Nigel Wheatley

Author of above book about birding, from The Patch to Papua New Guinea, available at where one review says, 'the best of its type' 👍

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That's two of the 1987 Texas crew who have found wintering Least Sandpipers in Britain now! @Vaasetter and @nickwall865 Three to go.

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A canny seawatch from Cape Cornwall this morning 08:00-11:00 with @raoulhumph - Juvenile Sabine's Gull (at 10:55), 17 Balearic Shearwaters, 3 Sooty Shearwaters and 4 Arctic Skuas.

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At last, with the wind in the east, some birds to report on the patch between Cot Valley and Boscregan; Wryneck (near Letcha, south side of Cot), Water Rail, 4 Whinchats, 2 Firecrests and a Tree Pipit.

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@paulmarshall77 @CBWPS1 @BirdGuides @RareBirdAlertUK 29 Leach's! That's bloody gripping Paul. Didn't see one off the Cape (07:00-10:00)!

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Still no large shears off Cape Cornwall but a bloody Humpback breached three times behind The Brisons this morning! That was between 08:40 and 08:45. Then a few blows as it seemed to move off north. Mega.

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@Stewchat Same here Stewart. Once I know the kids are out of the house I'm going back in for me notebooks!

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@roxby_malcolm @MJLbirder @Vaasetter I concur Malcolm. Someone there said it looked like a flying Killer Whale, and Tony Clarke who had lived in Aus for a long time said they were the best views he had ever had. Mind you, it did fly past our heads, several times. Absolute mega bird and experience.

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@LeeEvansBirding Keep an eye on @CBWPS1 website today. When you say 3rd for Britain are you including the Grove Ferry bird on 16th Sep 2007?

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Looks like if I hadn't gone birding this morning I would've seen a first for Britain, since the Booted Eagle flew over a house just down the road from mine in St Just🙄🙁😒. I got the call but was on the patch at Boscregan, just too far south, and just the c200 Red Kites for me.

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@RossAhmed @BirdGuides Thanks Ross.

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@Vaasetter @BirdingN One of the best birds I've ever seen, in Britain, and the world. Cheers Eddie!
(Photograph ... yep, it's a photograph ... taken by Pete Wheeler I think)

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@pablohugelist Proper patch birder finds proper patch mega. So pleased for ya matey!

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@bigal7712 Try https://t.co/fOho01dUhy for gen and contacts my boy. Otherwise parks such as Dubai Creek Park should be good for migrants now, as well as residents such as Grey Francolin, Red-wattled Lapwing, Arabian Green Bee-eater and Purple Sunbird.

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@WiseBirding Indeed! What'll get you down here? Rock Thrush, Zitting Cisticola, Moussier's?

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Classic patch birding. 'Nothing to report' on repeat for weeks & weeks then bang bang; a sprig of gorse at the top of Cot Valley at 08:30 turns out to be a mega male Golden Oriole which then flew up Cot where a Purple Heron was flying around, before heading off south at 08:45!

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@AndrewMKinghorn Oriole or Heron? It's been a long, long, mostly grey, wet and/or windy winter and early spring Andrew but that 15 minutes this morning has made up for it! I liked your pic of that Great Bustard 'in habitat' by the way. All the best!

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@duncan_dine @Westburyjayner @SamWalker22 That's a mega there Andy! I used to go a lot when I were a lad and I think my best day was on the 30th of April 1984 when an Avocet was sweeping the shallows while four Black Terns and a Common Tern flew around! The wind had been in the ESE for a few days.

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@jtbirder323 @bigal7712 @ScillyMemories I think so Justin.

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@bigal7712 @ScillyMemories Pretty sure that's me (with the mullet!) left of No. 2, and I think that's Chief (aka Nick Cobb) right of No. 2 although I can't be sure because he's running and Chief was not often seen running when playing football😉