When there's a male Dotterel at the end of the line the trek across the breach at Spurn on a bright, breezy afternoon is no hardship. My latest trip east for three days on Wednesday started off with a highly motivated forced march down the Point. A late Fieldfare whizzed past me heading north at…

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07.06.2025

Trainspotting | John Dempsey Birdblog

Swirling vortexes of speeding air currents occasionally flushed it as the high-speed Lime Street to Euston trains whooshed by, threatening to suck the bird into high quality screen splatter, but the Woodchat Shrike at Daresbury seemed happy enough. Not seen one for a few years (the 2021 Aith bird on Shetland seems to be my…

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10.06.2025

Branching out | John Dempsey Birdblog

The street gang of Jackdaws noisily descending on the bottom of the garden at Dempsey Towers was a clue - either this year's Tawny Owl young were "branching" or a Buzzard was trying to roost in the birch trees. A stroll answered the question yesterday - two Tawny youngsters, the bigger of the two playing…

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02.07.2025

The Wetlands weren’t. | John Dempsey Birdblog

The shrill calls of a trio of Common Sandpipers rock-hopping along the training wall at the Alt during a survey on Friday got me all autumnal. It was all it took to send me east to Spurn for a couple of days, away from work, the bleached summer dunes and basking Sand Lizards. I pulled…

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