tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54121887831249999232024-03-18T09:48:04.130+00:00Birding Poole Harbour & BeyondStudland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comBlogger934125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-50354103594398760662024-03-13T15:00:00.000+00:002024-03-13T15:33:37.967+00:0010 Mar 24 - A Devasting Fire Reveals Some Old History<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">On 12 Aug 22, a devasting Heath fire started at Studland. Subsequent investigation suggested it was down to a disposable barbeque and campfire. It was a very dry period and there were many warnings up telling people not to start fires of any kind on or near the Heathland. But sadly, there is an irresponsible group within the public, who refuse to follow these warnings or just don't care, as long as they can have their barbeque and drinks as planned.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Looking towards Brands Bay from the top of the Heath</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The fire destroyed about twelve acres of high quality Heathland and clearly burnt very deep in the dry conditions. The National Trust had an old interpretation centre & bird hide at the top of the hill which overlooked Littlesea. That centre was totally destroyed in the fire, with only the bricks and concrete base surviving. While it was rarely used in recent years, it's a shame to see it destroyed, especially, as it provided a good windbreak and it allowed Birders to stand by it without their shape breaking the skyline. It destroyed at least one Dartford Warbler territory, which I generally heard calling at dusk right by the old interpretation centre & bird hide. I will miss their evening calls, albeit I've not been up to the area in the evenings since the fire.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>The remains of the old interpretation centre & bird hide</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The area destroyed also formed part of, or the majority of, the territories for three pairs of Nightjars. Given the mid-August date, then it is likely that the chicks from a first brood should have fledged, however, they can have a second brood and potentially, any nests and chicks would have been lost. While adult Birds can fly from a fire, there is little chance for the Heathland Reptiles or other invertebrates. I've seen a number of the more interesting Heathland Insects in the area in the past, including at least one species of ground-nesting solitary Wasp (which I've never photographed & identified) in the burnt area.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Looking towards Littlesea from the top of the Heath</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Nineteen months on, there is very little signs of recovery. At the time, there were statements that it could take twenty years before this area of Heathland recovers back to its pre-fire state. There were a few shoots of Gorse reappearing suggesting that some roots survived and a few other plants: but I'm not a plant person & couldn't tell you what they are. Other than that, it was just the grassy tracks between the Heath that were in reasonable shape.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Nineteen months on, the only area that has recovered are the grassy tracks</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">I made my first visit to the area, nineteen months after the fire and kept to the main grassy tracks. One of the reasons for visiting was I had heard that there were signs of some of the WW2 trenches that had become visible following the fire. I assume these date back to the post-Dunkirk era when they were dug with the risk of a German invasion. The beach at Studland could have been a potential landing site, which would probably have been lightly defended in Autumn 1940.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>This appears to be the remains of a straight trench facing towards Littlesea: </b>This trench covers the Southern end of Littlesea and potentially the ground looking towards the road</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Looking North along the same trench</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>This looks to be a small machine gun trench pointing towards the Harbour mouth</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>A satellite view of the burnt area shown on Google Maps (with copyright remaining with Google Maps): </b>The trench that was photographed in in the centre of the photo. The potential curved machine gun trench above & to the left of the first trench</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">One of the problems for the fire-fighters was the risk of exploding ordnance caused by the fire. Studland was a live fire exercise area in WW2 and not all the munitions exploded at the time. I did hear that there were a few explosions during the fire. There was a specialist munitions team who spent many weeks after the fire searching the area for munitions that were still left in the ground, before the area was declared safe. It does make me wonder how many other shells are still buried in the rest of Studland.</span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comStudland, Poole Harbour, Dorset, UK50.6419069 -1.952763122.331673063821157 -37.1090131 78.952140736178848 33.2034869tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-17411452952748544212024-03-05T17:00:00.031+00:002024-03-05T21:48:28.052+00:0014 Dec 23 - A Photostudy Of A Common Species<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">I was checking the Waders and Wildfowl from the Brands Bay hide, when three Goldcrests appeared on the Gorse within a metre of the front of the hide. I couldn't resist taking some photos.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Goldcrest</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Goldcrest</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Goldcrest</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Goldcrest</b></span></span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comBrand's Bay, Studland, Poole Harbour, Dorset, UK50.6714274 -1.974660520.112099046569107 -37.1309105 81.230755753430884 33.1815895tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-39819259631456256562024-03-01T17:00:00.372+00:002024-03-01T17:00:00.137+00:0017 Jan 23 - The Antarctica Trip - Leaving Port Stanley, Falklands<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">It was time to leave Port Stanley. Personally, I would have liked a full day around the area. But the distances meant if we left at lunchtime, we would be able to enjoy two landings on the first day in South Georgia, whereas, a full day in the Falklands, would mean losing a landing in South Georgia. It's always a compromise in planning landings in the Southern Oceans, before the ship has to plan for any adverse weather. Another factor is the landings need to be booked months in advance with the South Georgia authorities to ensure that there wouldn't be two expedition ships looking to land passengers at the same location on the same day. Only one hundred passengers are allowed to be ashore at any time, which was fine as that allowed all our passengers to land together. But some of the larger ships have twice that number of passengers and their landings have to be staggered and shortened. The logistics of having two ships at the same location would be far more complex to manage and most importantly there would be a bigger impact on the wildlife.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>One of the outer bays in the channel leading to Port Stanley: </b>I was scanning all the bays and beaches as we left Port Stanley, in the hope of a Commerson's Dolphin. One of the Peale’s Dolphins is just visible in front of the beach</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">As we sailed out of the bay leading to Port Stanley, I picked up a pod of distant Dolphins. They were near to the beach (in the previous photo) and they clearly did not wanting to come & check out us. Initially, all we could see were they had prominent dorsal fins. There are several potential Dolphin species in the Falklands: Risso's Dolphin, Bottlenose Dolphin, Dusky Dolphin, Hourglass Dolphin, Peale's Dolphin, Southern Rightwhale Dolphin and Commerson's Dolphin. The first two species are right on the edge of their extensive world range.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Peale's Dolphin: </b>All it is possible to say on this view is it is either a Dusky Dolphin or a Peale's Dolphin</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Very quickly most of these species can be eliminated. The colouration and shape rules out a Risso's Dolphin. The lack of a distinctive beak and the patterning rules out Bottlenose Dolphin. Hourglass Dolphin can be ruled out as they don't have the well-marked patterning on the sides of the body. Southern Rightwhale Dolphin is very distinctive black and white marked species and it doesn't have a dorsal fin. Finally, Commerson's Dolphin has a very broad-rounded dorsal fin & looks more like a Porpoise, than a classical Dolphin. This just leaves Dusky Dolphin or Peale's Dolphin as the only likely species.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Peale's Dolphin: </b>The dorsal fin shape looks different as it starts to go under</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Peale's Dolphin: </b>Further into the dive</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Peale's Dolphin: </b>Another individual came up at the left hand side of my view through the camera. It seems to have a pale stripe behind the dorsal fin</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Finally, one of the Peale's Dolphins jumped out of the water and it was possible to see the dark facial pattern which confirmed this was a Peale's Dolphin.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Peale's Dolphin: </b></span>The dark facial pattern, pale sides to the body and lack of a pronounced beak rules out the other candidates</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Dusky Dolphin: </b></span>One of the Dusky Dolphins from the first evening in the Beagle Channel which shows the short beak, but the pale stripes that continue through the face (14 Jan 23)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">We didn't see any other species of note until we reached the open sea. Here we were greeted some large feeding flocks of Sooty Shearwaters.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Sooty Shearwater: </b>A large feeding flock of Sooty Shearwaters</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Sooty Shearwater: </b>Another party of Sooty Shearwaters on the sea just before we reached them</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Sooty Shearwater: </b>About one hundred thousand pairs of Sooty Shearwaters breed on the nearby Kidney Island. They also breed on the temperate & Subantarctic Islands from South Chile & the Falklands to South Australia & Tasmania, Macquarie & the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The numbers of Seabirds quickly dropped off as we left the coastal parts of the Falklands, but we stuck it out on deck anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Southern Royal Albatross: </b>Southern Royal Albatrosses can be separated from the similar looking Northern Royal Albatross by the narrow white leading edge to the wings</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Southern Royal Albatross: </b>A second individual. This is the nominate epomophora subspecies of Royal Albatross according to Clements. The other subspecies is Northern Royal Albatross which IOC split and is another future armchair Tick when I switch to IOC taxonomy</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Southern Royal Albatross: </b>A third individual. This is an immature & I think it's a 1st year individual. Adult Southern Royal Albatrosses have a white band on the inner secondary coverts which narrows as it reaches the bend in the wing: this area remains black in Northern Royal Albatrosses</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Southern Royal Albatross: </b>The third individual. Southern Royal Albatrosses breed on the Campbell & Auckland islands and Northern Royal Albatross breed on Chatham Islands & New Zealand's South Island. Both Royal Albatrosses range throughout the Southern Oceans</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Snowy Wandering Albatross: </b>This is a Snowy Wandering Albatross and it is the nominate exulans subspecies which breeds on South Georgia. Clements lumps all the Wandering Albatross subspecies, whereas, IOC splits Wandering Albatross as Snowy Wandering Albatross, Antipodes Wandering Albatross, <a href="https://birdingpooleharbourandbeyond.blogspot.com/search/label/Tristan%20Wandering%20Albatross" target="_blank">Tristan Wandering Albatross</a> & Amsterdam Wandering Albatross.
