East Park

36 Species:

Black-Headed Gull, House Sparrow, Moorhen, Mallard, Goosander, Tufted Duck, Grey Heron, Great-Crested Grebe, Greylag Goose, Canada goose, Coot, Common Gull, Blue Tit, Greenfinch, Woodpigeon, Herring Gull, Pochard, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Sparrowhawk x2 (Male and Female, think we know were they are gonna nest :D ) Starling, Red-Crested Pochard, Goldfinch, Dunnock, Great Tit, Blackbird, Long-Tailed Tit, Goldcrest, Chaffinch, White-Fronted Goose, Tundra Bean Goose, Pintail, Collared Dove, Robin, Mute Swan and Pied Wagtail.


After finding the geese on the 21st, Jacko went for a quick hour round East Park today with his Dad (Jacko goes for a twitch in park a few times a week and Kempy occasionally goes too). Anyways, 3/4 of the way round Jacko comes across a right load of proper geeks, with tripods (triuss poduss) and big f*ck off cameras (bigii fooko offus camerii) !!! Blatantly obvious where the geese was! Some of these guys were like stood, waiting, next to their cameras for proper time! Not talking or anything, OH NO! All eyes were transfixed on these 2 f*cking geese. What the f*ck were they waiting for? Its only a couple of lame geese for f*ck sake, whats all the friggin' fuss about? Get a quick snap (hand-held of course) and f*ck off! Could of understood them hanging about for a couple of mins if a Goshawk was trying to whack one of the geese...

But it wasn't, and they're just a couple of f*cking geese!!!
The snappers were like the paparazzi would be if Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton were having a rug-munching 3some on the hard shoulder of the M62...

But they weren't, and they're just a couple of f*cking geese!!!

Hornsea Mere

51 Species

@ 12:38 Jacko gets the usual monday text off Kemp to say he had f*ck*d work off cos he can't be arsed and the weather is lush. Jacko had no work on either so 10 mins later Kemp was round Jackos. A quick trip to for Kemp to go to the sh*tter, get his handheld camera and don his blues and we were on the road, Spurn point being our destination. We stopped at BP garage on Hedon Road for fuel and refreshments and started ticking. Starling from the garage car park was number 1. On the way to Spurn we saw Common Gull, Woodpigeon, Blackbird, Magpie, Great Tit, Carrion Crow, Rook and Lapwing. We got through Patrington and visibility dropped from about 10 Kilometres down to about 10 Centimetres. We decided to sack Spurn off! A quick U-turn and we were on the main road to Withernsea and en route for Hornsea Mere. Through Withernsea we ticked Herring Gull, BH Gull, Collared Dove and House Sparrow. Next we stopped for a smoke and a twitch at a place called Fitling. We added Moorhen, Chaffinch, Pied Wagtail, Robin, Mistle Thrush and Fieldfare to the list.


Also a wader dropped into the field we were overlooking but we are both sh*t at waders (and warblers) so we couldn't ID it. Fags finished we continued on to Hornsea Mere. In the field before the Mere walk Kemp Twitched Greylag and Canada Geese and their were Jackdaws on the house roofs. 22 species so far and we were'nt even there yet!
Parked up opposite the Hornsea Mere footpath we got our benny hats and handhelds and got cracking. Mallard, Tufted Duck, Coot and... Jacko shouts "what the f*cks that!" , Kemp : "BITTERN!". Get in there!!! A lifer for both of us and a good bird for Hornsea Mere we thinks??? Anyways we was buzzing our little tits off :D :D :D
Carried on the walk and other birds we got in the 1st field were Wigeon, LT Tit, Wren and Goldeneye's trying to break their necks!!!
On to the next field and another Nice surprise with a funny looking Gull that turned out to be a Barn Owl hunting over the reeds. We both got record shots with our sh*t cameras but ya can sort of see what it is...


While running round the fields for a better pic of the Barney we saw Meadow Pipit, Pheasant, Goldfinch and Blue Tit.
In the next couple of fields there was not a lot going on but we did come across a big pile of feathers and a freshly decapitated crow sp. (the head was nowhere to be found)... Frig knows what elusive killer had whacked it???


We got to the road and the farmer was cutting the hedge so we had no chance of a hedge sparrow round here. We contemplated looking in his waste collection for a dead one but couldn't be arsed rooting about so we cracked on toward the house. On way we got Cormorant, Mute Swan, Treecreeper, Song Thrush, GSW and a fine looking bird with a tight arse walking her dogs! At the end of our walk (at the house with the feeder ; ) ) Greenfinch, Coal Tit and Goldcrest were added. About turn and we were on our way back to the car again. On the way we saw a pure white female pheasant. Is this rare? Has anyone come across this before? We again saw 'THE' Barn Owl also Reed Bunting, Gadwall, Shoveler, GBB Gull and Kempy ran after some Bullfinches for a decent pic with the Bullfinch song ringing out from his mobile! HaHaHa!


Then Jacko picked out a smart looking Long-tailed Duck "billy no-mates" on the Mere. Our last find of the day was to be a cracking male DUNNOCK that Kemp found just before we got to the car.

With the sun setting and the fog coming in we were happy with our afternoon of chav-twitching at the Mere. Some good birds on our day list (we think so anyway) and a few record shots too with our FUJIFILM S5700 sh*tty handhelds!

