CORVO

Found a Rose-breasted Grosbeak today and saw the American Redstart again.
Birding teams present on Corvo now include the Spanish Armada (Rafa and Ferran), the Belgian Chocolates (Vincent and Fred), the French Fries (Pierre and Eric), the Swedish Meatballs (Staffan and Olof) and the English Breakfast (Me, Darryl and Simon).
The Armada found a new Ovenbird and the French found a Baltimore Oriole- which I 'need' for the Azores.
Other birds still present on the island include Black and White Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Red-eyed Vireo and 3 Willow Warblers. The Barwit is still on the airfield.

CORVO

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Finally made it here. Within an afternoon we tracked down American Redstart, Black-throated Green Warbler, Black and White Warbler and Common Nighthawk. Enough said. Cheers for the photo Darryl.

Azorean Gull

http://surfbirds.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5869 Could be one of these in Oxfordshire, UK. Looks good to me.

Corvo awaits

Still on Terceira waiting for the next plane to Corvo. This will be my third attempt at getting there in the last week so fingers crossed for tomorrow.

We went round the Terceira sites today to kill time. The quarry still held the White-winged Black Tern and pretty much the same waders and ducks as yesterday.

At Angra we found a Sandwich Tern and 3 Common Scoters, which we tried to string into Black Scoters but the bill shape and the taperng rear neck line point towards a European origin.

American Golden Plover at Cabo da Praia quarry.

Terceira, the Azores

Back on Terceira today.
In the quarry a juvenile White-winged Black Tern, 2 Semi-palmated Sandpiper, 2 Semi-palmated Plover, 2 American Golden Plover, 1 Pectoral Sandpiper, 1 Long-billed Dowitcher, 1 Spotted Sandpiper (the one with the long tail?) 1 Blue-winged Teal, 2 Teal, 5 Ruff, 2 Curlew Sandpiper, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 7 Whimbrel, 7 Blackwit, 5 Grey Plover, 2 Ringed Plover, 2 Dunlin, 50+ Turnstone, 40+ Sanderling, 30+ Kentish Plover and 10 Knot.

Found this juvenile American Herring Gull 220225 update- probably not AMHG but not sure what it is -maybe something from Iceland ? in the harbour. Also Common Sandpiper there.

Beddington Farmlands Community Tour with BBC's 'The One Show', David Lindo (THE URBAN BIRDER)

A good turn out for today's Beddington Farmlands Birding Tour. Highlight was a single Jack Snipe and also 2 Common Snipe, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 8 Shoveler, 40+ Teal, 30+ Lapwing, 24 Grey Herons, 5 Little Grebe, 10+ Tufted Duck, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Kingfisher, 1 Sparrowhawk and 2 Kestrel. Overhead migrants included 15+ Meadow Pipit and 3 Skylarks.

Other members of the BFBG also saw 7 Dunlin, Stonechat and 3 Water Rail.

Jack Snipe

Common Snipe

David Lindo (right)- 'The Urban Birder' http://www.urbanitybirder.blogspot.com/- A Beddington Farmlands Urban Nature Reserve Champion with Roger Browne (left) and Kim Dixon.

BEDDINGTON FARMLANDS NEW WEBSITE:

http://www.beddingtonfarmlands.org.uk/

More on the Beddington Farmlands Campaign here:

http://peteralfreybirdingnotebook.blogspot.com/2009/08/beddington-farm-campaign.html

Back at the obs

Saw Blackwit this morning from the obs and also had a Buzzard in the afternoon.
Also just fitted 40 inch LCD screen, blu-ray home cinema with surround sound- watched Planet Earth.