More hours on the tarmac, this time down country to Somerset, long before dawn broke on another cold, grey day. Elvis channelled by a Belfast postman - keep driving. Some type of non-linear time epiphany while stuck in the inevitable M5/M6 rush-hour log-jam (Yam Yam carbon monoxide levels'll do that everytime) - keep driving. Waving…

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25.02.2025

It’s the little things… | John Dempsey Birdblog

In an upended world, it's the little things that keep us going. So there I was in Somerset again this morning, scouring Steart Marshes WWT for the tiniest wader on the planet, so diminutive it's apparently even teeny weenier than the combined wit, intelligence and humanity of the current residents of Pennsylvania Avenue (well, Least…

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08.03.2025

Shake a leg. | John Dempsey Birdblog

M'learned friend Mike Stocker informs me that the Little Ringed Plover I bumped into at Marshside this lunchtime (a Wheatear-aspiration fuelled detour on the way to a job), was 11 days earlier than the first bird last year. The LRP was pattering about on the big mudbank off Sandgrounders Hide just before 1pm - there'll…

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10.03.2025

Light and shade | John Dempsey Birdblog

That cold north easterly was doing no-one any favours this morning as the sun skulked behind a stubborn bank of cloud while I gave Marshside a once over, and cursed the fickle weather of early spring. Less than 24 hours before Commas and Peacocks were tottering about in the garden at Dempsey Towers. Any butterfly…

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