Nigel Wheatley @wheretowatch
Author of above book about birding, from The Patch to Papua New Guinea, available at https://t.co/LSwswDbbeb where one review says, 'the best of its type' 👍 …birdsandotherwildlifeintheworld.co.uk Far West Cornwall Joined April 2011-
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Classic patch birding. 'Nothing to report' on repeat for weeks & weeks then bang bang; a sprig of gorse at the top of Cot Valley at 08:30 turns out to be a mega male Golden Oriole which then flew up Cot where a Purple Heron was flying around, before heading off south at 08:45!
I've read this book every winter since it came out and I'm about to finish it again. It's brilliant. Lars Jonsson is not only a great bird artist he has a deep knowledge of birds and writes about it so well. Highly recommended.
The usual Porpoises, some unusual Common Dolphins, and a most unusual Humpback Whale off Cape Cornwall this rare, relatively calm morning in winter 2023-24. The whale drifted slowly north between 10:30 and 11:00.
Many thanks Steve. You've just made my day.
Many thanks Steve. You've just made my day.
A December Sooty Shearwater past Cape Cornwall this morning, and 11 Manx.
Martin Elliott pic of the Pembrokeshire Magnolia Warbler. Original will go to highest email bidder (over £250) by end of Jan '24 . Prints will be available from Martin or London House Studio, £60 if orders before Christmas or £75 thereafter, prices include p&p
There's rarely a dull day #seawatching at Cape Cornwall. Today, a Humpback Whale loafed about on the surface, did a big blow, then dived, just southeast of the offshore stacks called The Brisons, at 10:15. A Perg was perched on said stacks, & a Bonxie was on the sea off the Cape.
I thought it was all over. I was wrong. A fine late flurry of #vismig over Cot Valley, with 1250+ Wood Pigeons, 95+ Stock Doves, 50+ Fieldfares, 50+ Redwings, 50+ Chaffinches, a Reed Bunting and two Swallows, mostly north.
There was a deathly end-of-season silence in Cot Valley this morning (virtually no #vismig ... again!) then a Yellow-browed popped up to make my day. Same place as one on 25th Oct - by bridge to ruins half way down the valley - but probably a new bird.
Great views of Great Shearwaters #seawatching off Cape Cornwall this morning, best in the 15 years I've been here! A patch record of 42 as well, plus 5 Sooties, 13 Manx and a Grey Phal. Mega.
At last, a day without wind in West Penwith! And therefore some much-missed patch #vismig including 110+ Redwings, 87 Fieldfares, 160+ Chaffinches, Brambling, Bullfinch, Reed Bunting, and 700+ Wood Pigeons (with many more inland).
Great write-up Reuben. Honest, straightforward and exciting.
Great write-up Reuben. Honest, straightforward and exciting.
Managed to squeeze in a couple of hours #seawatching at Cape Cornwall 10:00-12:00 when still WNW7 and saw 1 probable Leach's, 10 Arctic Skuas, 5 Sooty Shears, 2 Balearic Shears, 2 GN Divers, 1 Rt Diver, 3 C Scoters, and thousands of Kittiwakes and Razorbills.
Another grand morning on the Cot Valley-Boscregan patch. Not much #vizmig ... apart from a remarkable flock of 16 Grey Herons and a Great White Egret north at 09:40! And grounded migrants included a Lap Bunt, 3 ROuzels and a Brambling.
Ahhh the wonders of #vismig Patch tick Spoonbill E over Boscregan 09:30. Wasn't expecting that! Or the Grey Plov N. Usual birds incl Lap Bunt N, 167 Chaffinches, 25 Siskins & a Merlin. Spooner wasn't bird-of-the-day either - a Barn Owl (rare here) flew out of some ivy by my head!
Still 25+ Cory's Shearwaters foraging off Cape Cornwall. Not much else in three hours in a NW5; 3 Sooties, 7 Arctic Skuas, 1 Arctic Tern and masses of auks, all Razorbills that I took the time to i.d.
The Upland Sand didn't fly over Cot at 09:12 it flew over the same bloody time I heard it (only)!)! And I sometimes walk to Boscregan via Bosorne, sometimes the way I went today. Bah!
The Upland Sand didn't fly over Cot at 09:12 it flew over the same bloody time I heard it (only)!)! And I sometimes walk to Boscregan via Bosorne, sometimes the way I went today. Bah!
Didn't know at the time - just been on @xenocanto - but the unfamiliar call I heard c10x high over Cot Valley at 08:45 & going N seems to have been that of the Upland Sandpiper heard by someone who did know the call going S over Cot at 09:12. Couldn't see the bloody thing either!
Plains-wanderer in daylight!
Plains-wanderer in daylight!
Here's a gif of the weather leading up to the UK's biggest fall of Nearctic passerines. Note how the warm front is propelled forward and condensed with a remarkable geographical correlation to the "epicentre" of the fall (Pembrokeshire) at 6am Tuesday 19th Sept @britbirdweather
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The endless naivety ('enthusiasm') of #patchbirding whereby something notable is elsewhere (in this case, Arctic Terns at Whittingham) so you decide it's definitely 100% worth checking the patch for them (even though they are somewhere else) ...anyway, 1st Swift of the spring. 👍
One for all those who stare at the sea from British & Irish headlands! A Bulwer's Petrel banking and snaking over a calm sea south of Cabo Verde. These things vanish in swells; their ability to change direction is frustratingly adept! #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds
When you're prepping dinner and this lands on the wall outside the kitchen window 😆
@wheretowatch Moussier’s might just get me out of retirement 😜
Human population density around the world. 📽: Tyler Morgan-Wall
Did you hear about the mural of a skua that’s mysteriously appeared on the side of the obs at Spurn? They reckon it could be a Bonksy… Gets coat…
With the season upon us, here's a timely reminder as to what is flying in what month (subject to change) allowing for the British weather! Have a good season everyone. @BDSdragonflies @ScotlandBds @Britnatureguide @NatureUK @BBCSpringwatch
SMOOTH (Common) NEWT - Watercolour on fabriano 5 paper.
OTD 40 years ago: Two-barred Crossbill in the New Forest. It had a 5 year long journey to @bbrc acceptance. I asked one of the 10 rare men what was wrong & and he told me it wasn’t one! It was only after I told him it was photographed, and sent the photo in that it got through.
Imperial Woodpecker is one of the most tragic recent extinctions that no one talks about. Look how it dwarfs Ivory-billed, which in turn dwarfs Pileated. Imagine seeing this burly beast cruising through the long needle pines of northern Mexico.
Have you ever seen Purple glossy starlings?
Birders football match on the Garrison, St Mary's, 1987!
@ScillyMemories @wheretowatch you were playing then but had lost a a couple of minutes off pace
@ScillyMemories @wheretowatch Must have been the drag from all that mullet 😂
White-browed Tit-warbler - another species from yesterday. No matter how many times I see this bird the purple plumage of the male is always something special #BirdsSeenIn2024
He also reminds us of the infinite joy in the everyday more common birds and how if we are not careful we overlook so much
I've read this book every winter since it came out and I'm about to finish it again. It's brilliant. Lars Jonsson is not only a great bird artist he has a deep knowledge of birds and writes about it so well. Highly recommended.
Glimpsed an Arctic-looking Redpoll this morning at a cover crop I’ve been watching nr Broomsthorpe. While trying to relocate this beast of a Rustic Bunting appeared! Pipe-dream winter find & nice way to mark 20 yrs since my Choseley Pine Bunt. Oh, & the poll was a Coues’s! 🙈🍺
Didn’t ever dare dream of finding this in the Philippines but today it happened, Spoonie magic!
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