Yes, here's my round-up of my top March sightings from the dim and distant past ... and there aren't many of them. Mar 1st Nothing Mar 2nd 1986 My first Med Gull, the Blind Home , Blackpool. They were rare then ..... but not anymore. Mar 3 & 4 Nowt. Mar 5th 1994 Ross's Gull, Sunderland .. TERRRRRIFFFIC. Mar 6th - 10th Not a sausage. Mar 11th 1990 Terek Sandpiper, Blyth ,Northumbs.Ace !! 1990 Pine Bunting, Big Waters, Wideopen, Northumbs. Ace again !! Mar 12th A barren desert of nothingness Mar 13th 1994 Ross's Gull #2, Fleetwood, Lancs ..... blimey. Mar 14th-20th Zilch. Mar 21st. 1992 My first Kentish Plover, Fleetwood, Lancs. Excellent. Mar 22nd Nothing whatsoever. Mar 23rd 1985 White Stork , Bell Busk, N. Yorks. Mar 24th 1991 White-Billed Diver, Holyhead Harbour, Anglesey. Mar 25th Nothing at all, at all. Mar 26th 1987 Laughing Gull, Newcastle General Hospital, after several misses. Mar27th 2004 Alpine Swift ! Scalby Mills, Scarborough. Crikey !! Mar 28-31 A vast plain of emptiness. A pretty slim haul numerically, but some excellent stuff. I've written more details about some of them ... here's the links ... 41-white-billed-diver-twitch-and-straw-boaterists.html 126-the-newcastle-laughing-gull-and-me.html 794-march-2nd-1986.html 843-the-welsh-twitch.html (I can't find my gripping and potentially dangerous Pallid Swift encounter ... ... if any of you know where I've put it, please let me know. ) And now, a suitable (or not) bit of music .... after all, we were all Young Dudes once ....
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