthatch in the Atlas! And Woodlark!
Brian discusses the potential Moroccan/ Western Bonelli’s split…
Jonny H twitches Shetland - with various amounts of success
BE MORE BRIAN
We make some predications. Jonny H is frankly rude about Jonny R’s selections
Stewchat commands you to east coast seawatching in July:
(B)EAST COAST SEA WATCHERS RISE:
Of all the Birders Twitter episodes - this is definitely in the top three. Possibly the top one, certainly that I can remember. Listen again here:
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