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A personal account of the "Rare & Scarce Birds seen in Britain 2006"

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

Birds featured include : Long-billed Murrelet, Black-eared Kite, Stilt Sandpiper, Pallid Harrier, Sora, Kildeer, Scop's Owl, Roller, Ivory Gull and many, many more. Over Two hours of footage.

Duration = 140 minutes

Click here for a sample video

 

 

 

 

 

Species List  

Disc One

Black-throated ThrushTownhill, Glamorgan – January

Common Rosefinch Graves Park, Sheffield - February

Great Bustard – Bleadon Levels, Somerset – February (re-introduced)

Lesser ScaupGrimley, Worcestershire – February

Penduline TitRainham Marsh, London – February

Sora – Gibraltar Point, Lincolnshire – March

Bonaparte’s Gull Ferryden, Montrose – March

Bonaparte’s Gull Asda N.R. Frome, Somerset – March

Laughing GullMadjeski Stadium, Reading – March

Green-winged TealEyebrook Reservoir, Leicestershire – March

Penduline TitPortrack Marsh, Cleveland – March

Cattle EgretMill Hill Trout Farm, Wiltshire – March

Franklin’s GullNortham Burrows C.P Devon – April

Alpine SwiftSeaton, Devon – April

Kildeer – Blakeney Freshmarsh, Norfolk – April

Subalpine WarblerStanpit Marsh N.R Dorset – April

Ring OuzelWalton Hill N.T. Worcestershire – April

WryneckWarmley, Gloucestershire – April

Woodchat Shrike Trent Meadows, Derbyshire – May

Ring-necked DuckCoatham Marsh, Cleveland – May

Black-winged Stilt Martin Mere, Lancashire – May

Black-winged StiltUpton Warren, Worcestershire - May

Slavonian GrebeAlvecote Pools, Warwickshire – June

Red-footed Falcon – Millenium C.P, Bedford – June

Scops Owl – Thrupp, Oxon, Oxfordshire – June

Semi-palmated Sandpiper Saltholme Pools, Cleveland – July

Lesser-grey Shrike – Shingle Street, Suffolk – July

Stilt Sandpiper – Conwy RSPB, Conwy - July

 

Disc Two

Pine Grosbeak – Gilston Park, Hertfordshire – July

Red-backed Shrike – Croxley Common, Hertfordshire – July

Black-necked Grebe – Gailey Reservoir, Staffordshire – August

White Pelican – Bough Beech Reservoir, Kent – August

Great White Egret Chigborough Lake EWT, Essex - August

Roller – South Gare, Cleveland – August

Snowy Owl – Greinetobht, North Uist - August

Long-tailed SkuaQueen Mother Reservoir, London – September

Least Sandpiper Hayle Estuary, Cornwall – September

Wilson’s Phalarope Stithians Reservoir, Cornwall – September

Pectoral Sandpiper Slimbridge WWT, Gloucestershire – September

Pallid Harrier – Winterton, Norfolk – September

Short-toed LarkGreat Orme C.P Conwy – October

Woodchat Shrike Great Orme C.P Conwy – October

HoopoeLeamore, Walsall – October

Bonaparte’s Gull Newbiggin Bay, Northumberland – October

Glossy IbisPilling, Lancashire – October

Desert  Wheatear Cooden Beach, East Sussex – November

Little AukSnettisham RSPB, Norfolk – November

Shore larkSnettisham RSPB, Norfolk – November

Long-billed Murrelet – Dawlish, Devon – November

 Black-eared Kite – Colbeach, Lincolnshire – November (brief footage only)

Barrow’s Goldeneye – Callander, Forth -  November

Sabine's Gull - Westbay, Bridport, Dorset - December (brief footage only)

Falcated Duck - Bowling Green Marsh RSPB, Devon - December

Great Northern Diver – Chasewater, Staffordshire - December 

Ivory Gull –  Greenan, Ayrshire - December

Richardson’s Canada Goose East Chevington EWT, Northumberland – December

Black-throated DiverGlanderston Dam, Clyde – December

Ross’s Gull Ormsary Water, Argyll - December

Mega

 Escape/Unknown Origins / part of  Re-introduction scheme