Trip To The Coast

61 species

Saturday 9th February

Cliff "Face"!!!
Kempy picked Jacko up as Planned in the Focus hire car @ 07:15.
We were debating whether or not to do the trip in our MAXED Vauxhall Nova's, but decided against it because the dump valves might scare the birds and make us even more unpopular with the GEEKS! (if possible?)
Anyway we set off and we were treated to our 1st Raptor of the day in the form of a Kestrel having a kip on a lamp post on the exit road from 'Ull.
We headed For the coast and the venues were to be Filey Dam's, Filey Brigg and Bempton Cliffs RSPB.

Arrived at Filey Dam's @ 08:10,on arrival in car park we were suprisingly greeted by a fellow twitcher who for once was willing to have a polite chat with us and pointed out Two GSW's he happened to notice behind us, thanks mate, shows your not all TW*TS!
We got Robin, Tree Sparrow, Magpie, Woodpigeon, Dunnock, Wren, Blackbird, Jackdaw, Chaffinch, Carrion Crow, Starling, Mallard, Tufted Duck, Coot, Blue Tit, Common Gull, Pheasant and Collared Dove on the way to 'East Pool Stash'.
In the stash we ticked Mute Swan, 2x Barnacle Geese, Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, Teal, Shelduck, Black-Headed Gull and Gadwall.
We then ticked Moorhen, Rook and Greylag Goose in the 'Main Stash'.

Got back in car and headed to the cafe for our breakfast, cheers luv it was super.
Only problem was that the coffee we had to go with the one before we left had taken there toll on us.
By the time we arrived on top of the cliff in the country park, poor Jacko was 'Hanging out' with the rumbles and in great need of a crap.
So we ticked the Skylarks that were only yards away from us on the deck and got a swift walk on down the steps to the beach getting goldfinch and Meadow Pipit on the way.
Got safely to the toilets and in the nick of time as kempy had also developed bowel movements so this turned out to be Jackos highlight for the day, or definately his biggest relief.

So, that done, we headed for the brigg on way we had Sanderling, Redshank, Dunlin, Turnstone and Oystercatchers also a great looking Fulmar blogging around cliffs.

We next headed out onto the Brigg and WOW! so many pot-holes, Boy that thing needs re-surfacing!!
Possible diver on the sea but just too far for bins, so headed out and got Ringed Plover, Knot, Eider and Purple Sandpiper.

IGNORANT TWITCHER!!
Back near the hide a chap in usual green and brown gear etc started to walk away (looked to avoid us) so kempy got him!
He went over and asked if he had seen the bird that he thought was a possible diver? The bloke then proceeded to say...WHAT? A BIRD??? "No a Scuba-Diver ya daft c*nt!" Well f*ck*ng hell did we laff what a loaf of bread he was..(THICK CUT!)
We proceeded toward the ladder where we saw Rock Pipit and 2 extremely tidy Herring gulls.

Surprising how scared we was going up the ladder and cliff (age catching up with us I think).

Back on top of the cliff we were welcomed by the sound of skylarks up in the air and in song, spring is here!
Guillemot, Cormorant and Curlew while on cliff face. Did lap of field where we got Great Tit and Kestrel hunting...

WE LOVE RAPTORS!!!

Back in car and travelled to Bempton, Lapwing and Grey Partridge seen en route.
Went to cliff top to get Kempy the Gannet lifer he wanted...
At the feeders twitched Greenfinch, Reed Bunting and a MASSIVE FAT SCARY RAT!!

Dipped our bogey Short-eared Owl and headed for car.
Called in at Danes Dyke got treated to Treecreeper, Long-Tailed Tit, Goldcrest, House Sparrow and GSW again.
Our total was stuck on 58 so we popped to leven canal on way home and ticked Canada Goose on way, then Song Thrush at the canal, and yet another GSW!
To make it even better and feel more like spring we were treated to a greenfinch in full song which is
Jacko's favourite and got him nice and chuffed,if only i'd heard my favourite! (Bullfinch)
Our total was on 60 a nice round figure, only to see a sparrowhawk been mobbed by a crow to make it a odd number on 61! We scanned the next 2 1/2 miles to try hit our bogey Wagtail or even worse our weekend bogey
Grey Heron but failed miserably! Got back to Jacko's @ 15:30 absolutely knackered!

Welcome

Hi fellow twitchers. Welcome to our new blog dedicated to chavving and birdwatching to make Chav Twitching! Aiii!
First of all let me tell you that this is not meant in anyway to offend any birdwatchers.
We like it ourselves but are just looking at it from a different (hopefully humerous) perspective.
We are called Michael and Chris and we are from 'Ull, East Yorkshire, England.
We would prefer to be known as Jacko and Kempy innit!
We aren't chavs really but the odd f*ck*ng geek we see while out twitching gives us funny looks or tuts and makes us kind of not fit in. C*nts!
Perhaps this is because we always dress in Blue, Instead of traditional Khaki Green or camoflage, and we wear trainers... And the occasional baseball cap!
We don't sit about in hides scanning flocks of gulls or ducks for hours on end (cos its well gay!).
We just like the fresh air, the walk, the nature, and the chance to see the odd horny horse-rider chick give us a wave ;)















Chav Twitching 10 commandments:

1.Thou shall always wear blue.
2.Thou shall always call hides - STASHES.
3.Thou shall never put a camera on a tripod or pillow, Handheld all the way!!!
4.Thou shall not tell friends where you really went at the weekend.
5.Thou shall not admit to knowing anything about birds until she is smitten.
6.Thou shall not be seen dead with bins round neck..full stop!
7.Thou shall never pays subs or purchase a pager!
8.Thou shall not travel the length of the country for a new tick.
9.Thou shall have as many feeders in garden as poss to encourage raptors.
10.Thou shall not have a Life list, Yorkshire list, Year list or Bogey birds.