Great Skua at Whisby NR

Grahame Hopwood · **Posted:** Mon Jul 01, 2013 7:05 pm

Got a phone call from Dean Nicholson late this afternoon to say there had been a report on the Bird info services of a Great Skua at Millennium Green this morning, one of the North Hykeham Pits.

Re-found the Skua on Teal Lake at Whisby Nature Reserve this evening, and still present when we left. No doubt there will be some photos soon in the album.

A good record for the Lincoln area and in any case a first for the Whisby NR/ North Hykeham Pits recording area.

Cheers

Grahame with Dean Nicholson, Andy Sims, Dave Jenkins and Chris Grimshaw

John Clarkson · **Posted:** Mon Jul 01, 2013 9:34 pm

I got an email from John farmer this pm to say that it had been at Millennium Green since 11:00 this morning

John

Graham Catley · **Joined:** Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:20 pm **Posts:** 1667

hope you checked its not a Brown Skua Grahame!

Grahame Hopwood · **Posted:** Mon Jul 01, 2013 11:07 pm

Funnily enough we did consider the southern hemisphere skua taxa! However none of us have any/much experience in southern skuas and it just seemed so unrealistic a thought that we soon dropped that idea.

Grahame

Graham Catley · **Joined:** Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:20 pm **Posts:** 1667

Grahame Hopwood wrote:

Funnily enough we did consider the southern hemisphere skua taxa! However none of us have any/much experience in southern skuas and it just seemed so unrealistic a thought that we soon dropped that idea.

Grahame

Yellow-nosed errrr unrealistic -- but it does look to have good hackles and primary moult presumably makes it a sub-adult; always worth getting some good images though you never know what information may crop up in future; Recent South Polar Skua ID article in BB

Stephen Routledge · **Posted:** Tue Jul 02, 2013 5:15 pm

This was THE day when ALBERT was found at MSQ in 2007!.

Steve.

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Great Skua at Whisby NR

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