This is a third cycle which I think corresponds to second (Southern) summer based up the more commonly used UK moult terminology</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Soft-plumaged Petrel: </b>We saw the first Soft-plumaged Petrel of the trip & one of my favourite Pterodroma Petrels</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Soft-plumaged Petrel: </b>This monotypic species breeds on the subtropical to subantarctic islands including Tristan da Cunha & Gough Islands, Marion, Crozet, Kerguelen & Amsterdam islands in the South Indian Ocean, to Maatsuyker Island, to the South of Tasmania and Macquarie & the Antipodes Islands to the South of New Zealand</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">We would have two more full days at sea before we reached South Georgia.</span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comStanley, Falklands-51.6927517 -57.86196-80.002985536178841 -93.01821000000001 -23.382517863821157 -22.705710000000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-12876822141656348392024-02-27T15:30:00.000+00:002024-02-27T15:40:32.500+00:0017 Jan 23 - The Antarctica Trip - Some Gorgeous Geese<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">My cabin mate, Steve Preddy, & I teamed up to search for some Ruddy-headed Geese when we got off the Plancius in Port Stanley. We didn't have any specific sites, but asked as the tourist information & they quickly directed up to an old boy who had lived all of his life on the Falklands and had a beaten up old Land Rover. He had a few ideas for sites we could try & we were quickly heading off towards the airport area. It was good to bump into a couple of Two-banded Plovers and a South American Snipe.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Two-banded Plover: </b>This monotypic species occurs in South Chile & Argentina, as well as, the Falklands. They winter as far North as South Brazil</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Two-banded Plover</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>South American Snipe</b>This is the magellanica subspecies which occurs from central Chile & Argentina to Tierra del Fuego & the Falklands. When I convert my World List to using IOC taxonomy, I will get a bonus Tick as I saw the other subspecies of South American Snipe at the two lagoons I visited near Buenos Aires earlier in the trip. IOC calls this species Magellanic Snipe and the other species is called as Pantanal Snipe</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The airport sites didn't work out, but we were undaunted and carried on looking on rough tracks to the South of Port Stanley.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>One of the beaches on our search for some Ruddy-headed Geese</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">We carried on searching to the South of Port Stanley and eventually bumped into a party of seven Ruddy-headed Geese in a larger party of Upland Geese.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Ruddy-headed Goose: </b>This monotypic species is resident on the Falklands. They also breed in the South of Patagonia & Tierra del Fuego and this population migrates North as far as Southern Buenos Aires</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Ruddy-headed Goose: </b>They are a bit smaller than Upland Geese, however, that might be tricky to figure out if only one species is present</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Ruddy-headed Goose: </b>Both sexes have similar markings and they have finer black barring on the body which continues further up the neck and a very conspicuous ruddy coloured vent</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Ruddy-headed Goose</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Ruddy-headed Goose</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Ruddy-headed Goose</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Ruddy-headed Goose: </b>A more appropriate name might be Ruddy-vented Goose as this is the most obvious feature, especially at a distance</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Upland Goose: </b>Pair. Female Upland Geese do not have the ruddy coloured vent and have bolder black barring on the body. It's is also easier if they are accompanied by a similar-sized male</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Upland Goose: </b>Male. The males are very obvious</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Having succeeded on the Wild Goose hunt, we were dropped back in Port Stanley. It didn't take long for either of us to agree to a coffee & some celebratory cake in one of the local cafes. Excellent cake eaten & coffee drunk, there was time for a quick look along the waterfront of Port Stanley.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>The Cathedral: </b>It looks about a big as large town church. However, the population of Port Stanley is only about two and a half thousand people</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Having closely followed the Falklands campaign whilst at university, then it was good to see the respect and recognition for the guys involved in liberating the Falklands.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>The War Memorial</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>The War Memorial</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>The War Memorial</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Memorial to HMS Coventry: </b>Having subsequently worked on the IT systems and spent many days onboard some of her sister ships, HMS Liverpool, HMS Cardiff, HMS Edinburgh, HMS Glasgow, HMS Nottingham & HMS Exeter, then this memorial to HMS Coventry felt special to me. The lessons learnt from the Exocet attacks on HMS Coventry were quickly responded to by the Royal Navy. Some of my colleagues had already implemented the design changes requested by the Royal Navy from those lessons learnt, before I had joined Ferranti</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Winners of a Local Art Competition: </b>There were a number of large posters of the winners of a local photo competition. This one complemented the remembrance of some of the sacrifices of the Falklands campaign</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Maggie Thatcher: </b>Thatcher is clearly a decisive figure to anybody who lived through the period of when she was Prime Minister. She was a disaster for the coal mining communities, union recognition etc. Many of today's problems with the railways, water and other public companies in the 1980s are a result of her government's failed privatisation plans to make money for her friends at the country's expense. However, the one thing she was right on was her backing for the Falklands campaign & it's good to see this statue in Port Stanley. It's the only place there should be a statue to Thatcher in my opinion</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Brunel's famous SS Great Britain was left abandoned near Port Stanley in 1886, until it was rescued, returned to the UK in 1970, renovated and ultimately turned into the world class museum it is today.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>SS Great Britain's Mizen Mast: </b>I wasn't aware that part of the Mizen mast from the SS Great Britain had stayed in Port Stanley, but it seems appropriate that it did</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>SS Great Britain's Mizen Mast: </b>She was the largest ship in the world when she was launched in 1843</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Signs like this mean 'you are a long way from everywhere else'</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">On the far side of the bay are several white-painted stone monuments to the ships that have long served and protected the Falklands. There are similar painted signs on St Helena.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Protector: </b>The current HMS Protector (A173) has been the temporary replacement for the Royal Navy ice patrol ship HMS Endurance since 2013. However, these stones were laid to pay tribute to the previous HMS Protector which supported the Falklands in the fifties and sixties</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>HMS Protector (A173): </b>Off South Haven, Studland (20 Aug 15)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Endurance: </b>These stones pay tribute to the Royal Navy ice patrol ship HMS Endurance (A171) which served the Falklands from 1991 to 2008</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Dumbarton Castle: </b>HMS Dumbarton Castle (P265) was a Royal Navy offshore patrol vessel tasked with protection of the offshore assets of the UK including the Falklands between 1982 and 2010</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Clyde: </b>HMS Clyde (P257) was another Royal Navy offshore patrol vessel tasked with protection of the offshore assets of the UK between 2006 and 2019 and she replaced the HMS Dumbarton Castle in the Falklands. She spent nearly all of her working life in the Southern Oceans</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Barracouta: </b>This HMS Barracouta patrolled the islands in the early nineteenth Century</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">We headed back to the quay to find that there had been a couple of Commerson's Dolphins around the quay area earlier in the morning. Unfortunately, they had passed through and a good look failed to relocate them. I decided to grab an early zodiac to the Plancius as it would give me a better elevated position to continue my search for some Commerson's Dolphins. This provided a better viewing position, but I was still unsuccessful. Two Night Herons distracted me while I was waiting for a zodiac to the Plancius.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Night Heron: </b>This is the falklandicus subspecies which is endemic to the Falklands</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Night Heron: </b>A second individual</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>South American Sealion: </b>The front two are South American Sealions. I'm uncertain whether the back two are also South American Sealions</span></span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comPort Stanley, Falklands-51.6927517 -57.86196-80.002985536178841 -93.01821000000001 -23.382517863821157 -22.705710000000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-13964637194239224112024-02-23T16:00:00.254+00:002024-02-23T16:00:00.149+00:0017 Jan 23 - The Antarctica Trip - Arriving Into Port Stanley, Falklands<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">I was up early as we were still sailing around the coast North of Port Stanley on our way into the capital of the Falklands. There was a constant movement of Sooty Shearwaters past the Plancius, but few were close. This wasn't unexpected, given about one hundred thousand pairs breed on the nearby Kidney Island.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Sooty Shearwater: </b>This Shearwater which is familiar to many British Birders, breeds on the temperate & Subantarctic Islands from South Chile & the Falklands to South Australia & Tasmania, Macquarie & the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Early morning sailing along the coast towards Port Stanley</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">At one point, a couple of Blackish Oystercatchers flew out to check us out & kept circling around the ship. This was unexpected, given we were a few miles offshore. They provided some opportunities for some nice photographs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Blackish Oystercatcher: </b>This monotypic species occurs from North Peru to Tierra del Fuego & the Falklands. Some winter in Uruguay</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Blackish Oystercatcher</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Brown Skua: </b>This is the nominate antarcticus subspecies which breeds on the Falklands & South East Argentina and winters off the South East of South America</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Brown Skua</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">As we entered the outer bays leading to Port Stanley we encountered feeding parties of Imperial Shags. I was on the lookout for a pod of Commerson's Dolphins, which are an inshore Dolphin & the Falklands are a hotspot for this species: but sadly, we didn't see any.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>There were a number of sandy beaches as we entered the channel to Port Stanley</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Imperial Shag: </b>This is the albiventer subspecies which is endemic to the Falklands. The nominate subspecies occurs on the islands & coasts of South Chile & Argentina</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>The Cape Pembroke Lighthouse</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">As we turned into the final approach to Port Stanley, we could see the Lady Elizabeth at the end of the bay. As I kid, I visited the SS Great Britain in Bristol and revisited it about twenty years ago. It is a superb ship to visit. It had been left abandoned near Port Stanley until it was rescued, returned to the UK, renovated and now forms a magnificent museum to both the ship and Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Sadly, the Lady Elizabeth, which was launched thirty six years after the SS Great Britain, wasn't as famous. She was launched in 1879. In 1912, she was transporting lumber from Vancouver to Mozambique, when she encountered severe weather and was damaged just off Cape Horn. She limped into Port Stanley for repairs, but hit a rock as she approached Port Stanley and started to sink. Ultimately, she was declared unseaworthy and left as a coal hulk. In 1936, she broke her moorings and was washed to her current position. It has been suggested to try making her into a museum in the Falklands, but those ideas haven't come to anything.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>The Lady Elizabeth: </b>It's sad seeing a historic ship slowly falling to bits</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Modern Fishing Boats: </b>The Falklands licence fishing boats to fish in Falkland waters and this provides good money for the Falkland government</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">As we approached our anchoring point in the channel near Port Stanley, there were several groups of Steamerducks. Checking the photos confirmed that all of them have the really short wings which confirmed they were the endemic Falkland Steamerducks.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Falkland Steamerduck: </b>Male</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Falkland Steamerduck: </b>Female</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Port Stanley</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Port Stanley</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>I think this is Sapper Hill: </b>If so, it was the last hill that needed clearing by the Marines and Welsh Guards before Port Stanley could be captured in the Falklands campaign</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>The sign confirms we are now officially in the Falkland Islands</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">We were finally anchored, the passports had been checked and we were able to board the zodiacs to have a few hours around Port Stanley. More of that in the next Blog Post.