Yes, here's a selection of my exciting sightings in previous Aprils .. I think I've "done" all the other months now ...here we go then ..... 1st April Nowt. 2nd 1985 Black Grouse, my first, with Mr. G somewhere on the Pennine Way. 3rd Nuthink. 4th 1997 Rough-legged Buzzard, Dunsop Valley. ( + Goshawk) 5th -7th A barren wilderness. 8th 2008 White-Spotted Bluethroat, Sedburgh ( 374th tick) 9th 2004 2 Red-Rumped Swallows, Farnham Gravel pits. Woo ! Also 1 brilliant Hoopoe ,Settle, same day. 10th 2001 1st-summer Iceland Gull, Heysham Harbour North Wall. 11th 1987 Green-Winged Teal, Leighton Moss. 2010 Me and Tony Parnell found a magnificent and huge White-tailed Eagle flying North over L.M. ( I spotted it first)(so there) ! 88-white-tailed-eagles-and-me.html 12th Zero. 13th 1991 Ring-necked Duck (f), Dockacres GP, 15th 1989 Richard's Pipit, Inskip, Lancs. 16th 2004 Black Tern, off Heysham Harbout North Wall. ( HHNW) 17th 2003 Ad Pom Skua HHNW ... the best Skua I've ever seen. 18th 2000 Rose-coloured Starling, 1st-Summer, Ripon. Plus a Waxwing in a treetop over the road . 20th 2001 1st-summer Glaucous Gull at Lancaster Tip ... now sadly gone .... the tip I mean .... and, presumably, the gull. 21st 2000 Blue-headed Wagtail, Milnethorpe Sewage Works. Plus 2 Black- necked Grebes at LM Public Hide. 2001 Crane flew North over Ripley Heights, Lancaster at 5pm. Coo ! House Tick !! 22nd 2001 Ferruginous Duck... can't remember where ! 23rd 1997 Glossy Ibis x2 at Pilling Lane Ends on the Fylde. Wizard ! + a Spoonbill. 1996 Spoonbill at EM Pools, LMoss. 24th ............. nothing !! 25th 1993 Little Bittern (!!) Leighton Moss . Hey-ho ! 1996 Red-rumped Swallow, Ormsgill Res, Barrow. 26th Nothing whatsoever. 27th 1996 Lesser Yellowlegs, Delph Lane, Warrington. ( Warrington!!) 28th 2009 No rarities, but a hefty earthquake whilst I was teaching students about conic sections. It felt like a lorry had bashed into the wall ! 29th 1987 Spotted Crake .... can't remember where. 30th A large amount of nothing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here's a fine U2 song ... "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" But who has ?
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