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		<title>Foul weather, but a fine end to the year</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Glinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve not done a lot of birding this year: a new family member who keeps me happily preoccupied with public transport on many of my weekend days off, an exceptional workload, and a period of ill-health saw to that. But today, my last day of birding for 2011, was a great ending which has enthused [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=throughaglassdarklyblog.com&#038;blog=6959231&#038;post=607&#038;subd=simonglinn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glaucous Gull ~ Larus hyperboreus ~ at Birkdale</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Glinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This 1st winter Glaucous Gull ~ Larus hyperboreus ~ has been at Birkdale, Merseyside, since around 20th December 2011. It&#8217;s feeding well but has a gammy right leg and lies down for long periods (as you will see) &#8230; let&#8217;s hope it makes it. I caught up with it today &#8211; it was very, very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=throughaglassdarklyblog.com&#038;blog=6959231&#038;post=600&#038;subd=simonglinn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Short-toed Lark at Fleetwood Marsh</title>
		<link>http://throughaglassdarklyblog.com/2011/04/25/short-toed-lark-at-fleetwood-marsh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Glinn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lancashire]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warm April continues, although my own birding opportunities have been a bit limited, but the month began with a fine trip through North Wales with Andy and Bones that included Black Grouse lekking, dozens of Crossbills and Redpolls, a Purple Heron and some Choughs. A couple of visits to Marshside had been relatively disappointing as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=throughaglassdarklyblog.com&#038;blog=6959231&#038;post=597&#038;subd=simonglinn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moore and Pennington Flash</title>
		<link>http://throughaglassdarklyblog.com/2011/02/13/moore-and-pennington-flash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Glinn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bullfinch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columba oenas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marsh Tit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andy P and I arrived at Moore at first light yesterday, full of hope for a day of Willow Tits, Woodpeckers, and White-winged Gulls. Four hours later, despite a few GSW, and even with the knowledge that if we could get round to oversee Richmond Bank we&#8217;d find a lot of good gulls including Caspian, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=throughaglassdarklyblog.com&#038;blog=6959231&#038;post=586&#038;subd=simonglinn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Flit Around The Fylde</title>
		<link>http://throughaglassdarklyblog.com/2011/01/09/a-flit-around-the-fylde/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 19:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Glinn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mergus serrator]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday morning saw Django and me in Andy Pryce&#8217;s car before first light heading off to Fairhaven Lake near Lytham for a squint at the Red-Necked Grebe that&#8217;s been there for most of the past week. We found it almost immediately, very close to us in the easterly corner of the lake. The sun was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=throughaglassdarklyblog.com&#038;blog=6959231&#038;post=574&#038;subd=simonglinn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Midwinter Miscellany</title>
		<link>http://throughaglassdarklyblog.com/2010/12/28/a-midwinter-miscellany/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Glinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were some very enjoyable birding days in December. Early in the month, being on leave from work, I was visiting Hesketh Park in Southport almost daily, and the Marine Lake from time to time as well, during the first big freeze. The latter brought regular sightings of a 1st winter drake Scaup and plenty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=throughaglassdarklyblog.com&#038;blog=6959231&#038;post=563&#038;subd=simonglinn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waxwings and beer, but no Iceland Gull</title>
		<link>http://throughaglassdarklyblog.com/2010/11/21/waxwings-and-beer-but-no-iceland-gull/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Glinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bones, Django and I took the first X2 bus of Sunday into Preston, meeting Pete Kinsella on board. Preston has had a spate of good birds in recent days with an Iceland Gull on Preston Docks, and large numbers of Waxwings, which had also been seen by the docks. So to the docks we went, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=throughaglassdarklyblog.com&#038;blog=6959231&#038;post=555&#038;subd=simonglinn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pied-billed Grebe nr Rochdale</title>
		<link>http://throughaglassdarklyblog.com/2010/11/16/pied-billed-grebe-nr-rochdale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Glinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Took the train to Smithy Bridge nr Rochdale early this morning, and managed to locate the Pied-billed Grebe on Hollingsworth Lake that&#8217;s been around for a week or so before it got too busy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=throughaglassdarklyblog.com&#038;blog=6959231&#038;post=550&#038;subd=simonglinn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Simon Emmerson&#8217;s Weirdy Birdy Mix</title>
		<link>http://throughaglassdarklyblog.com/2010/10/12/simon-emmersons-weirdy-birdy-mix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Glinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way back in the dim-and-distant past I worked as a tour manager for some bands I really liked, including Cheikh Lo, and Afro Celt Sound System. Simon Emmerson of Afro Celts has always been a man involved with musical developments that have interested me too, and it was no surprise to find he&#8217;s something of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=throughaglassdarklyblog.com&#038;blog=6959231&#038;post=537&#038;subd=simonglinn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spotshanks and Greenshanks</title>
		<link>http://throughaglassdarklyblog.com/2010/09/26/spotshanks-and-greenshanks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Glinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trolls having been exorcised, it was good to head back to Marshside after a lengthy change of routine. A Wheatear in the sandplant, vast flocks of Goldfinches and Starlings, Mipits seemingly on the move, and a Short-eared Owl way off over Crossens Outer were early highlights. A liberal sprinkling of Little Egrets, and a Goldcrest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=throughaglassdarklyblog.com&#038;blog=6959231&#038;post=534&#038;subd=simonglinn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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