There's the mysterious "Mr. G." at the Nutcracker site Here's another round-up of "rarity" sightings from my many Octobers in the past. There's a few "other" things in there too . OCT 1st Nothing. Oct 2nd 1995 White-crowned Sparrow, Seaforth. Woo ! Oct 3rd Zilch Oct 4th Zilch² ( Lee Evans' birthday)(1960) Oct 5th Nuffink Oct 6th 1996 Blue-winged Teal , Pennington Flash. Oct 7th Dim byd ( Welsh for nowt) Oct 8th 1995 Pec Sand, Leighton Moss Oct 9th 1988 Long-tailed Skua, Heysham Oct 10th Zilch³ Oct 11th Nowt Oct 12th Nowt at all. Oct 13th 2005 Hummingbird Hawk Moth in a neighbour's garden. Not actually a bird though. But I thought you ought to know. Oct 14th 2008 Ruddy Duck. Can't remember where it was. Oct 15th Nada. Oct 16th 1999 Short-billed Dowitcher, Greetham Creek , Middlesborough. Wizzard ! 2004 Ferruginous Duck , Public Hide, L. Moss. 2010 On this day, I became 22,222 days old. Oct 17th Absolutely devoid of owt. Oct 18th A veritable blasted heath of birdlessness. Oct 19th 1991 Nutcracker !!!! Stoke-on-Trent ... the entire birding world was there. 1991 Desert Warbler,Flamborough. Did we really get both on the same day ? * Oct 20th A barren promontory of barren barrenness. Oct 21st As above. Oct 22nd 1985 Marsh Warbler, Heysham. ( Dutch ringed) 2001 Great White Egret, Banks Marsh, Southport-ish. V. Rare then. Oct 23rd 1985 Yellow-browed Warbler, Heysham. 1999 Red-flanked Bluetail, Skegness. I think it came to a sticky end. 2002 St. Mary's, Scilly Wryneck Red-breasted Flycatcher Gt. Northern Diver Red-rumped Swallow. 2 Serins Oct 24th 1989 Pallas's Warbler, Jenny Brown's Point, Lancs. 1999 Red-breasted Flycatcher, Whitburn. 2002 St.Mary's, Scilly. Melodious Warbler Bluethroat Oct 25th 1997 Purple Gallinule, Roanhead, Dalton-in-Furness Oct 26th 1996 Great Knot, Seal Sands, Teesside 1996 Pallid Swift x 2, Flamborough .... terrific, in more ways than one. Oct 27th 1985 Black Stork, Walney Dump, Cumbria. 1997 Pied Wheatear, Seaforth Oct 28th After all that lot, a complete blank. Oct 29th Yet another complete blank. Oct 30th Yet another Scarcity of Rarities. Oct 31st 1995 American Golden Plover, Blackburn. So ..there we are. Sixteen blank days. But lots of terrific stuff in between. I've written about several of those events ..... and if/when I find them I'll put the links on here.
Well, I could only find this one .... 260-24th-october-2002-on-st-marys-ac-ati.html ...but there must be others. * Yes we did.
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