weekend scores

Both Shakey (lapland bunt) and Fat Paul Scholes (tystie - FFS!) got one back on me yesterday - I'm still out in front but only just!! Where's that pesky coot???

News from Royzah too - he nailed waxwing & tufted duck, leaving him 1 species short of the ton!

Nicht, Niente, Nada...

Nowt,  Nothing since the bullfinches on 17th of October, not even a waxwing!

Over three weeks without a patch tick....

Oh well still seven weeks to go and a dozen species to get...

Bushveld

latest news

No change at the top but waxwing at Folkestone & something well ganky like GND at girdle closes the gap between the top three! This year is going to the wire!

Coming to a Patch Near You This Christmas

139 = 96.53% now where's that feckin Pink-foot!

Swan japes

Took a while to sort out but these distant swans appear to have been Whoopers which, together with today's dugbird, puts me back into second spot on 105.44%

Squeezing The Last Drops

Working all weekend until Sunday afternoon, final hour of light managed to squeeze in a quick sea-watch and add two Little Auk and Black Guillemot, the latter only my 2nd on the patch ever. The following morning after counting 500+ Little Auks I sneaked a juv Sabine's Gull in moving south.

I also need to confess to some suppression, earlier in the year a White-spotted Bluethroat was found on patch and I was invited to assess whether it was twitchable in a difficult area for access with a new land tenant, recently ploughed field and in suitable breeding habitat (long shot but...) news was never issued but I did accidentally see the bird whilst discussing whether to put it out.

Anyway the long and the short of it, 138 and still need Pink-footed Goose!

whopper swan!

Checked the lake earlier - nowt doing. Just checked it again - whooper swan!! Fantastic! 148 for de year now - can I hit 150?