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Birding Never Sleeps
01.05.2025
Thursday 24 April . Widewater 06:05-08:05, light NE, moderate visibility, with RP: Shelduck 2E, Common Scoter 3E, Great Crested Grebe 1 ...
24.04.2025
Monday 14 April . Widewater 06:20-09:20, light/moderate SW, very clear, with RP: Brent Goose 13E, Common Scoter 105E, Oystercatcher 5E, ...
14.04.2025
Tuesday 08 April . Widewater 06:10-09:10, light/mod NE, clear, with RP: Brent Goose 140E, Common Scoter 32E, Great Crested Grebe 1 o...
08.04.2025
Tuesday 01 April . Widewater 06:45-09:15. Moderate NE, clear: Brent Goose 28E, Canada Goose 1W & 1 on lagoon, Mute Swan 26, Shelduc...
02.04.2025
Friday 21 March . Widewater, 05:50-08:50, moderate SSE, clearish : Brent Goose 48E, Common Scoter 65E, Red-breasted Merganser 1 o/sea, Gr...
21.03.2025
Wednesday 12 March . Widewater 06:25-09:30, light NNE, clear: Brent Goose 703E, Common Scoter 35E, Red-breasted Merganser 5 pairs o/sea, ...
12.03.2025
Saturday 01 March . Southwick Canal/Lockgates with Megan and Otis: distant male Eider , no Dartford Warbler. Sunday 02 March . Steepdown w...
Sunday 09 March . A disappointing seawatch at Widewater from 06:45-07:45 produced just 2 Common Scoter flying east, 4 Red-breasted Merganse...
09.03.2025
We visit Brooklands once or twice a month. I've seen a few nice birds there over the years but we go more because its an easy place for a do...
01.03.2025
Monday 17 February . Brooklands with Megan and Otis: 3 Little Grebes , Peregrine (over coast road) and Chiffchaff . Middle Road: female Lor...
25.02.2025
NE India part 3: Mishmi Hills and home (19-24 January 2025) This is the third and final blog giving my take on an Ornis Birding Expeditions...
19.02.2025
Introduction : I visited Eaglenest in April 2007 ( here ) and although it was a good trip I had missed a few birds making it a part of the w...
Wednesday 05 February . Mill Hill with Megan and Otis: Buzzard , Green Woodpecker , Skylark (heard) and 5 Song Thrushes . Thursday 06 Febru...
NE India part 2: Namdapha (14-18 January 2025) This the second of three blog posts giving my take on an Ornis Birding Expeditions trip ...
I've never been too interested in day lists, I regard birding as a marathon rather than a sprint, but it is always nice to see my first 100 ...
27.01.2025
Sunday 26 January 2025 . Recently returned from North East India and with gale force winds and heavy showers I took Otis to Shoreham Fort wh...
09.01.2025
I started the year slowly, not helped by poor weather. Wednesday 01 January 2025 . Widewater, the Adur and Middle Road. Seawatching was very...
02.01.2025
I found December hard going, lack of motivation having returned from Argentina and a combination of miserable weather and it being fairly un...
23.12.2024
Southern Argentina part 5: La Angostura to El Calafate and home (25-30 November) The final part of my blog giving my take on a very enjoya...
20.12.2024
Southern Argentina part 4: Puerto San Julian to La Angostura (23-24 November) A continuation of my blog giving my take on a very enjoyab...
18.12.2024
Southern Argentina part 3: Valdez Peninsular to Puerto San Julian (20-22 November) A continuation of my blog giving my take on a very enjoya...
14.12.2024
Southern Argentina part 2: Bahia Blanca to Puerto Madryn (17-19 November) This is the second or five blogs covering an Ornis tour to Sou...
08.12.2024
This is the first of several blogs covering a trip to Southern Argentina with Ornis. Photographs are mostly mine taken with a Sony RX10iv ...
15.11.2024
Saturday 09 November . I was preparing to visit Mill Hill when I rather belatedly noticed an earlier WhatsApp message about a female Pied Wh...
13.11.2024
UNST Autumn 2024: part 3 (11-16 October) Friday 11 October . Overcast with a moderate north-west wind. We walked down to Valyie seeing what...
UNST Autumn 2024: part 4 the long journey home (17-19 October) Thursday 17 October . In mist and heavy rain Dave took me to the bus stop fo...
12.11.2024
UNST Autumn 2024: part 2 (06 to 10 October) Sunday 06 October . Cloudy with very light southerly winds. We walked to Valyie Skaw seeing a ...
11.11.2024
Saturday 02 November . Megan and I drove down to Weymouth with Otis, stopping for a walk around Maiden Castle on the way and arriving when a...
02.11.2024
Sunday 20 October . Back to the reality of birding in Sussex: 2 Jays in Buckingham Park with Megan and Otis. Monday 21 October . Adur Rec ...
27.10.2024
UNST Autumn 2024: part 1 - 30 September to 05 October Monday 30 September . Megan dropped me by the bus stop in Shoreham-by-Sea and I caught...
30.09.2024
I've found it hard to stay motivated this autumn and as a result have stayed very local and as a result seen very little of note. Mostly wit...
15.09.2024
Saturday 31 August . Megan and I flew with Vueling from Gatwick to Bilbao. We hired a car and drove west along the coast for an hour or so t...
31.08.2024
Friday 16 August . Beeding Hill triangle with Otis, 08:45-12:45: 6 Buzzards , Great Spotted Woodpecker , 2 Kestrels , 2 Ravens , 20 Swall...
22.08.2024
ALASKA 2024 part 6: Bethel and Homer (28 June-01 July) Friday 28 June . We grabbed breakfast as it was being put out, left gear in store and...
16.08.2024
Birding is still taking a bit of a back seat with Otis is settling in. He is not used to being left on his own even for short periods so it ...
31.07.2024
ALASKA 2024 part 5: Nome (24-27 June) Monday 24 June . We were taken from American's Best motel to the airport at 05:30, grabbing some bre...
26.07.2024
ALASKA 2024 part 4: Denali circuit (20-23 June) Thursday 20 June . We had breakfast just before 06:00 and left at 06:30 to drive to Hatcher ...
20.07.2024
ALASKA 2024 part 3: Seward/Kenai Fjord (17-19 June) Monday 17 June . Nick and I went to Spenard Lake from 05:30-6:15 and the cycle track opp...
16.07.2024
ALASKA 2024 part 2: Barrow (14-16 June) Friday 14 June . It remained light all night. I looked out a few times but our room's view was not i...
15.07.2024
Dogs . With Cookie no longer with us we were keen to have another dog but it was proving difficult to find one although we saw one we hoped...