Year list now 187

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Have only been on forum for short periods of time recently due to work shift patterns (it's comin in to busy period) so here's an update on what little birding I've been doing.

Saturday 25 August 2009
Went to Baron's Haugh and seen 4 Green Sandpiper along with 4 Common Sandpiper.
Friday 31 August 2009
Went to Baron's Haugh again and seen 2 Greenshank, 5 Green Sandpiper and 6 Black-tailed Godwit, the first of the wintering wildfowl, a male Wigeon and female Goldeneye...

Just my luck 2 Pectoral Sandpipers turn up at Inner Marsh Farm Cheshire the day after I visited. Still there today I hear. No chance for me work calls.

I've had a rare weekend off from work while the sun has been shinning - being a regular night worker, it was all a bit dazzling and overwhelming

My other half was in work until 10pm - so what to do on such a day with the house to myself? Catch up on housework, weed the garden - the neighbours are giving me menacing looks! Nah - go to the beach

Blackpool was buzzing today, crowds of people parading along the golden mile, scantily clad with kiss me quick hats,...