Here's my roundup of the highlights of all of my previous "Julys" It's considerably less gripping compared to my May/June roundups... 878-june-highlights-from-the-past.html 855-many-magnificent-may-days.html Brace yourselves for an overwhelming onslaught of emptiness.. July 1st. Nowt July 2nd Nowt again July 3rd Double nowt July 4th Zilcheroony July 5th 1987 My first ever Little Egret ... a mad twitch to Freckleton. Woo! July 6th 2000 Pectoral Sandpiper, Stocks Reservoir July 7th 1997 Collared Pratincole, Pilling Lane Ends. Terrific. July 8th Nuthink. July 9th 1986 Buff-breasted Sandpiper my 1st, Cley. July 10th 1988 Bridled Tern, Cemlyn Bay, Anglesey ... ace ! July 11th 1999 Gt. White Egret nr Morpeth, Northumbs. V. rare then. July 12th 2002 Canvasback .. Pennington Flash. No rings. Full- winged. Tick 355 July 13th Nada. July 14th 2004 Two Black-necked Grebes at L. Moss. July 15th 1984 White-rumped Sandpiper , Conder Green, Lancs 1996 Spanish Sparrow, Wigton, Cumbria ... all the world was there.. July 16th Bog all. July 17th Dim byd ( = nothing in Welsh) July 18th Absolutely nothing at all. July 19th 1986 First Spoonbill at Titchwell ( Tickwell) + Buff-breasted Sandpiper 1988 Greater Sand Plover, Walney, Cumbria July 20th 1987 My first Long-tailed Duck. 2005 Sooty Tern, Cemlyn Bay ... 370th tick. July 21st Absolutely nothing not nowhere nowhow. July 22nd Complete absence of anythink remotely rare. July 23rd. 1979 Little Auk ( dead as the proverbial doornail) on beach at St. Mary's Island, Northumberland. 1986 My very first Golden Oriole, Lakenheath, Norfolk. Lovely !! July 24th 1990 Pacific Golden Plover, Pilling, Lancs July 25th 1986 My first Stone Curlew at the legendary Weeting Heath. July 26th er ... July 27th um ... July 28th ( scratches head) July 29th ( puts plaster on scratch) July 30th (plaster falls off) July 31st 2000 Pec Sand + Hobby at Leighton Moss. Well ... 15 empty days. Oh, the agony !! That's almost half a month's worth of emptyness. "Emptyness, emptyness The only gift that I possess ! I think right now I should confess Everything I do ends up in a birdless and rarity-less mess." Music Time .. "Leere" = emptiness in your actual German .. You can probably guess what " Rebell" means.
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