</span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comPort Stanley, Falklands-51.6927517 -57.86196-80.002985536178841 -93.01821000000001 -23.382517863821157 -22.705710000000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-12704014622519204392024-02-19T17:00:00.334+00:002024-02-19T17:00:00.139+00:0016 Jan 23 - The Antarctica Trip - The Original Punk<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The last Blog Post focused on the Black-browed Albatross colony on West Point Island: which contains about two thousand pairs. Additionally, there are around five hundred pairs of Rockhopper Penguins in the colony.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Rockhopper Penguin: </b>This is the nominate chrysocome subspecies which occurs on the Cape Horn Archipelago & the Falklands. There is a second subspecies which occurs on the Kerguelen Islands & New Zealand's Subantarctic Islands</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Rockhopper Penguin: </b>Like the Magellanic Penguins and Gentoo Penguins on Carcass Island, they do a lot of sitting around and waiting when they are in the colony, after they have fed their youngsters</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Tristan Penguin: </b>The closely related Tristan Penguin is now split from Rockhopper Penguin & it occurs on Gough Island, the Tristan da Cunha Islands, St Paul & Amsterdam islands. This is also called Moseley's Rockhopper Penguin. They are slightly larger than Rockhopper Penguins with a larger and denser yellow crest. Gough Island (10 Apr 18)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Rockhopper Penguin: </b>The raised nests of the Black-browed Albatrosses are perfect to stop the two species getting too close to each other as the Rockhopper Penguins walk through the colony</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Rockhopper Penguin: </b>The original Punk</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Rockhopper Penguin: </b>Juveniles. A pair will normally have two chicks</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">I'm a big Penguin fan, so I won't apologise for a few more Rockhopper Penguin photos.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Rockhopper Penguin</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Rockhopper Penguin</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Rockhopper Penguin</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Rockhopper Penguin</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">We saw a few Long-tailed Meadowlarks on the walk back to the settlement.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Long-tailed Meadowlark: </b>Adult</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Long-tailed Meadowlark: </b>Adult</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Long-tailed Meadowlark: </b>Sometimes I managed to take a really nice photograph</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">All too soon we were back at the settlement & catching the zodiacs back to the Plancius.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>The Settlement Beach: </b>Like the historic farms in Tierra del Fuego, the farm buildings are wooden</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>At least we had a jetty to board the zodiac from</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">There was still time for some seawatching as we sailed for Port Stanley before dinner.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Southern Giant Petrel: </b>The pale green tip is hard to see. However, it is clearly not the dark dull red tip of a Northern Giant Petrel</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Imperial Shag: </b>This is the albiventer subspecies which is endemic to the Falklands. The nominate subspecies occurs on the islands & coasts of South Chile & Argentina</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>South American Tern: </b>They breed along the coasts & islands of Southern South America & the Falklands</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">One of the good things about visiting Antarctica in Jan, is there are still over two hours of good birding light after dinner to allow some more Cetacean & seawatching. We were away from the coast by the time we had eaten. There were usually a few hardy souls joining me on deck in the late evenings. We didn't see anything surprising on the Seabird side that evening, but two Sei Whales and another three unidentified Fin or Sei Whales were nice to see.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Sei Whale: </b>The large size and prominent dorsal fin limits the options to either a Fin Whale or a Sei Whale. The shape of the dorsal fin confirms this is a Sei Whale</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Sei Whale: </b>The obvious kink in the Dorsal Fin confirms this is a Sei Whale: it would be a gentle constant curve in a Fin Whale</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Sei Whale: </b>This photo was taken three minutes later when it resurfaced. A second individual had just blown before going under</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">I went to bed with the alarm set for an early start to get some seawatching in as we approached our landing in Port Stanley.</span></div>Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comWest Point Island, Falklands-51.3517979 -60.697738399999992-79.662031736178847 -95.853988399999992 -23.041564063821156 -25.541488399999992tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-86017872620277478352024-02-15T16:30:00.423+00:002024-02-15T16:30:00.139+00:0016 Jan 23 - The Antarctica Trip - Amy The Albatross<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">We had enjoyed our first landing at Carcass Island on West Falkland & there was a second landing lined up for us that afternoon at the nearby West Point Island. The plan was to walk a mile over the island to the West side of the island where there was a Black-browed Albatross colony. It was nice to be able to stretch our legs again on the Falklands.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>West Point Island: </b>We landed in the bay in the East & ended up at the Black-browed Albatross colony at Devil's Nose. It is another relatively small island being just over three and a half miles in length</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>The final approach of the Plancius towards the settlement</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>The West Point Island settlement: </b>It is a privately owned island that is run as a sheep farm and it is also a popular destination for cruise ships. The path to the Black-browed Albatross colony goes up the hill in the left of this photo</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">We were greeted on the beach by this delightful Kelp Goose family.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Kelp Goose: </b>Male</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Kelp Goose: </b>Female</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Kelp Goose: </b>Another female with the next generation</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Kelp Goose: </b>It's good to see this male is looking after the family. Normally, a bright white male would be a liability in looking after chicks, but it seems to work well with these gorgeous Geese</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">This UK flag was flying over the settlement. In 2013, the Falkland Islands Government asked its people whether they wished to remain a self-governing British Overseas Territory. In the referendum that followed, over 99% of Islanders voted to retain the Islands’ links to the UK. An observer mission from six countries, including five OAS states, oversaw that referendum. They gave their firm endorsement of the process, as free and fair. The people of the Falkland Islands have made their wishes clear. They do not want to be incorporated into Argentina. Likewise, they make it very clear that the UK has no mandate to negotiate with Argentina on the future of their home. The islanders position is very clear, so it is sad to see the Argentinian president who was elected at the end of 2023, making comments about Argentina's right to own the Falklands.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>The settlement's flag: </b>A 99% free & fair vote in favour of remaining a British Overseas Territory is a percentage that is even higher than the elections that Russia rigs</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>The start of the walk: </b>It looks steep, but it wasn't a hard walk to the other side of the island. However, the islanders were doing Land Rover rides for those passengers who found it a struggle</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">There were several photogenic Dark-faced Ground-tyrants on the walk to the Black-browed Albatross colony.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Dark-faced Ground-tyrant: </b>This is the maclovianus subspecies which is a Falkland endemic</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Dark-faced Ground-tyrant: </b>The other subspecies occurs in South Chile & Argentina and they winter on the coast as far as North Peru & Uruguay</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Dark-faced Ground-tyrant: </b>Ground-tyrants are part of the large Tyrant Flycatcher family</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Dark-faced Ground-tyrant: </b>The Ground-tyrants occupy the same niche as the Old World Wheatears</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The landings were organised so either the even or odd cabins were allowed to board the zodiacs first. Steve Preddy & I were in the later zodiacs and we were further slowed down by the Dark-faced Ground-tyrants. What we hadn't appreciated was that when we arrived at the Black-browed Albatross colony, was that there were only a limited number of viewpoints overlooking the colony & the best ones were already occupied. Most people were considerate & taking photographs before moving on to let others have a chance. But the only good position in the first part of the colony was occupied by a Dutch togger, who in true togger fashion not only refused to allow others to have a chance of photographs, but was proud to inform everybody that he wasn't prepared to move. I was happy to give him a taste of his own medicine on the occasions he appeared on the bridge wing & thought he had the right to occupy the best places to look forward. Given that he wasn't going to look for Birds or Cetaceans, then that was another reason to not give up a good spot. Fortunately, He was one of the few anti-social passengers on the Plancius.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Black-browed Albatross: </b>There are about two thousands pairs of Black-browed Albatrosses nesting on West Point Island. The colony has a good breeze through the valley, which helps the Albatrosses get airborne</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The First Black-browed Albatross was affectionately nicknamed Albert by all the Birders who headed to Hermaness, the most Northerly point accessible in the UK, to see it. Albert returned to the Gannet colony from 1972 to 1995. I think that any female Black-browed Albatrosses should now be called Amy: albeit their eyebrows are not overdone as on their late namesake.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Black-browed Albatross: </b>No prizes for how they got their name</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Black-browed Albatross: </b>Also, no prizes for why I think Amy is an appropriate nickname</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Black-browed Albatross: </b>The path along the edge of the colony is a reasonable distance from the colony and it is not possible to get closer. Note, that you needed to get closer as my 100 - 400 mm lens was perfect for some excellent photographs. This was taken with the lens set to 135 mm. This photo is uncropped, except for narrowing it a bit to my standard 1 x 1.2 format</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Black-browed Albatross: </b>We were close enough to witness some Albatross courtship</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Black-browed Albatross: </b>The nests are tall and have probably been home to many youngsters over the generations</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Black-browed Albatross: </b>Hopefully these chicks are large enough to look after themselves from predators at this age</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Black-browed Albatross: </b>The nest is only just big enough for a parent to sit on</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">There was a steady stream of Black-browed Albatrosses flying into the colony to keep me happy trying to get some flight photos.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Black-browed Albatross: </b>Starting the approach</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Black-browed Albatross</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Black-browed Albatross</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Black-browed Albatross</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Black-browed Albatross</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Black-browed Albatross</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The local Striated Caracaras and Turkey Vultures weren't far from the colony.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Striated Caracara: </b>This Striated Caracara was keeping an eye out for a potential meal in the colony</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Turkey Vulture: </b>I'm continuing with my strategy of not having a decent photo of this common Latin American species</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The Black-browed Albatrosses share the colony with the local punks, but I will leave them to the next Blog Post.</span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comWest Point Island, Falklands-51.3483179 -60.686337900000012-79.65855173617885 -95.842587900000012 -23.038084063821152 -25.530087900000012tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-16198141765944987972024-02-11T16:00:00.000+00:002024-02-11T16:00:00.145+00:0016 Jan 23 - The Antarctica Trip - Landbirds On Carcass Island In West Falkland<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">We had enjoyed a good start to the landing on Carcass Island in West Falkland. There had been a good selection of photogenic species on the beach, including the two Falkland endemic species for the islands: Falkland Steamerducks and Cobb's Wren. Additionally, we had visited the Penguin colonies and see nice views of Magellanic Penguins and Gentoo Penguins. Finally, it was time for the two and a half mile walk to the settlement across the grasslands of the island.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>A panoramic view of the bay and the settlement</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>The settlement has the largest area of trees on the island</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">We saw a few of the other island resident species as we walked to the settlement.