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A personal account of the "Rare & Scarce Birds seen in Britain 2005"

Available now on two discs - priced £13 (inc p+p)

Birds featured include : Belted Kingfisher, Barrow's Goldeneye, Stilt & Upland Sandpiper, Trumpeter Finch, Sooty & Lesser-crested Tern, Green Heron, Hooded Merganser and many more. Over Two hours of footage.

Duration = 124 Minutes

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Species List 

Disc One

Black BrantHolkham, Norfolk – January

Lesser Yellowlegs – Stiffkey, Norfolk – January

Great-grey Shrike – Dunstall Common, Worcestershire – January

Richard’s Pipit kinmel Bay, Conwy – February

Glaucous Gull Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire – February

Ross’s Gull Petershead, Aberdeenshire – February

Red-necked GrebeStanwick G.P’s Northamptonshire – February

Little Bunting – Caunsall, Worcestershire – March

Slavonian GrebeBarrow upon Trent G.P’s, Derbyshire – March

Black-necked GrebeNene Barrage lake, Northampton – March

Black Grouse Langdon Beck, Teesdale – March

Great Northern Diver Culverthorpe Lake, Lincolnshire – March

HoopoeCefn Cribwr, Glamorgan – March

Great-grey Shrike Walton upon Trent, Derby – March

Caspian Gull Long Drove, Cambridgeshire – March

Belted Kingfisher Shugborough Hall, Stafford – April

HawfinchParkend Church, Forest of Dean – April

Great Spotted Cuckoo Brooklands Pleasure Park, West Sussex – April

Purple HeronMorden Forest, Wareham, Dorset – April

Blue-headed Wagtail – Blithfield Reservoir, Staffordshire – April

WaxwingsBlithfield Reservoir, Staffordshire – April

Snow GooseHolkham, Norfolk – April

Spoonbill – Trimley Marshes, Suffolk – April

King EiderTroon, Ayreshire – May

Iceland GullIrvine Harbour, Ayreshire - May

Stilt Sandpiper – Burham Norton, Norfolk – May

Barrow’s Goldeneye – Meikle loch, Newburgh, Aberdeen – May

Whiskered TernAshton’s Flash, Cheshire – May

Red-necked GrebeKnowsley Safari, Lancashire – May

Woodchat Shrike Cromer Golf course, Norfolk – May

Trumpeter Finch – Languard N.R. Suffolk – May

Terek Sandpiper Cliffe Pools RSPB, Kent – May

Spotted Sandpiper Belvide Reservoir, Staffordshire – May

Balearic Woodchat Shrike – Uphill, Somerset – June

Marsh Sandpiper Bowling Green Marsh RSPB, Devon  - June

 

 

 

 

Disc Two

Collered PratincoleNational Wetlands Centre, Carmarthen – July

Sooty Tern – Cemlyn Bay, Anglesey – July

Lesser-crested Tern –Happisburgh, Norfolk – July

Bee-eaters Hampton Bishop, Herefordshire – July

White-billed DiverHolm Sound, Orkney Islands – July

Laughing GullBurray, Orkney Islands – August

Black-throated Diver Lochindorb, Highlands – August

Ring-billed GullOtterspool, Merseyside – August

Mediteranean GullOtterspool, Merseyside – August

Long-billed DowitcherRutland Water, Leicestershire – August

Cattle EgretBrampton, Cambridgeshire – August

Wilson’s Phalarope Farlington Marsh, Hampshire – August

Black-headed Wagtail South Huish, Devon – August

Spotted Crake Ambaston G.P’s, Derbyshire – August

Red-backed ShrikeGunthorpe, Lincolnshire – August

Booted WarblerWintereton Dunes, Norfolk – September

Red-backed ShrikeLodmoor, Dorset – September

Red-backed Shrike Spurn Point, Yorkshire – September

Little Crake – Slimbridge WWT, Gloucestershire – September

Lesser-grey ShrikeSpurn Point, Yorkshire – September

Long-billed DowitcherDrift Reservoir, Cornwall – September

Spotted Sandpiper Pinnis Head, Isles of Scilly – October

Sora – Lower Moors pool, Isles of Scilly – October

Squacco HeronNewton Abbot, Devon – October

Red-necked PhalaropeSlimbridge WWT, Gloucestershire – October

Grey phalaropeNew Brighton, Wirral, Cheshire – October

Arctic Warbler Portland, Dorset – October

White-rumped Sandpiper Grafham Water, Cambridgeshire – October

Paddyfield WarblerTorness Powerstation, Lothian – October

Black-throated DiverChelmarsh Lake, Shropshire – October

Green Heron – Red Wharf Bay, Anglesey – November

Grey-cheeked Thrush –Northaw Great Wood C.P Hertfordshire – November

Upland Sandpiper –Kingston Seymour, Somerset – November

Sociable Plover –Rainham Marsh RSPB, London – December

Hooded Merganser – Chilham Fisheries, Kent – December

Humes Yellow-Browed Warbler - Filey, North Yorkshire – December 

Great Norther DiverDraycote Water, Warwickshire – December

Laughing GullPorthcawl, Glamorgan – December

Black-throated ThrushCurload, Somerset – December

BitternUpton Warren, Worcestershire - December


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