Post by kentyeti on Oct 13, 2016 8:45:20 GMT
I have posted this on WAB, which I still use occasionally because of it's wide coverage. I tried to add to it today, but I think they are still having problems. It rejected my normal password, and then rejected the new one they sent me!
So here is the post, plus the addition at the end that I couldn't make on WAB.
"............Does anyone here know anything much about this location and the Bird Observatory please?
With my Short-eared Owl book getting close to a finished state, I am focusing much more clearly on the observation work I still need to do over the next couple of years. Which is the timescale I am now thinking about before getting a sort of publication team of relevant professionals together to get it published.
That location in East Yorkshire seems to get a lot of SEO activity around migration time, and I believe at other times as well. It is also in a very convenient location so far as other places where I hope to continue such as my breeding season observations, (Langholm Moor and North Northumberland), and so far as observation work I plan to do on the West Coast not far down from Langholm. So it fits into a nice round trip for me every so often!
I wonder how good the views are from there out over the North Sea? And if the Observatory is such a place where I would be allowed to view from, benefiting from others who may be on sea watch at the same time. I have done more than 70 hours of sea watching on the Isle of Sheppey this week, and on my own it is hard work and I will be missing owls coming in. I have seen two though! Sadly I would be no help in identifying any other birds arriving, my ID skills are appalling, always have been, so with birds I stick to just the few I know well. And don't always get them right!
Anyway, any advice on that general location re watching Short-eared Owls will be welcome.
NOW ADDED: Alternatively, if there is another East coast location from Yorkshire up to Northumberland, that has a bird observatory reporting sightings daily on-line, about which anyone here has details, please let me know! Although, Flamborough looks to be ideal for my purpose, even if I have no initial contact with the observatory there. It is a hot spot for reporting arriving Shorties in autumn, and they seem to stay and hunt nearby too...."
I've added yesterday's 12 hour sea watch on Sheppey. During which I saw a few geese coming in, and a small flock of small birds come off the North Sea and fly straight over my car! Goldfinch size or thereabouts.
Cheers,
Bryan
So here is the post, plus the addition at the end that I couldn't make on WAB.
"............Does anyone here know anything much about this location and the Bird Observatory please?
With my Short-eared Owl book getting close to a finished state, I am focusing much more clearly on the observation work I still need to do over the next couple of years. Which is the timescale I am now thinking about before getting a sort of publication team of relevant professionals together to get it published.
That location in East Yorkshire seems to get a lot of SEO activity around migration time, and I believe at other times as well. It is also in a very convenient location so far as other places where I hope to continue such as my breeding season observations, (Langholm Moor and North Northumberland), and so far as observation work I plan to do on the West Coast not far down from Langholm. So it fits into a nice round trip for me every so often!
I wonder how good the views are from there out over the North Sea? And if the Observatory is such a place where I would be allowed to view from, benefiting from others who may be on sea watch at the same time. I have done more than 70 hours of sea watching on the Isle of Sheppey this week, and on my own it is hard work and I will be missing owls coming in. I have seen two though! Sadly I would be no help in identifying any other birds arriving, my ID skills are appalling, always have been, so with birds I stick to just the few I know well. And don't always get them right!
Anyway, any advice on that general location re watching Short-eared Owls will be welcome.
NOW ADDED: Alternatively, if there is another East coast location from Yorkshire up to Northumberland, that has a bird observatory reporting sightings daily on-line, about which anyone here has details, please let me know! Although, Flamborough looks to be ideal for my purpose, even if I have no initial contact with the observatory there. It is a hot spot for reporting arriving Shorties in autumn, and they seem to stay and hunt nearby too...."
I've added yesterday's 12 hour sea watch on Sheppey. During which I saw a few geese coming in, and a small flock of small birds come off the North Sea and fly straight over my car! Goldfinch size or thereabouts.
Cheers,
Bryan