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Sedge Wren: </b>This is the falklandicus subspecies which is endemic to the Falklands</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Sedge Wren</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>White-bridled Finch: </b>This is the nominate melanodera subspecies which is endemic to the Falklands. It was a nice bonus Tick, as it's not a species I had seen on the South American mainland: as most records are from parts of Argentina & Chile that I haven't visited</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>White-bridled Finch: </b>The other subspecies occurs in the llanos of South Chile & Argentina to Tierra del Fuego</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Long-tailed Meadowlark: </b>This is the falklandicus subspecies which is endemic to the Falklands</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Long-tailed Meadowlark: </b>There are two other subspecies: one occurs in South Chile & South Argentina to Tierra del Fuego and the other occurs in North West Argentina</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">In addition to the every present Brown Skuas, the island's Birds have to keep an eye out for Turkey Vultures and the Striated Caracaras.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Turkey Vulture: </b>This is the jota subspecies which occurs from the Pacific coast of Ecuador to Tierra del Fuego & the Falklands</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">There was some excellent homemade cakes and hot drinks at the settlement. With the largest area of trees on the island, it was no surprise that there were a few other Passerines around the settlement. It was also where we saw the Striated Caracaras.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Striated Caracara: </b>Adults have a yellow orange crop when they have eaten well</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Striated Caracara: </b>It's good to see somebody is studying these Striated Caracaras: this individual has a numbered colour ring on its leg</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Striated Caracara: </b>This monotypic species occurs in Tierra del Fuego, on the neighbouring Staten & Navarino Islands, as well as, the Falklands</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Striated Caracara: </b>Immatures have a whitish crop</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Striated Caracara: </b>One of the things about Birds on remote islands is they adapt to finding food wherever it occurs. I don't think I've seen a mainland Caracara on a beach before</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Striated Caracara</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Austral Thrush: </b>An adult showing the result of the breeding season on this rugged island. This is the nominate falcklandii subspecies which is endemic to the Falklands</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Austral Thrush: </b>Juveniles have spotted breasts and look quite different from the adults</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Black-chinned Siskin: </b>This monotypic species occurs from central Chile & South Argentina to Tierra del Fuego the Falklands</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">All too soon we were being encouraged to leave the remaining cakes and head to the jetty, so we could get the zodiacs back to the Plancius. However, the sooner we were onboard, the sooner the ship could depart for the short journey to our afternoon landing on West Point Island.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Rock Shag: </b>This monotypic species occurs on the coasts of Chile, Argentina & the Falklands</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Southern Elephant Seal: </b>They have a wide range in Subantarctic waters. There are three main ranges in the Atlantic, Indian Oceans and New Zealand Subantarctic waters. In the Atlantic, they breed on the Valdes Peninsula in Argentina, the Falklands & South Georgia. In the Indian Ocean they breed on the Kerguelen Islands, the Crozet Islands, Marion and Prince Edward Islands, Heard & Amsterdam Islands. The third subpopulation is found on Macquarie Island & the New Zealand Subantarctic islands. Additionally, a few breed in Antarctica</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Southern Elephant Seal</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Southern Elephant Seal</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>It was a short ride back to the Plancius</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>We had a dry jetty for the return journey: </b>Oceanwide provide all passengers with the loan of insulated wellies, so wet landings are not a problem</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">I grabbed a coffee, skipped lunch & stayed on deck in the hope of seeing a pod of Commerson's Dolphins. Sadly, I was unsuccessful. Still I didn't need lunch after several portions of chocolate cake.</span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comCarcass Island, Falklands-51.2804258 -60.5631026-79.590659636178856 -95.719352600000008 -22.970191963821158 -25.4068526tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-34784891107407430642024-02-07T15:30:00.000+00:002024-02-07T15:30:00.152+00:0016 Jan 23 - The Antarctica Trip - The Carcass Island Welcome Committee
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The previous Blog Post covered the welcome from some of the Birds on the beach as we landed on Carcass Island. However, I've left the stars of the welcome committee which were the Penguins. Who doesn't like a Penguin.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Magellanic Penguin: </b>I really should have taken a photo of a zodiac of punters walking the other way</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Magellanic Penguin: </b>The welcome committee weren't ready yet</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Magellanic Penguin: </b>That's better</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Magellanic Penguin: </b>They are a monotypic species which occurs on the Patagonian coasts & nearby Staten Island, the Falklands & the Chilean Juan Fernandez Islands</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Magellanic Penguins nest in burrows which help to protect the chicks from opportunistic Skuas and Caracaras.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Magellanic Penguin: </b>Just chilling</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Magellanic Penguin</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Magellanic Penguin: </b>Youngster with a sleeping parent</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Magellanic Penguin: </b>You can tell the ones that have recently been in their burrow, by their dirty chests</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The other Penguin species that were breeding on Carcass Island were the Gentoo Penguins. Unlike the burrow-nesting Magellanic Penguins, they nest in colonies. They breed on many islands where it wouldn't be possible to burrow into the ground and so they build a small nest of stones.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Gentoo Penguin: </b>Adult. This is the nominate papua subspecies which breeds in the Beagle Channel, on Staten Island off the coast of Tierra del Fuego & the Falklands</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Gentoo Penguin: </b>A lot of the life of a Penguin during the breeding season seems to be just standing or lying around. But they will be waiting for their partner to return which could be many hours or even a day or two, depending on how close the fish are to the colony</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Gentoo Penguin: </b>They will also be keeping an eye on the youngsters, but these youngsters are probably big enough to look after themselves from the Skuas</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Gentoo Penguin: </b>Youngster</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>The Gentoo Penguin colony</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>The guides land first & mark out areas where it is safe to photograph the wildlife without pressuring them. One of the staff is there in the red jacket to ensure the toggers don't misbehave</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>The Penguins of Carcass Island: </b>An illustrated guide by the farm buildings: Magellanic Penguin, Gentoo Penguin & King Penguin</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The Penguins always had to keep an eye out for the local Brown Skuas.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Brown Skua: </b>This is the nominate antarcticus subspecies which breeds on the Falklands & South East Argentina and winters off the South East of South America</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Brown Skua: </b>Incubating the next generation</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Brown Skua: </b>Head & shoulders</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Brown Skua: </b>They are as acrobatic as any of the Skuas</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Brown Skua</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">It's always a good landing when you get close to Penguins.</span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comCarcass Island, Falklands-51.2804258 -60.5631026-79.590659636178856 -95.719352600000008 -22.970191963821158 -25.4068526tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-15298472049960743392024-02-03T11:00:00.000+00:002024-02-03T13:51:37.412+00:0016 Jan 23 - The Antarctica Trip - A Welcome On Carcass Island's Beach<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The plan for the day was for two landings in West Falkland: Carcass Island and West Point Island. Plans from the previous evening in the Southern Ocean are always subject to last minute change due to the weather, but the weather was fine and our two landings proceeded without any problems.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Carcass Island and West Point are located in the North of West Falkland</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The first landing was on Carcass Island, which was named after HMS Carcass which first mapped the island in 1766. It is just over six by one and a half miles in size and is mainly low duneland and grassland, with a couple of low hills which reach to 220 metres. It is a privately owned island and is run as a sheep farm. However, as Cats and Rats never reached the island, it has retained a good selection of Birds. Because of its good wildlife, the island is visited every two or three days by expedition ships during the tourist season.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>A close up of Carcass and West Point Islands</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Carcass Island: </b>We landed on Dyke Beach. Although it was only two and a half miles to the settlement with the added attraction of tea, coffee and homemade cakes, it took us the majority of the morning to get there: as there were so many subjects wanting to be photographed</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Sailing into Port Pattison Bay at Carcass Island</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>It was a calm sea for our first zodiac landing</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>We had a mile and a half ride in the zodiacs to cross the bay</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">There were plenty of Steamerducks in the bay as we sailed in and the zodiacs were unloaded. There are two species of Steamerducks in the Falklands: the flightless Falkland Steamerduck and Flying Steamerduck.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Falkland Steamerduck: </b>All the ones I photographed had the short wings indicating they were the flightless Falkland Steamerducks. I didn't see any Flying Steamerducks when I checked my photos</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Falkland Steamerduck: </b>This monotypic species is endemic to the Falklands</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Falkland Steamerduck: </b>Female and Male. They are a large Duck with very small wings and clearly they have lost the power of flight</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Falkland Steamerduck: </b>Male and Female</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Falkland Steamerduck: </b>Male</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Crested Duck: </b>This is the nominate specularioides subspecies which occurs from central Chile & Argentina to Tierra del Fuego & the Falklands</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>The beach was reminiscent of the beaches of the Scottish Western Isles</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Kelp Goose: </b>Male. This is the malvinarum subspecies which is restricted to the Falklands. The nominate subspecies occurs in coastal South Argentina & Chile to Tierra del Fuego</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Kelp Goose: </b>Male</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Kelp Goose: </b>Female. The sexes are very easy to tell apart</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Upland Goose: </b>Male. This is the leucoptera subspecies which is restricted to the Falklands. The nominate subspecies occurs in South Chile & Argentina and winters North to central Chile & North Argentina</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Upland Goose: </b>Female</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Blackish Oystercatcher: </b>This monotypic species occurs from North Peru to Tierra del Fuego & the Falklands. Some winter in Uruguay</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Magellanic Oystercatcher: </b>This is another monotypic species which occurs from South central Chile & Argentina to the Cape Horn Archipelago & the Falklands</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The first thing we are meant to do on landing is to take off & stow the lifejackets. But this was hard to do when we were greeting on the beach by the endemic Cobb's Wren and endemic subspecies of Blackish Cincloides. My life jacket was eventually stowed after I had finished photographing them. We hadn't left the beach and we had already seen the two Falkland endemic species for the islands: Falkland Steamerducks and Cobb's Wren. There were still three other Falkland specialities to see: Ruddy-headed Goose, Striated Caracara & White-bridled Finch. It's possible to see all three species in the deep South of Chile. Additionally, it is possible to see Ruddy-headed Goose around Rio Grande in Argentina: but I couldn't find any when I visited before boarding the Plancius.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Cobb's Wren: </b>This was the second Falklands endemic seen & I hadn't even left the beach</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Cobb's Wren: </b>Carcass Island looks to be one of the best sites in the Falklands to see Cobb's Wren according to eBird. But that may be down to the frequency that expedition ships visit</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Cobb's Wren</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Blackish Cinclodes: </b>This is the nominate antarcticus subspecies which is endemic to the Falklands and it is known as Tussacbird by the locals</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Blackish Cinclodes: </b>The maculirostris subspecies occurs in Tierra del Fuego & the Cape Horn Archipelago. It can be seen from the <a href="https://birdingpooleharbourandbeyond.blogspot.com/2018/05/27-mar-18-cheeky-drink-bath.html" target="_blank">small boats in the Beagle Channel</a>. It is blacker with a yellow bill with a dark upper mandible</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Blackish Cinclodes: </b>Perhaps this is a fresh juvenile as its knackered like the beach individual, albeit feeding daily on the beach is going to create a fair bit of wear to the feathers</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">There were still a few more endemics to see & I'll cover them in the next Blog Posts.