Sunday 29 December 2013

Video Killed the Radio Star - Buggles

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So, that's Christmas over for another year, rather nice that we got another one in! A heavy morning frost turned into a bright sunny day, but still we have been confined to barracks so another case of 'All Our Yesterdays' again. If there was one regret during my 20 years 'birding' in the North Sea from the safety of an Oil Rig, it has to be not honing the skills of video recording and taking much more footage, To name just one opportunity missed, when from behind the cover of a winch I observed a Long-eared Owl catch a Purple Sandpiper 'on the wing'  and land just a matter of feet away. Firstly, it decapitated the hapless Wader before deftly removing both legs and wings before swallowing the remainder whole. These mainly short clips, taken 120 miles north east of Aberdeen, may be of interest to Mariner and Land Lubber alike!
BARNACLE GOOSE
GLAUCOUS GULL
GREAT SKUA
LONG-EARED OWL
BLACK-HEADED GULL with BRAMBLING
MERLIN with REDWING
MIGRATION
PINK-FOOTED GEESE
LONG-TAILED DUCK
SHORT-EARED OWL
STOCK DOVE
WIGEON
WATER RAIL
Entry            Pageviews
United States
                 1912
United Kingdom
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Poland
                   127
Russia
                   103
Germany
                     66
Estonia
                     59
China
                     21
Canada
                     16
France
                     11
Indonesia
                       8