Birders Twitter - S2E4
- jonnyrankin
- Jan 25, 2023
- 2 min read
DDL is late to his own party - he’s changed since becoming the coffee-table-book-face-of-Britain. It’s all canapés, champagne, red carpets and lack of punctuality for DDL nowadays.
Jonny and Jonny manage to avoid any bird-based chat for the first 10 mins of the episode. Impressive stuff!
Jonny H has enjoyed Siskin and Redpolls in the week, then a County tick crescendo Sunday! Although we all know the County tick was really an excuse to look at a King Eider…
You can join Jonny H on a guided walk at Bentley Community Woodland this coming Saturday 28th January:
We then celebrate the County of Cleveland for no reason before DDL FWINALLY turns in - a full twelve minutes late.
In 20 miles of forest walking Jonny R manages just one Crossbill!
DDL is opening shellfish live on air, has twitched Waxwings, done some guiding in the capital and twitches the Aldeburgh Wood Ducks - from Dubai!
Jonny R again promises an events page - now much promised and under delivered.
We fondly remember when Jake, Drew and Liam thermaled parakeets in the middle of the night on their way to a monstrous 130 species New Year's Day total.
Nige Jarman aka @nestfinders5978 shares County league tables from a recent British Birds, helpfully showing Suffolk number 10:
We then drop our County list top 5's for no reason other than Jonny H has had a County tick...
Jonny H - Yorkshire:
Albatross - Bempton Cliffs RSPB
Siberian Accentor - Easington
Great Snipe - Sammy’s Point, Spurn
White's Thrush - Spurn
Blue-cheeked Beeeater - Cowden
Jonny tells everyone about the top secret, not to be talked about, secret Yorkshire Lister's League.
DDL - London:
Naumann’s Thrush - Chingford
Pied-billed Grebe - South Norwood Lake
Pine Bunting - Dagenham Chase
Grey-Cheeked Thrush - Northaw Great Wood
Brown Shrike - Staines Moor
Jonny R - Suffolk:
Short-toed Treecreper - Landguard, 25th March 2011
Sandhill Crane - 02nd October 2011 Boyton Marshes
Long-billed Dowitcher - 04th May 2012 Livermere
American Bittern - 08th April 2018, Carlton Marshes
Gull-billed Tern - Alton Water 08th August 2020
Tweets of the week:
15 species of gull in Cornwall!!!
Show-off Hume’s:
3 species of owl together in Cambs! With 4 possible in a visit:
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