</span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comCarcass Island, Falklands-51.2804258 -60.5631026-79.590659636178856 -95.719352600000008 -22.970191963821158 -25.4068526tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-45703338807090380942023-12-06T17:00:00.000+00:002023-12-19T18:57:33.848+00:006 Dec 23 - Some Nice South Purbeck Birds<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">When I moved to Swanage in 1996, I quickly started a Poole Harbour list and a South Purbeck List. The South Purbeck List is the Historic Isle of Purbeck south of the Corfe Ridge, It is a long, narrow patch with some specific challenges, given it has no significant areas of open water & no wetlands which runs from Swanage to Arish Mell. But it does include some fantastic Birding sites including my Winspit, St Aldhelms & Chapman's Pool patch, as well as, Durlston. It also includes my house, so there were a number of areas I spent a lot of time watching each year. As a result of the habitats, I've seen a lot of good migrant passerines in the South Purbeck patch, but you also need to see a lot of tricky groups, including Seabirds, wildfowl and Waders to get a good total.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Ringed Plover: </b>This is one of the two Ringed Plovers that were present</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Over the last few years, I've spent a lot more time seawatching & I've seen a good selection of Dorset Seabirds. I've slowly managed to see the majority of the regular Waders during spring seawatches, but I've still struggled with many Wildfowl, which I've mainly missed on Spring seawatches. There are a few Waders I've missed till this Autumn, including Grey Phalarope, Redshank & Purple Sandpiper. In recent weeks, I've managed to see the first two species with late afternoon twitches to Kimmeridge: I must be one of the few Dorset Birders to have twitched a Redshank, but it was a species I had only heard on passage over the house in the dark.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>It was nice to see these two Knot</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Purple Sandpipers are hard to connect with in South Purbeck as they don't Winter on the coastline. So, you need to see a passage migrant. My mate Steve Morrison has spent weeks of fanatical Spring & a fair bit of Autumn seawatching at St Aldhelms over the many years he lived in Dorset. He has never seen a Purple Sandpiper on a St Aldhelms seawatch or in South Purbeck. Interestingly, there was one seen on a couple of days at Peveril Point, the point right at the Southern end of Swanage Bay, last year. Unfortunately, I couldn't locate it when I heard about it. Had it moved on or was it tucked in somewhere in the large bay between Peveril Point and Durlston. I've no idea, but Birding pride means it must have been the former case. This year, there was a sighting sent into the Dorset Bird Club for one being present at Peveril Point on 5 Dec. Local Purbeck Birder, James Leaver, saw the message on the Dorset Bird Club sightings page & was down there just after dawn on the following morning. He disturbed my breakfast with a call to alert me to its presence. I quickly finished the food & headed down. Rob Johnson had just beaten me there & was watching it. Even better it was roosting & feeding on the rocks right by the point, with 2 Ringed Plovers & 2 Knot. I've seen both species before, but only on a couple of occasions each in recent years as I've switched back to watching St Aldhelms more regularly. So, it was nice to add the Purple Sandpiper to the South Purbeck List and see the other two species.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Purple Sandpiper: </b>The Purple Sandpiper and the Ringed Plovers couldn't be relocated later in the morning, so perhaps this is a very transitionary location for them</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Purple Sandpiper</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The Purple Sandpiper took my South Purbeck List to 208 species seen, plus two species heard: a Spotted Redshank over the garden moth trap at night & Quail. The All Time South Purbeck List is currently 295, so I've still got a lot of species I could see. However, Steve Morrison's South Purbeck List is only 229, despite his many years of seawatching & Birding at the Winspit & St Aldhelms patch. There are a number of potential Duck species I could add from Spring seawatching, plus a few missing Terns. But after that it's still going to be a challenge to get close to Steve's List. But it will be fun trying to pass his List, especially, as I have chances every time there is a South Purbeck rarity, as Steve now lives in France, unless he is back in the UK for a few months of survey work.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Purple Sandpiper</b></span></span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comPeveril Point, Dorset, UK50.607419 -1.944417622.297185163821155 -37.1006676 78.917652836178846 33.2118324tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-1892515233863447962023-12-02T17:00:00.000+00:002023-12-07T17:42:33.966+00:002 Dec 23 - A Misty Jurassic Coast<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">There was a mid-afternoon email about an unseasonal Wheatear at Swyre Head which is the highest point in the Historic Isle of Purbeck. It had been foggy all day in Swanage with eighty metres visibility, which briefly rose to four hundred metres before quickly closing in again. With the combination of no details on where the Wheatear was and the foggy conditions, I carried on making the late lunch that I was just starting. As I was eating, I had texts from locals James Leaver & Rob Johnson to say that Swyre Head wasn't foggy and they could see Portland Bill nearly twenty miles away. I quickly finished my food & drove to the car park to start the mile long walk to the headland. I was spurred on by a photo of the Wheatear, that looks like an Isabelline Wheatear. I arrived to find James & Rob looking in different directions. They confirmed it had flown down off the top to the well-vegetated hillside, but they didn't see where, or if, it landed. Sufficient to say we didn't see it that evening & a nearly four hour search in three heavy rain squalls failed to relocate the first Dorset record of Isabelline Wheatear.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>The Jurassic Coast: </b>There was a nice evening view of the fog rolling over the headlands, but it wasn't a lot of compensation</span></span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comSwyre Head, Dorset, UK50.6058055 -2.094388822.295571663821157 -37.2506388 78.916039336178841 33.0618612tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-62644593219544532362023-11-28T17:00:00.000+00:002023-12-05T18:56:59.191+00:0028 Nov 23 - Studland Wings - Part Three<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The third in the trilogy from Studland from Jerry's Point on the vague theme of wings. This Great Northern Diver was just off Jerry's Point & I couldn't resist taking a few photos.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Great Northern Diver: </b>I like their scaly wing coverts when I get to see them close</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Great Northern Diver</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Great Northern Diver</b></span></span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comStudland, Poole Harbour, Dorset, UK50.6419069 -1.952763122.331673063821157 -37.1090131 78.952140736178848 33.2034869tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-57967169617123644442023-11-28T16:30:00.000+00:002023-12-05T18:57:13.299+00:0028 Nov 23 - Studland Wings - Part Two<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">There has been a Slavonian Grebe around Jerry's Point, Studland for over a week & finally it was close enough for some photos on nice still & dunny conditions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Slavonian Grebe: </b>Showing the clean well-demarked facial pattern</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Slavonian Grebe: </b>Another view of the clean-cut facial pattern which curves up behind the eye, before finally turning down</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Slavonian Grebe: </b>Slavonian Grebes have a small pale patch at the base of the bill, but they are rarely close enough to be able to see this</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Slavonian Grebe: </b>Showing the classic low & flat head shape and facial pattern and the stout bill</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Slavonian Grebe: </b>The sizes in the field states they are about ten percent larger than Black-necked Grebe, but realistically that is of little use without a lot of experience of judging their size in the field, unless you get to see both species together. However, the Great Crested Grebes can sometimes be used to judge their size</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Slavonian Grebe: </b>The peak of the head is at the rear of the crown</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Slavonian Grebe</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Slavonian Grebe</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Slavonian Grebe: </b>The crown looks more puffed up now as it was taking a break from diving</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Slavonian Grebe</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Slavonian Grebe</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Slavonian Grebe: </b>Despite seeing 242 Slavonian Grebe bird days & 5501 Black-necked Grebe bird days around Studland over the years, I've only seen a Slavonian Grebe fly once & I've yet to see a Black-necked Grebe fly: they just swim to move around & will dive if they feel threatened</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Slavonian Grebe: </b>They are separable in flight or if they flap their wings, as the white is restricted to the secondaries on Slavonian Grebes, but the white continues onto most of the primaries on Black-necked Grebes. But this isn't a particularly useful feature when they won't fly at Studland & they are mainly nocturnal migrants</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Slavonian Grebe: </b>Another wing shot</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Finally, a Black-necked Grebe for comparison which shows the peak of the head is above the eye, the black clearly curving below & behind the eye with the black fading into the white facial pattern and a thinner bill. They always look like large Dabchicks to me with shorter looking bodies and proportionally thinner necks, whereas, Slavonian Grebes look like small Great Crested Grebes, with longer bodies, proportionally thicker necks, a lower crown, the black curving up behind the eye before turning down with a cleaner-cut facial pattern & thicker bills.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Black-necked Grebe: </b>Jerry's Point (10 Jan 22)</span></span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comStudland, Poole Harbour, Dorset, UK50.6419069 -1.952763128.174746045813983 -37.109013100000013 73.109067754186015 33.203486900000016tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-70596668021020520212023-11-28T16:00:00.002+00:002023-11-29T21:20:54.748+00:0028 Nov 23 - Studland Wings - Part One<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">I had a good look around the South Haven part of the Studland Peninsula on the morning of 25 Nov, but I didn't see much of note beyond two Great Northern Divers, a Red-throated Diver, a Slavonian Grebe and a very distant Black-necked Grebe. So, it was a bit galling to find that there had been a Black-throated Diver and a Long-tailed Duck seen that afternoon. Albeit, I was watching the American Golden Plover at Lodmoor that afternoon, so I can't complain too much.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">I did see the Long-tailed Duck from the Brands Bay hide, when it popped into view briefly just beyond Redhorn Quay on the afternoon of 27 Nov, but it was a long way off & pelting down with rain at the time. This morning, it reappeared from behind Redhorn Quay & then hung around in Brands Bay, but it was about one kilometre away from the hide. Later in the morning, I was counting the Great Crested grebes & Red-breasted Mergansers at Jerry's Point, South Haven, when it dropped in close to the point. I paused the count to get some photos. It was a good thing that I did as within a couple of minutes, it was flying back towards Brands Bay again. It wasn't clear what disturbed in from Brands Bay, but it does seem to quickly fly when disturbed and then rapidly move on again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Long-tailed Duck: </b>Female</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Long-tailed Duck: </b>There are a less than annual species at Studland, but in the last five years they have become more regular</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Long-tailed Duck: </b>This would make a good mystery photo</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Long-tailed Duck: </b>With a photo-bombing Common Seal</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Long-tailed Duck: </b>A closer crop of the last photo</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Long-tailed Duck: </b>A final flight shot as it continued off in the direction of Brands Bay</span></span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comStudland, Poole Harbour, Dorset, UK50.6419069 -1.952763122.331673063821157 -37.1090131 78.952140736178848 33.2034869tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-52609428305886525162023-11-25T17:00:00.000+00:002023-12-19T18:57:19.418+00:0025 Nov 23 - A Long Overdue Dorset Tick<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">I had spent the morning having a good look around a few sites at Studland, but I hadn't found anything of note and decided to head home for an early lunch. I had just finished eating, when Phil Saunders rang to say news had just broken on a Weymouth Whatsapp group of an American Golden Plover at Lodmoor. With only five previous records and none being twitchable since I've lived in Dorset, then I was phoning the news around locally, as I was heading out of the door. Local Purbeck Birder James Leaver had arrived a few minutes earlier than me & as I got there I could see his camera raised: it was clearly still here. He pointed out which part of the five hundred or so Golden Plover flock to look in & I was quickly watching it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>American Golden Plover: </b>With a Golden Plover for comparison</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">It was an aggressive individual and didn't like the Golden Plovers getting too close to it. The darker crown and whiter line over the eye, dark ear covert spot, greyer more washed out colouration, lack of clear spotting on the breast and smaller size all helped to pick it out from the immaculately marked Golden Plovers. There was an interesting Golden Plover photographed the next day at Lodmoor which was washed out & didn't have any obvious golden spots which hoodwinked a few observers: but the other plumage features still confirmed it was just a washed out Golden Plover.