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A drift of Quail
After a brilliant discovery of a quail in the lower cereal fields around Roby Well Way in the morning if Tuesday I was a really pleased if a little surprised to hear that some other birders had connected with a (the?) quail on the other side if the hill. Anyway after several visits we begun to speculate on the possibilities of more than one bird. There was even speculation that sightings had overlapped - Dave and I had one calling at 3:30pm whilst other birders had connected around that time in a slightly different location .... Nothing concrete though, oh well off to bed.
Upon arriving at the last location of Tuesdays quail I was met by two local birders who seemed to be looking at the ground. As I got close they said we needn't bother listening or looking because this was on the deck
Newton Lake, Willow Park
D Broome
A nice surprise to whet-my-lips
My House, Eccleston
Damian P
Dairy Farm Road - Old Coach Road Lap
Curlew 2 to the west
Whitethroat 3
Oystercatcher 1
Stock dove 4
Jay 1
Buzzard 1
Tree sparrow 2
Brown hare 4
Damian P
No photo is worth it - Schedule 1 Birds
Bee-eater
Bittern
Bittern, little
Bluethroat
Brambling
Bunting, cirl
Bunting, Lapland
Bunting, snow
Buzzard, honey
Capercaillie (Scotland only)
Chough
Corncrake
Crake, spotted
Crossbills (all species)
Divers (all species)
Dotterel
Duck, long-tailed
Eagle, golden
Eagle, white-tailed
Falcon, gyr
Fieldfare
Firecrest
Garganey
Godwit, black-tailed
Goshawk
Grebe, black-necked
Grebe, Slavonian
Greenshank
Gull, little
Gull, Mediterranean
Harriers (all species)
Heron, purple
Hobby
Hoopoe
Kingfisher
Kite, red
Merlin
Oriole, golden
Osprey
Owl, barn
Owl, snowy
Peregrine
Petrel, Leach's
Phalarope, red-necked
Plover, Kentish
Plover, little ringed
Quail, common
Redstart, black
Redwing
Rosefinch, scarlet
Ruff
Sandpiper, green
Sandpiper, purple
Sandpiper, wood
Scaup
Scoter, common
Scoter, velvet
Serin
Shorelark
Shrike, red-backed
Spoonbill
Stilt, black-winged
Stint, Temminck's
Stone-curlew
Swan, Bewick's
Swan, whooper
Tern, black
Tern, little
Tern, roseate
Tit, bearded
Tit, crested
Treecreeper, short-toed
Warbler, Cetti's
Warbler, Dartford
Warbler, marsh
Warbler, Savi's
Whimbrel
Woodlark
Wryneck
Newton Lake
D Broome