Catching up from the front

Just popping in here to see what's been going on after a subtle nudge from everybody's favourite bent football official. I see The Proclaimers are adding splendid patch ticks like dotterel to their 2017 tally.

Well done the lads!

Nothing quite so grand at The Mall... natch, but a barn owl as I staggered back from the pub a few weeks back, plus some utterly inane forgettable gank before that (can't for the life of me recall what it was... but it's down on the spreadsheet, which is what counts) means that after crunching the numbers puts me on 93.10%

Fablis!

Patch tick-a-roo!

Following  a tip of from the fleet footed Lachan (he has no pseudonym), we nipped up onto our patch earlier today to see a fine dotterel. Patch tick! Just a shame I didn't find it, rather than being beaten to it by some bloke out for a run. But its on the last - I'll update the score once I work out what it all means.

Greenshank

two greenshank on the not so great pool this afternoon.

one more to the tally puts me ahead of Seppy... which is what counts.

Bushveld

Big Royzah goes seawatching

Indeed and he did. And so did I. and we did all right too, considering. And we certainly did all right for gin. and large shearwaters. And we even jammed a wilson's petrel, courtesy of Old Spoons and his incredible watery-but-all-seeing eye. Which was nice.

Seppy, Royzah, Old Spoons & Basil post-wilson's sunshine

Best of all, I added heaps of year ticks to my tally for this year - huzzah!

The Proclaimers on tour

Had the pleasure of the Proclaimers in Wesht Cork for a few days last week - they were over doing some random patch invigilation to ensure that all Wesht Cork participants were playing by the rules.

A good time was had by all, although Craig (or was it Charlie?) fairly got stuck in to the sause on a quietish Galley seawatch...

#Debacle

Things took a turn for the worse when Charlie (or was it Craig?) started looking at ducks on the lake...

No ducks please, its July

All too soon the tour was over, however, its rumoured that a certain dead tap-dancer may be making the rounds next...

Well done Bushvelt

Well done to Bushvelt, and the happy finger of Reg, for the swift. Amazing find.

It has promoted us to update our scores on the doors. Not Done so since March, but very little has happened since then. Highlight without doubt was singing lesser whitethroat back in May. patch tick that i then suppressed. Not that anyone would have cared. But it did bring patch total to a whopping 97 species in total, 66 this year making 91.24%.

Found one of these today...

Thankfully Reg turned up with a camera

A first for the patch

Happy Daze

Bushveld