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>American Golden Plover</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>American Golden Plover: </b>A teasing underwing shot</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>American Golden Plover: </b>The dusky patch at the base of the underwing is one of those ID features that can be tricky to see</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>American Golden Plover: </b>About the best I could do for an upperwing shot</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">In comparison, Golden Plovers have a nice white underwing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Golden Plover: </b>Showing the nice white underwing, while the American Golden Plover, to its left, is doing its best to remain uninterested</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Golden Plover: </b>Showing the nice white underwing</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Golden Plover</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Finally, a Pacific Golden Plover taken within a few days of the date of the Lodmoor photos, but nine years earlier in French Polynesia. I still find it hard to think that when I started Birding that American Golden Plover were lumped with Pacific Golden Plover and called Lesser Golden Plover.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Pacific Golden Plover: </b>Mangareva, French Polynesia (20 Nov 14)</span></span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comLodmoor, Dorset, UK50.6324433 -2.438222128.138831845864683 -37.594472100000011 73.126054754135311 32.718027900000017tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-84911338470782974962023-11-23T16:00:00.000+00:002023-12-05T18:57:50.630+00:0023 Nov 23 - A Bonus Tick On A DWT Brownsea Members Day<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Brownsea Island closes for the winter at the end of October school holiday. This allows the National Trust & Dorset Wildlife Trust to get on with essential maintenance work on the island. However, there are a few days when the island is open for visitors e.g. the DWT Members Days. As a volunteer, I get the chance to visit on some of these days to show the members the Birds on the lagoon and to get involved with general public engagement. It's also an excuse to have a look at the lagoon over the winter. There was a reasonable selection of Waders on the lagoon to show to the members. But as the tides were heading to neap tides, many Waders were roosting closer to their preferred feeding grounds, rather than on the lagoon.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">I spent most of the day in the Avocet hide talking to members and showing them the Spoonbills, Waders & Ducks on the lagoon and telling them how to identify them and various other snippets of information. Finally, in mid-afternoon we had a change over with volunteers in the hides and I decided to have a wander around other parts of the DWT reserve. There was time for a quick visit to the Lake hide, which confirmed there was nothing on the lakes, other than a couple of Mallards & a couple of Canada Geese. Then I spotted this Western Conifer Seed Bug on one of the windows. It's a species I've seen photos of on a number of occasions from the Weymouth area, but it was a Tick for me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Western Conifer Seed Bug: </b>This is an introduced Bug from North America that occurs to the West of the Rocky Mountains from California to British Columbia and as far East as Idaho & Nevada. In recent times, it has expanded its range to Eastern North America and it has been introduced to the UK, parts Europe, Chile & Argentina through imported timber products</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">I walked off the reserve with one of the other volunteers & as we had a few minutes to spare, we decided to walk up to look for some more Red Squirrels by the church. In normally don't walk up to this area, as it's usually very disturbed by visitors in the summer. But it was quiet today as the members were heading to the quay for their boat. As expected, there were several Red Squirrels in the area. But as we heading off the reserve to find the gentle path to the area, we saw this female Mallard right next to the path & typical for Mallards in this area, she was very tame & approachable.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Mallard: </b>Female</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">It soon became clear, why she was particularly approachable as she wasn't on her own. She had three youngsters in tow & this was late Nov and not early June. I hope there is a mild winter which will increase their chances of survival.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Mallard: </b>This should be a photo from June, not late Nov</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The members had a four hour trip onto Brownsea & there has been a lot of positive feedback to the DWT team from the members. It had been a good day.</span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comBrownsea, Poole Harbour, Dorset, UK50.6912513 -1.973901220.579573131076977 -37.1301512 80.802929468923026 33.1823488tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-75410355936132373442023-11-08T17:00:00.000+00:002023-12-19T18:56:36.391+00:008 Nov 23 - Snow Bunting In The Buff<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">In the last Blog Post, one of my plans for the Spotted Sandpiper day was to walk the beach at Shell Bay, Studland up to Pilot's Point in the hope of finding a Snow Bunting. What I wouldn't have done is to carry on further along the beach towards the nudist part of the beach, which is where local Purbeck Birder, James Leaver, was walking his dogs three days later when he found a Snow Bunting. It didn't stop raining till after lunch, but it had finally dried up by mid-afternoon when I went looking for it. I didn't see it as I walked from the beach end of the Nudist Beach track to Shell Bay, but I did find it on the return trip. It was about one or two hundred metres North of the end of the beach end of the Nudist Beach track, but feeding right up in the edge of the dunes. I guess I just overlooked it on the first sweep of the beach.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Fortunately, it was a nice cold day and too cold for any nudists. It's an area which is understandably under-watched, given the presence of some very unattractive individuals both there and the nearby dunes. As a warning, sadly the area also attracts the occasional individual who would be particularly unpleasant to encounter as a couple of my friends have mentioned over the years. As a result, I only ever visit on cold winter days when I think the area is likely to OK to visit.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Snow Bunting: </b>As I walked back South, I bumped into it by walking on a path one or two metres inside the dune. It was around five metres away from me and it froze, just like I did, before it slowly started moving away</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">There have been a few recent Snow Bunting records with <a href="https://birdingpooleharbourandbeyond.blogspot.com/2023/07/1-nov-21-another-snow-bunting.html" target="_blank">two individuals on Redhorn Quay in Nov 21</a> and another individual at Shell Bay in Nov 22. A full list of previous Studland records are listed <a href="https://birdingpooleharbourandbeyond.blogspot.com/2023/07/1-nov-21-another-snow-bunting.html" target="_blank">here</a>. This individual stayed from 8 Nov to 11 Nov. Another Snow Bunting flew South over the Glebelands area of Ballard Down on 21 Nov 23.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Snow Bunting: </b>I stayed for around five minutes before leaving it in peace</span></span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comStudland, Poole Harbour, Dorset, UK50.6419069 -1.952763122.331673063821157 -37.1090131 78.952140736178848 33.2034869tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-9380714590686411592023-11-05T17:00:00.000+00:002023-12-19T18:56:56.499+00:005 Nov 23 - A Poole Harbour First - Schrodinger's Sandpiper: Spotted, But Not Spotted<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">It was promising to be a reasonable day at Studland & I headed for South Haven, in the hope of some arriving Wildfowl through the Poole Harbour mouth. There have been the occasional records of Whooper Swans or Grey Geese in and there are still only two records of Glossy Ibis for Studland. With only three or four flyby records of Egyptian Geese at Studland, a flock of pale buff Geese would still be a result. But there was little on the move.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Time for Plan B to have a look around the back of the South Haven Pool, walk the beach to Pilots Point in the hope of a Snow Bunting and have a look along the Heather Walk in the hope of a lingering rare Phylloscopus Warbler. Being an optimist is an essential quality for a Birder, albeit I'm generally more realistic than optimistic, in general life. I was checking the South Haven Pool, when Paul Morton rang to say there was a likely Spotted Sandpiper that had just been found by Mark Wright by the Tank Traps. The Tank Traps are on the other side of South Haven and just to the South of the Houseboats, which was on my list of places to check later in the morning.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">About ten minutes later, I was carefully approached the Tank Traps through the trees so I could look over them from where I expected Mark to be looking from. But there was no sign of either the Spotted Sandpiper or Mark and his partner Debbie. There is a very limited view from the trees at the Tank Traps. I rang Paul back for more directions. He confirmed that Mark was still watching the Spotted Sandpiper, but he didn't have any directions. I guessed it was probably on the small beach at the base of Jerry's Point. I carefully walked in that direction, to ensure I didn't flush it if my hunch was correct. A couple of minutes later, I could see Mark, Debbie & the first of the local Birders on the beach at the base of the Jerry's Point track, but I still couldn't see the Spotted Sandpiper. I backtracked out to the road and walked to the beach, via the Jerry's Point track.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Spotted Sandpiper: </b>It looks superficially like a Common Sandpiper, but the bright yellow-orange legs stand out compared to the greenish-brown-yellow of Common Sandpipers. Other features are 1st Winter Spotted Sandpipers have plain edged tertials compared to pale spots on the tertial edges on Common Sandpipers. Spotted Sandpipers have pale pink bills with a dark tip, whereas, Common Sandpipers usually have all dark bills. Also, Spotted Sandpipers have a more rounded body with a short tail, compared to a more attenuated shape and a long tail in Common Sandpipers. In flight, Spotted Sandpipers have a thinner and shorter central white wing stripe especially on the inner wing</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Finally, I could see the Spotted Sandpiper which had been just out of view, from my previous viewpoint. It stayed till 12:30 with a party of Turnstones, four Dunlin & a Knot. It stayed in the area even when the other Waders flushed, until it was flushed by two selfish dog walkers who insisted on their right to boot it so they could wade past it, as the beach was still covered in water. They were asked not to, but then that would have needed the missing considerate genes in their DNA. The Spotted Sandpiper flew to Jerry's Point, where they flushed it again. We couldn't relocate it around Jerry's Point, Sandy Point or the Redhorn Quay area for the next hour and a half. But it finally returned to its preferred beach with the Turnstones, where it spent the rest of the afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Spotted Sandpiper: </b>Adult Spotted Sandpipers are spotted in the breeding season. All ages are unspotted in the Winter and yet it was cleared spotted by all Birders who saw it on its one day visit to Studland. Clearly, a birding variation on Schrodinger's famous cat hypothesis which was also in two states at once</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">I hoped there would be the chance for some better photographs on the following day, as these photos were disappointing. But it disappeared overnight and hasn't been relocated locally since. This is the first Poole Harbour record and the tenth Dorset record.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Common Sandpiper: </b>A Brownsea Common Sandpiper for comparison (2 Sep 17)</span></span></div>Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comStudland, Poole Harbour, Dorset, UK50.6419069 -1.952763122.331673063821157 -37.1090131 78.952140736178848 33.2034869tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-49506501784654754962023-11-01T17:00:00.000+00:002023-11-17T20:53:43.853+00:001 Nov 23 - November Butterflies<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The weather looked OK for an interesting seawatch off the Isle of Purbeck coastline and I decided to join my local Birding mate, James Leaver, at Peveril Point at Swanage. I was hoping for a Leach's Storm-petrel as there was a strong onshore wind as a low came in from the Atlantic. Unfortunately, it didn't produce much of note on the sea in about three hours of watching. A Red-throated Diver East and then into Swanage Bay & five Golden Plovers West & in were the highlights.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>A tatty Painted Lady enjoying the sun</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">But as I walked down to the point, I found a little sun trap where there was a small hollow in the ground. A tatty Painted Lady & a Red Admiral were enjoying the November sun. There may not be too many more days left this year to see either, especially the former species.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>This Red Admiral was only a few inches from the Painted Lady: </b>The Autumn isn't over yet</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">As I was writing this Blog Post, there was a Speckled Wood in my garden: my third Butterfly for November.</span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comPeveril Point, Swanage, Dorset, UK50.607419 -1.944417622.297185163821155 -37.1006676 78.917652836178846 33.2118324tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-44074635585374251472023-10-24T17:00:00.619+01:002023-10-26T22:49:08.325+01:0024 Oct 23 - Happy Tenth Birthday<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">It's ten years ago since I decided to buy a decent digital camera. My mate Pete Moore recommended I bought a Canon 7D & 400 mm lens. Pete also helped me get up to speed on the best settings for this combination. My first trip out was eventful as I was photographing a Kingfisher at Middlebere, when news broke about a Pallid Swift at Christchurch. I ended up getting thrown in at the deep end with trying to photograph a Pallid Swift in flight that afternoon. This was my <a href="https://birdingpooleharbourandbeyond.blogspot.com/2013/10/beginners-luck_24.html" target="_blank">first Blog Post</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Pallid Swift: </b>This Pallid Swift on my first day out with the camera really pushed my comfort zone (24 Oct 13)</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">I've written another 885 Blog Posts since that first Blog Post. For this tenth birthday Blog Post, I will pick my favourite Blog Post from each Blog year. This is a particularly hard task as there are so many Blog Posts to choose from.