One of my duffer drawings... but it was done in the searing heat of Lithuania, when I was supposed to be making a tour of a "folk museum." At the start of May I showed you my " top spottings" from over the years ( and years) of bird-bothering .... and now it is time to "do" June in the same way. I expect a lot of you will have seen many of these as well. Mind you, the June stuff is rather less enthralling ... .. but on the other hand, it won't take you so long to read it. June 1st 1987 White-winged Black Tern at Leighton Moss. June 2nd 1992 Red-footed Falcon , Blackpool. 1988 My first flock of Scottish Crossbills at Abernethy. June 3rd Nowt. June 4th 1989 Glossy Ibis, Fairburn Ings, Yorks. 2003 Black Lark !!!!! South Stack, Holyhead. Blimey !!!!!! June 5th 1986 Broad-billed Sandpiper, Fleetwood, Lancs. 2014 Black-necked Grebe, Leighton Moss. June 6th 1993 Black-winged Stilt, Leighton Moss 1996 Whiskered Tern, Baby Doc, N. Lancs. June 7th Bog all. June 8th Zilch. June 9th Terek Sandpiper ( + fox) Seaforth. June 10th 1989 Roller, nr Glastonbury, Somerset. Wow ! June 11th Zero June 12th Nada June 13th Nul points. June 14th 1985 Pallas's Warbler, Jenny Brown's Point, Lancs. ( mad cycle after work) 1989 Caspian Tern, Killington Lake, Cumbria ( mad car dash after work) June 15th 1996 Spanish Sparrow, nr Wigtown, Cumbria. June 16th 1988 Temminck's Stint, Martin Mere. 2007 White-tailed Lapwing, Leighton Moss June 17th 1995 River Warbler, Wigan. June 18th Nuffink. June 19th Nought. June 20th Sod all. June 21st 2004 White Storks from the coach to Vilnius. Probably doesn't count. June 22nd Absolutely nothing. June 23rd More of absolutely nothing. June 24th 2001 Red-necked Phalarope Nel's Hide, Marshside Marsh. 2007 Hudsonian Whimbrel, Walney Island, Cumbria. June 25th Dim o gwbl = welsh for "nothing at all" June 26th 0 x 0 June 27th ( 2004 Flew back from Lithuania. ) June 28th (7x15) - (30 x 3½) June 29th 8³ - (2 to the power 9) June 30th überhaupt nichts. Well ... Far too many days of nowt ! (17 empty days) Compared to the May results, pretty duff.... ( only 8 empty days) Here's some links to some of those "events" up there ... 108-the-black-black-lark-and-me.html 123-the-cumbria-spanish-sparrow-a-new-perspective.html 288-when-i-was-in-lithuania-part-1.html 293-when-i-was-in-lithuania-part-2.html 389-when-i-was-in-lithuania-part-3.html 486-when-i-was-in-lithuania-the-final-installment.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And now, a "stirring" bit of Lithuanian " Neo-folk" music .... I only got 1 new "tick" in Lithuania, so my "World" list is just 1 more than my UK list.
I'm guessing that's a fairly unique situation .
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