I saw a Golden Eagle up there when I was on holiday in northern Scotland back in 2007... spine tingled with awe!
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| Author: | John Harry [ Mon Feb 08, 2010 2:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | North Scotland 28 Jan to 6 Feb 10 |
Expedition with RAFOS to conduct Webs single core counts brought a few lifers and some great year ticks. Highlights from John O' Groats to Cape Wrath were: Many Great Northern, Black Throated and Red Throated Divers in sheltered bays and sea lochs. 21 Slavonian Grebes on one Loch! Many Red-breasted Mergansers Rock Dove (proper!) Couple of Bramblings Black Gulliemots Hooded Crows Golden Eagle 6 Hen Harriers Dipped on a few though - Little Bunting, Crested Tit, White-tailed Eagle, Capercallie, Crossbill and Grouse. The team I was on (there were 3 teams in total covering North and West Scotland) were tasked with the North coast so unless we "bumped" into them, my area was void. Will blog my exploits once organised - even dug out vehicles stuck on a hill (one was a Police van!!) Cheers |
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| Author: | Stephen Routledge [ Mon Feb 08, 2010 3:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: North Scotland 28 Jan to 6 Feb 10 |
Sounds great John!,brings back great memories of my last visit up there in 1995 to twitch the Grey-tailed Tattler at Burghead,we also managed drake King Eider at Lossiemouth and a drake Surf Scoter at Findhorn Bay!.But it is the more common species like rafts of Long-tailed Duck,Velvet Scoter etc that stick in my mind an amazing spectacle.Look forward to reading the Blog. Regards Steve. |
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| Author: | John Harry [ Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: North Scotland 28 Jan to 6 Feb 10 |
Cheers Steve, Found my own Ring-necked Duck too. Blog will follow, however I have 122 tetrads worth of roving records data to enter yet - just started 2 Feb 10 sheets!!!!! Found it quite void of Scoter, but Long-tailed Duck and Gannets were nice. Also found a Shag, Barnacle Goose and Greylag Goose with darviks but failed to read them. Speak soon |
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| Author: | Katherine Birkett [ Sun Feb 14, 2010 9:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: North Scotland 28 Jan to 6 Feb 10 |
I saw a Golden Eagle up there when I was on holiday in northern Scotland back in 2007... spine tingled with awe!
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