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">I'm not sure how I managed to get out Birding in the first year of having the camera, as I managed to create 229 Blog Posts during the first Blog year. I took a year off between contracts to travel to the Andamans & mainland India in Dec 13 to Jan 14, quickly followed by a short nine day trip to Morocco & Western Sahara in Feb 14, a week in Israel in Apr 14 and a three day trip to Croatia in May 14. With so many Blog Posts to chose from it is difficult to work out a favour Blog Post, so I've based it on this photo of <a href="https://birdingpooleharbourandbeyond.blogspot.com/2014/03/17-jan-14-wild-asses-in-salt.html" target="_blank">four Wild Asses walking across a salt pan</a> at Desert Coursers in Gujarat, India.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Four Wild Asses walking across a salt pan: </b>Desert Coursers in Gujarat, India (17 Jan 14)</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">I was still taking a break between contracts at the start of the second Blog year, but that was because I was about to head off on the expedition ship, Braveheart, to Pitcairn Island, Henderson Island and remote French Polynesian islands. Pitcairn and Henderson Islands had been high on my list of places that I dreamt of visiting, with Pitcairn Island for its history of the Bounty mutineers and neighbouring Henderson Island for its endemic species. However, I never thought would be possible to visit this remote British dependence, until I saw Wildwings were offering a two week trip on the Braveheart to Pitcairn and Henderson Islands and some nearby French Polynesian islands with a few days on Tahiti. I booked up as soon as I saw that trip advertised. One of the other attractions was the opportunity to land on remote uninhabited islands in French Polynesia which were the home to several more island endemics: the highlight of which was obvious the enigmatic <a href="https://birdingpooleharbourandbeyond.blogspot.com/2015/01/12-nov-14-sandpiper-with-sweet-tooth.html" target="_blank">Tuamotu Sandpiper</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Tuamotu Sandpiper: </b>The sweet-toothed Wader, Tenararo, French Polynesia (12 Nov 14)</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">It is a different subject for my favourite Blog Post of the third Blog year. I had spent a fair bit of this Blog year working on a long contract in Winchester & that limited my travelling. But there was an opportunity for a mini break to Ireland with Dave Gibbs & Paul Chapman that Autumn for a Royal Tern. After getting good views of the Royal Tern, we headed down to The Dingle for the evening where Dave & Paul planned to run a moth trap. There wasn't room in the accommodation for the three of us, so I headed off and found a B&B in the nearby village of Annascaul. By chance this is the village with the famous South Pole Inn which was owned & run by <a href="https://birdingpooleharbourandbeyond.blogspot.com/2016/09/28-aug-16-tom-crean-antarctic-explorer.html" target="_blank">legendary Polar Explorer, Tom Crean</a>. Crean travelled to the Antarctic three times with Scott & Shackleton and he was one of the three men, along with Shackleton & Worsley, to cross the South Georgia mountain range. He is one of the unsung heroes of the Golden Era of Polar Exploration and his story is as inspiration as Shackleton's story in my eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Tom Crean's statue: </b>This great statue sits in a small park to commemorate Tom & it is opposite his pub, the South Pole Inn (28 Aug 16)</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The fourth Blog year was a quiet year where I was having to focus on the Winchester contract. There was no opportunity for foreign travel. I will stick to the historical theme of the last Blog Post. I drove past the <a href="https://birdingpooleharbourandbeyond.blogspot.com/2017/08/11-apr-17-spot-difference.html" target="_blank">Fovant Badges</a> in Wiltshire in Apr 17 & this was a good opportunity to see the new Badge that had recently been carved into the down. The lost London Rifle Brigade Badge had been re-carved, one century after the Badges were originally carved. The others were created by the regiments who were training in the area before they were sent to the First World War trenches. Sadly, for many soldiers this area will have been the last part of England that they spent a lot of time in. It's great to see that volunteers are spending the time to not only look after the existing Badges, but to re-carve one of the lost ones.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>The Fovant Badges: </b>The lost London Rifle Brigade has been re-carved between the Post Office Rifles and the Devonshire Regiment (11 Apr 17)</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Finally, the contract came to an end & I was free to travel again in the fifth Blog year. I planned a three month trip away, started in Colombia on a Birdquest tour with my late good mate Brian Field. I then squeezed in a couple of weeks on my own exploring Chile before flying to Ushuaia and boarding the Oceanwide Expeditions ship, Plancius, for a seven week trip from Ushuaia to Holland via South Georgia, Tristan da Cunha, St Helena, Ascension Island and Cape Verde. It is very hard to pick a standout day in such an amazing and varied three months. Ultimately, it would have to be a Blog Post from the time spent on the Plancius during the Atlantic Odyssey or West African Pelagic. On this trip, I saw about forty percent of the World's Seabirds, twenty-six of the ninety one Cetaceans and four of the seven species of Sea Turtles. I also got to visit another couple of remote British dependencies. I think the highlight Blog Post has to be the one where we saw a <a href="https://birdingpooleharbourandbeyond.blogspot.com/2018/07/15-apr-18-atlantic-odyssey-day_10.html" target="_blank">group of Flying Squid</a>. I wasn't aware that Flying Squid existed, until we saw them & I'm glad to have got a photo of one group.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Flying Squid sp.: </b>At Sea Tristan da Cunha to St Helena (15 Apr 18)</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">I spent most of the sixth Blog year working on another long term contract back in Winchester. Again, there was no time for foreign travel, so the Blog year was mainly local Birding and other Wildlife. But I couldn't resist the opportunity to spend a <a href="https://birdingpooleharbourandbeyond.blogspot.com/2019/02/23-feb-19-tale-of-twat-boy-pratt-boy.html" target="_blank">weekend on Shetland twitching the Tengmalm's Owl</a>. For me, this was one of those mythical species on the British List which I never thought would occur again, let alone give Birders a chance of seeing it. It was one of the memorable twitches, but it was spoilt a bit by bad behaviour from two unknown twitchers that evening.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Tengmalm's Owl: </b>Bixter with lighting thanks to Pratt-boy who insisted on turning on his torch against the instructions of the locals & houseowners (23 Feb 19)</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The main event of the seventh Blog year was the C19 outbreak, especially losing the whole of the Spring to the lockdown. I was restricted to blogging about #BWKM0, Birdwatching at Kilometre zero which was a hashtag that was used a lot for Birders watching from home. However, the standout trip for me was my last carefree pre-C19 twitch to see a long staying <a href="https://birdingpooleharbourandbeyond.blogspot.com/2023/08/4-dec-19-last-carefree-twitch.html" target="_blank">Hermit Thrush on St Mary's</a>. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to day trip to St Mary's to see it over a weekend. Eventually, I bit the bullet and took a day's unpaid leave on about the last nice weather day of the year. I saw it just in time as it departed a few days later.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Hermit Thrush: </b>St Mary's (4 Dec 19)</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Continuing to work from home was the one positive of the second year of C19. I was doing a lot of local Birding, but it took me some time to get back into the twitching and I ensured that the handful of twitches I went on were conducted in a safe way as far as C19 was concerned. So, masks in garages & shops and no lift sharing. The stand out twitch was to Tenby in Wales to see <a href="https://birdingpooleharbourandbeyond.blogspot.com/2023/07/16-apr-21-theres-wally.html" target="_blank">Wally, my first Walrus</a>. However, I wasn't expecting Wally to be upstaged by a <a href="https://birdingpooleharbourandbeyond.blogspot.com/2023/07/16-apr-21-harbour-porpoises-upstaging.html" target="_blank">very showy Harbour Porpoise</a> who put on a superb display that evening.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Wally the Walrus: </b>Tenby (16 Apr 21)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Harbour Porpoise: </b>Tenby (16 Apr 21)</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The nineth Blog year saw me take early retirement from the IT world and look forward to more Birding opportunities. I managed two enjoyable and C19 safe mini-breaks to Ireland to see the Egyptian Vulture & a Northern Harrier, with the showy Baikal Teal on the Somerset Levels on the first trip & the Least Tern on the second trip. But the best day of the Blog year was another memorable twitch to the Scillies for the <a href="https://birdingpooleharbourandbeyond.blogspot.com/2023/07/17-oct-22-another-memorable-scillies.html" target="_blank">Blackburnian Warbler</a>. This was upstaged on the way back by <a href="https://birdingpooleharbourandbeyond.blogspot.com/2023/08/17-oct-22-my-best-uk-marine-find.html" target="_blank">finding a Loggerhead Turtle</a> on the return journey: there less than two hundred & fifty UK records.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Blackburnian Warbler: </b>Bryher (17 Oct 22)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Loggerhead Turtle: </b>At sea St Mary's to Penzance (17 Oct 22)</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The tenth Blog year finally saw the return to overseas travel with a spate of C19 delayed foreign trips. It started with seven weeks returning to Indonesia with Bird Tour Asia trips to the Banda Sea & Remote Moluccas. I then had a few days Birding in Sulawesi, Bali & Java looking for Birds I had missed in the sixteen weeks I had spent over three long visits in 1991 & 1992. In Jan, I was travelled again with a week in Argentina before rejoining the Plancius & heading for the Falklands, South Georgia & Antarctica. In the late Winter, I was off again for my third trip to New Zealand looking for & seeing my last three Kiwis before joining what was to be a badly run and very disappointing West Pacific Odyssey from New Zealand to Japan, where the ship failed to put basic rules in place to manage a C19 outbreak onboard. The result is we were not allowed to land at Truk in Micronesia or on the planned Japanese islands. I will provide more detail of how badly Heritage Expeditions mismanaged the trip when I get around to sorting out the photos. For now I will not recommend anybody travels with Heritage Expeditions. Having completed all the C19 delayed trips, I managed to squeeze in a bonus trip to Angola with a couple of good mates, Phil Hansbro & Richard Carden in June. Again it's going to be hard to select a single Blog Post to adequately sum up the year. But in contrast to the disastrous Heritage Expeditions trip, the Oceanwide Expeditions cruise to Antarctica was a delight & another well-run trip with this excellent & professional expedition company. I've not had chance to sort out the photos, but I will leave this as my favourite photo of the trip & one of my favourite photos of the last ten years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>King Penguin: </b>St Andrews Bay, South Georgia (22 Jan 23)</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">These are only a few of the 886 Blog Posts that I've written to date. There are many more Bird, Cetacean, Sea Turtle, Butterfly, Dragonfly or other Posts. I hope this has wetted your appetite to explore other Blog Posts which can be searched for on date or using the species lists on the right hand side of the Blog. Finally, thanks for helping to generate the over six hundred thousand Blog hits over the last decade. Hopefully, the next decade will be as varied and enjoyable as the last decade.</span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-81018382804643080272023-10-21T17:00:00.000+01:002023-11-07T17:32:04.294+00:0021 Oct 23 - Goodbye & Thanks For (All) The Fish<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">I planned to go looking for an Eastern migrant on the Purbeck coast this AM, but early morning rain changed that plan. When the rain stopped, it was clear it was only going to be a brief interlude, so I opted for the last of the rising tide in Brands Bay hide as Plan B. The mud had just been covered by the time I arrived, but there were still a reasonable selection of typical Waders and Wildfowl in the Bay. Some were feeding, but others were hiding in the marshes, but the rising tide forced them to show as they moved locations.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The first highlight of the visit was a party of four Spoonbills flying in high from Ower. They circled the Bay, but didn't stop & left in the direction of Littlesea. I wondered if they were new in, as the Ower & Middlebere Spoonbills generally return directly to Brownsea as the tide rises in Poole Harbour. While there have been up to 81 on Brownsea this Autumn, this is the first Spoonbills that I have seen in Brands Bay this Autumn. They are always an erratic visitor to Brands Bay.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>The four Spoonbills: </b>The one with the pinkish bill, black wingtips & trailing edge is a Juvenile</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The other highlight was a Great White Egret that dropped in at 10:30. Typically, it was a long way out on the marshes in the middle of the bay. However, after fifteen minutes there, it flew & dropped in just to the left of the hide on the near bank: which is the closest I've seen a Great White Egret in Brands Bay.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Great White Egret: </b>The classic S bend neck</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Great White Egret: </b>This isn't looking good for the fish</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Great White Egret: </b>Goodbye & thanks for (all) the fish</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">These days in Poole Harbour, none of the local Birders are surprised to hear of a Great White Egret or two at any of the waterside parts of the harbour between the Autumn and late Winter. It's hard to remember that when I bumped into one at the Middlebere end of the Wytch Channel on 7 Sep 14, it was first easily twitchable individual for the Poole Harbour Birders. It lost its quality reputation within a few days.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Great White Egret: </b>Finally, the classic long neck</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">It had been a good visit to Brands Bay.