News from Nowhere

 Yes indeedy, there's been so much happening its hard to know where to even start!

Firstly, after many years of little to show in the finds department, its a big hats-off to the Proclaimers for banging in their very first kwality find on their new patch (of which more anon) at Garlieston. Evidence below thusly....

A turnstone, yesterday

Moving on, Big Royzah has been getting out and about on patch, in between twitches to Shetland, and even blowing his own trumpet now and again with various wild claims such as pomarine skua  (unvalidated), 8 (count 'em) brent geese flying south, again unvalidated, flyover barnacle goose (whatever that really was) and even a slavonian grebe on the river (as if...)

half a slav, yesterday

Shakeys had a lapland bunting and his first redstart for five years, I heard that much. He's also claiming to be over the near-mythical (for him anyway) 100% barrier and beginning to close in on the Prockies top-spot lead! (Unvalidated).

In between missing almost every possible year tick and quite a few impossible ones, I also bumped into a lap bunt, which is only my 4th on patch I think, thusly

A lap bunt, yesterday

I also managed a fine female pintail yesterday but no shots so it must go down as unvalidated. Basil has mostly been on holidays to far-flung places like Wales, and so has also missed a few bits, but he did get greenfinch yesterday so he was delighted with that (unvalidated).

No news either way from Reg (invalidated).

Thats about the size of it now I think

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