Thanks to all those who took part in our Christmas Bird Quiz, we had a really great response, so thanks to all those who took part and helped support our land purchase in Kilnsea.
19 December 2020
On the fundraising theme we have now sold out of calendars and the auctions have both ended. We are leaving the GoFundMe page open, if you'd like to donate towards our land purchase you can still do so here. Further announcements to be made about the fundraising effort going forward
Congratulations to the top 5 entrants who all take away a prize, they are
1.) Nick Oliver with 48/50 wins a three-year subscription to the Rare Bird Alert website and bird news app (worth approx. £480)
2.) Paul Baxter with 47/50 who wins a Single life time Friends of Spurn membership (worth £450);
3.) Graham Coney with 46/50 who wins a copy of The Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds – Passerines, two volume set (value £130)
4.) Mark Edgellar with 45/50 who wins a mounted gilcee print of the 2016 Easington Siberian Accentor by Ian Lewington
5.) A 4-way drawer on 44/55 - tie break underway! For the copy of 'The Birds of Spurn' & the Spurn 2021 calendar.
And the answers that everyone has been waiting for!
1. Spotted Flycatcher
2.Stephen Moss
3. Red-eyed Vireo
4. American Robin
5. Common Whitethroat
6. 2013
7. Common Sandpiper
8. Pintail; her name is Dafila (dafila is the old scientific name for a pintail)
9. Short-eared Owl
10. Sparrow Hawk
11. Great Spotted Cuckoo
12. Bittern
13. Iceland Gull
14. Collared Dove
15. Smew
16. 1993
17. Glaucous-winged Gull
18. Green Sandpiper
19. White-throated Sparrow
20. Waxwing
21. Western Sandpiper
22. Canvasback
23. Black Redstart
24. 13
25. Lapland Bunting
26. Ivory Gull
27. Ptarmigan
28. Cattle Egret
29. Brunnich’s Guillemot
30. Puffin
31. Garden Warbler
32. Barrow’s Goldeneye
33. Dark-eyed Junco
34. Blackbird
35. Common Nightingale
36. American Royal Tern
37. Spotted Redshank
38. Baltimore Oriole
39.Citrine Wagtail
40. Lapwing
41. Brown Shrike
42. Golden-winged Warbler
43. Brambling
44. Little Crake
45. Red-breasted Flycatcher
46. Mourning Dove
47. American White-winged Scoter
48. Desert Warbler
49. Cliff Swallow
50. Lesser Yellowlegs
Total Points = 50
Big thanks to all who supplied prizes for this quiz!