</span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comBrands Bay, Studland, Poole Harbour, UK50.664626899999988 -1.981978522.354393063821142 -37.1382285 78.97486073617884 33.1742715tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-48881396747641955162023-10-18T17:00:00.000+01:002023-11-07T17:31:53.358+00:0018 Oct 23 - A Plan That Quickly Unravelled<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The forecast for the morning as Storm Babet was due to hit Dorset was for a very windy day & a wet morning, with the rain becoming very heavy in the afternoon. It didn't look promising enough to face a walk in the rain to the Durlston seawatching hide and I took the easy option of the Brands Bay hide. I mistimed my arrival and just missed the last of the exposed mud. However, several visits in the previous week on the high spring tides had been good. The tides have been some of the highest I've seen in Brands Bay and roosting Waders have been regularly relocating within the bay. The appearance of a Juv Marsh Harrier on 16 Oct was good, as they are a surprisingly scarce species given their abundance in the Wareham Channel area of Poole Harbour. The following day, a new unringed Osprey made a short appearance. Both of these Raptors had stirred up the Waders & winter Wildfowl as they quartered the bay. So, I planned for two or three hours to see what happened. I'm still hoping the Forster's Tern will finally follow one of the visiting Sandwich Terns into bay, as there is still only one record of it in the Studland patch: albeit there were clearly other occasions when it must have passed through the patch.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">I was still completing my first detailed scan of the bay when I got a phone call from local Lytchett Bay stalwart Shaun Robson. Was I going to be heading to LB? It was more interesting that. There was a breaking story of a probable Pallid Harrier at Wyke Down near Sixpenny Handley close to the Hampshire & Wiltshire borders. This is an area with some good farmland which has had a track record of attracting Raptors and Short-eared Owls in the past. The story was a bit convoluted & I will spare the readers of this Blog the details. Suffice to say, it sounded positive enough to say goodbye to the other Birder in the hide & head off to Wyke Down. At that point, it identification hadn't been fully confirmed as the sightings had been short, but it had been in the area for a couple of days at least. I arrived to find Ian Ballam had also abandoned Lytchett Bay. So, that left two dedicate Poole Harbour patch Birders having deserted our respective patches: it better be there. There was another Birder who I didn't recognise. A check of the latest news, had confirmed that the Juv Pallid Harrier had been seen again that morning at 08:45 & the identification had finally been established. This update also confirmed there was a Juv Hen Harrier in the area. Both were ranging widely and infrequently seen. Ian confirmed he had seen a Ringtail Harrier, but it had disappeared out of sight behind some bushes in the fields to the East of the road & hadn't reappeared in the intervening thirty minutes. It was a going to be a waiting & praying game, including praying that the on and off drizzle didn't get worse.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Juv Pallid Harrier</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The drizzle did get worse & I put the hood over the camera. It should be a waterproof body, but as the cover is waterproof, I decided I might as well protect the camera. Within a couple of minutes of doing so, Ian shouted a Ringtail was behind me & was hunting over the field. As I turned he said that's the Pallid Harrier. I quickly got onto it with the bins & the strong orange on the underwing secondaries & the long thin wings, made this look promising. I quickly dropped the bins, to reach for the camera & then had to fiddle with the bloody cover which I had foolishly tied up. This cost me a few seconds as it came within one hundred & fifty metres of where we were standing, before it started climbing & flying rapidly across the next field. It briefly circled near Down Farm, before disappearing out of sight over the adjacent wood. I was able to get some photos as it crossed the field, but at a half kilometre range. The photos aren't great, but they were better than nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Juv Pallid Harrier</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">We were joined by surprisingly few Dorset and other local Birders with only about eight of us present a couple of hours later, when Shaun Robson picked it up at 13:00. I ended up looking at the wrong group of bushes at this point and missed the brief views before it disappeared behind a low ridge. It emerged from the ridge & crossed the road close to the trees, before continuing West in front of the trees. I had distant scope views over the distant ridge before it dropped out of sight. It was far too far for any photos. The steady rain set in soon after that sighting, but James Leaver & I stuck it out for another couple of hours, before accepting the weather wasn't going to get any better. Still we had both seen it & felt we had put enough effort in & were the last to give up the search that day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Juv Pallid Harrier</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">There are only three accepted Dorset records, with a couple more records pending review:</span></div>
<li><span style="color: yellow;">One shot at Whatcombe, near Blandford Forum, on 11 Apr 1938</span></li>
<li><span style="color: yellow;">a Juv at Charmouth on 26 Oct 2017</span></li>
<li><span style="color: yellow;">One at Hengistbury Head on 27 Sep 2022.</span></li>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Juv Pallid Harrier</b></span></span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comWyke Down, Dorset, UK50.9536599 -2.004398428.635398358381863 -37.1606484 73.271921441618133 33.1518516tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-68107683844006330392023-10-15T17:00:00.000+01:002023-11-28T07:58:24.184+00:0015 Oct 23 - Shieldbugs & Bush Crickets At St Aldhelms<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">During a quiet five minutes at St Aldhelms, Phil Saunders & I had a quick look at the coastguards lookout wall, as it is an invertebrate hotspot. The white walls radiate the sun and there is a nice vegetated base to the wall. There was a Grey Bush Cricket on the wall, but they are very twitchy and not for the first time for this species, it disappeared into the vegetation as soon as we got close. But there was a Dark Bush Cricket and a Boat Bug, which are species that are a lot more tolerant of a close approach with a camera.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Dark Bush Cricket & Boat Bug Enoplops scapha</b>: Dark Bush Crickets are a common Bush Cricket in the Isle of Purbeck. Boat Bugs are common & widespread Shieldbug of dry, sunny & sheltered areas with sparse vegetation, especially sandhills and cliff faces on the Southern coasts from Kent to Pembrokeshire</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Even better from my viewpoint, was there were two Brassica Bugs. These are another species of Shieldbug & they were a Tick for me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Brassica Bug: </b>Adult & Instar (immature)</span></span></div>
Studland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588632407717175521noreply@blogger.comSt Aldhelms Head, Dorset, UK50.55 -2.0522.239766163821152 -37.20625 78.86023383617885 33.10625tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5412188783124999923.post-70135577341698172312023-10-11T17:00:00.000+01:002023-11-07T17:31:40.103+00:0011 Oct 23 - A Last Minute Visit to St Mary's With ORCA<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">A week earlier I had responded to a request for a replacement ORCA surveyor on a trip to St Mary's on 11 Oct. It didn't take more than a few seconds before I said I was available. I left early for the early hours' drive to Penzance: as there had been overnight road closure signs for October, when I drove down for the Cornish Northern Harrier. In the end, the road closures were restricted to a closure where I had to exit the A30 & immediately re-join the road. I was in Penzance nice & early for the sailing. As we got closer to the boarding time, the team leader, Phil Taylor & the third surveyor, Mike Taylor (no relation) appeared. it turns out that Mike had trained Phil, who had recently qualified as a team leader. Both lived in Cornwall & were very use to trips on the Scillonian.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">We left on time & we quickly started the ORCA survey. The sea wasn't as choppy as I expected, but a stiff SW wind wasn't helping, especially as we were surveying from the outer bridge deck. But we managed to find positions on the outer bridge deck to survey from. The crossing out was good: I saw ten Short-beaked Common Dolphins and another five Dolphins that appeared too briefly to identify. There were still reasonable numbers of large Shearwaters with at least one hundred and fifteen Cory's Shearwaters, ten Great Shearwaters, two Sooty Shearwaters and a few Manx Shearwaters. There were another twenty five large Shearwaters sp. that I didn't spent more than a few seconds looking at, as we were there to survey for Cetaceans, not Seabirds. Other highlights included six Storm-petrels and an Arctic Skua. Fortunately, we encountered a mixed Shearwater flock off the Scillies, when I was the recorder: which allowed me the chance for a bit of photography.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>A nice Shearwater montage: </b>Sooty Shearwater, Great Shearwater & Cory's Shearwater</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>A close up of the Sooty Shearwater</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Great Shearwater: </b>I do like Great Shearwaters</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Great Shearwater: </b>It's always a treat to see them in UK waters</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Great Shearwater</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Great Shearwater</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Great Shearwater</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Great Shearwater with a trailing Cory's Shearwater</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Cory's Shearwater: </b>It's unusual for Cory's Shearwaters to still be in Scillies waters in October</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Cory's Shearwater: </b>All the ones I looked at looked to be regular Cory's Shearwaters</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">We arrived at the Hugh Town quayside on time. This gave me about three hours for Birding on St Mary's. I said goodbye to the others, as we had all planned different activities for our time on St Mary's.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Coming into Hugh Town</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">I checked RBA on my mobile as we arrived and there were no major rarities on the islands. I decided to head out to check the Old Churchyard, before crossing Lower Moors & having a look at Porthloo Lane. This took in some of my favourite old stamping grounds when I used to stay on St Mary's back in the 80s. The island appeared very quiet and in that walk, I was disappointed to not even see a Warbler or Crest. The highlight was seeing my first White-speck that flew up from the churchyard, before landing again. Unfortunately, it hadn't settled down when it landed & was soon on its way again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>White-speck: </b>I was struggling to figure out what this Moth was & wasn't surprised to find the reason why: is was a Moth Tick</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">I carried on & bumped into a small crowd by the ex-Old Town cafe. I hadn't bothered to pay any attention to where the scarce species were when I checked RBA, so I wasn't sure what was where on the islands. I asked the first Birder & got told, "It's on the fence". It was & it was a nice Wryneck sat fully in the open, until I raised the camera: at which point it flew into the back gardens of the bungalows. I wasn't going to hang around for longer views, so headed on to check the Lower Moors hide. Sure enough there was a Jack Snipe in front of the hide. No real surprise that one was on view, given this hide must be one of the best places in the country to see a Jack Snipe in the open.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Jack Snipe</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Jack Snipe</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">After getting some photos, I carried on along the Lower Moors path. I wasn't surprised to note that only about five of the fifty plus Birders I saw that day were actually looking. I wonder what would be found if some actually looked, rather than just walking between somebody else's Birds. But that isn't much better than the twenty percent of people Birding on the islands that I remember from the 80s. But too be fair, there were probably more Birders looking elsewhere on the other islands, or they had already checked my route & moved on elsewhere on St Mary's. I bumped into a Spotted Flycatcher which was proof there were a few migrants tucked away on the island. I was running out of time, so I decided to knock the Birding on the head, pick up a coffee for the return journey and meet Phil & Mike on the quayside.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Mike Taylor (left) & Phil Taylor as we were leaving Hugh Town</b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">The wind had eased and the skies were nice & overcast: which were helpful conditions for the survey. I saw another six Short-beaked Common Dolphins, a Risso's Dolphin & 2 Harbour Porpoises on the return trip.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Short-beaked Common Dolphin: </b>The priority on seeing a Cetacean is to alert the recorder, note the angle from the ship's course and how far they are below the horizon on the ORCA binoculars (which have a vertical scale in the right eye-piece)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Short-beaked Common Dolphin: </b>Having passed the details of the species, number of individuals, their initial position, course & behaviour to the recorder, there is rarely time for any photographs. So, it was nice to be able to get a couple of shots of one of the Short-beaked Common Dolphins</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Again, there were over a hundred Cory's Shearwaters, along with a handful of Great Shearwaters, Sooty Shearwaters, Manx Shearwaters, two Storm-petrels and a Bonxie.</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><b>Sooty Shearwater: </b>This Sooty Shearwater wasn't impressed that the Scillonian was heading straight for it</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;">Far too quickly, we could see Mousehole and the survey was coming to an end as the light gave out. It had been a long, but enjoyable day. We had been lucky with the weather on the return trip, as the forecast was for rain setting in during the late afternoon. Fortunately, the timing worked out perfectly and the rain didn't set in until I reached the chippy at the Hayle. The rain didn't ease for the rest of the drive back to Dorset. With two sets of road closures and over an hour of diversions, then I ended up getting home a lot later than planned. Still better the diversions were on the return trip, than the drive to Penzance.</span></div>
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