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01.07.2025
Holly's AirBnB Hippy-chic Caravan is now up and running with lots of bookings. All are welcome to book. Bring the moth trap and a great plac...
A weekend around the Lodge again. Isaac and I did a walk to Mill Lane Marsh and back on Saturday- just a Blackwit and a couple of Teals ther...
28.06.2025
Another night of moth migration, presumably insects which arrived in the south west and now being pushed east. The suite of migrants was the...
About 300 moths last night of approx 78 species with a nice little haul of migrants. As hoped for, the migrants that arrived in the south w...
26.06.2025
It's been a steady few days mostly confined to the Lodge. The weekend heat wave gave way to a south westerly airflow by Monday but there was...
22.06.2025
With temperatures up to around 30 C by day and 18 C by night with a south easterly wind and the Summer Solstice too, this weekend has, as ho...
21.06.2025
Matt came over yesterday and we spent the day doing the garden and as usual discussing the head of the snake of the western world as you do ...
19.06.2025
I was hoping to get some work done today and over the summer doldrums but things as usual didn't go to plan. This time it wasn't due to one ...
18.06.2025
Another good migrant last night- Vagrant China-mark. 67 species of approx 200 individuals with a few garden ticks taking the garden moth lis...
16.06.2025
Big global news this week. The first unified global taxonomy of birds has been published - AviList, which is a consolidation of existing lea...
After a quiet night yesterday it seems the moth mgiration picked up again last night with Small Mottled Willow, 5 Four-spotted Footman, Deli...
15.06.2025
It's been a busy working week after getting back from Bulgaria, couldn't get out in the field but I managed to keep up the moth trapping and...
12.06.2025
This week marks the first anniversary of us moving into our new home. The garden bird list is now on 107 HERE with highlights including S...
09.06.2025
The moth trap was pretty good all week with about 70 species a night of about 120-150 individuals. Observations HERE . The project lep list...
08.06.2025
We spent the last two days of this trip in the Kamen Bryag area. Yesterday we started the day at Cape Kaliakra and then did the Balgarevo St...
06.06.2025
We spent the last couple of days in Burgas with Dylan and Anton doing a bit of herping and birding. We mainly seached the Anasavoska area H...
04.06.2025
The plan today was to work on the plot, get the meadow strimmed and complete the pond by laying stones around the edge. As usual things didn...
03.06.2025
It was mainly a faffing day today as we were supposed to be working on the plot but when we went to Kavarna to pick up the strimmer, that ha...
02.06.2025
Our Spring trip to the Bulgaria project was delayed this year so Kojak and I arrived yesterday and Dylan and Anton arrived today for a week ...
30.05.2025
We had a work day at the lodge today but I managed to get out in the early evening and checked Ferry and Church Norton. Highlight was a summ...
26.05.2025
After getting back from Kuwait on Monday, I had Tuesday to catch up, then working in London on Wednesday and then more or less two days pape...
22.05.2025
Things have developed with our Short-tailed Shearwater sightings off Kuwait and we now have six confirmed (by Bob Flood) individual birds (t...
21.05.2025
We started the day off at Al Jahra but dipped the Bank Myna again (I tried in January). There were a few migrants about HERE . We then head...
Put simply May 18th 2025 was one of my best birding days in the WP ever. We decided to go back to Al-Abraq to spend out last day at the oasi...
20.05.2025
We started the day off at Al Jahra Pools, 64 species of nearly 1000 individuals HERE and then we visisted Sulaibikhat HERE , next was a c...
19.05.2025
On 15th May, Omar Alshaheen, Abdulrahman Al-Sirhan, Humoud Alshayji, Mohammad Alazmi, Vincent Legrand, Julien Hainaut and I took a fishing b...
14.05.2025
Today turned into an exciting day and then ended a frustrating day. I started off at the Bill on the Seawatch where highlights included the ...
12.05.2025
It was mainly a family weekend with Steve's clan down for the weekend but I did a couple of hours at the Bill on Saturday morning HERE - thr...
09.05.2025
Took a walk today along the Medmerry Trail to check for Red-footed Falcon which have been influxing regionally for the last few days. Didn't...
08.05.2025
Decided to stay uber-local today and walked from the Lodge to Ferry this morning for a quick walk HERE before the school run and then spen...
07.05.2025
The colder northeasterlies are back and things have been pretty slow off the Bill. This morning's log HERE . Highlights were a Hobby in-off...
06.05.2025
Had a very pleasant (albiet rather cold) morning in the company of the Nightingale (s) on Chichester Canal. Also Cuckoo and Raven and stacks...
05.05.2025
At the seawatch this morning the only bird really on the move was Whimbrel with 22 moving east HERE and in the evening I did the walk from...
04.05.2025
The wind changed back round to the northeasterly this morning so expectations were higher than in yesterday's westerly. I missed a Red-necke...
Proud to be involved in this publication in Nature Journal/Scientific Reports (I did some of the donkey work trapping, ringing and collectin...
03.05.2025
Today was full of birding headaches. The day started off pretty well with a couple of nice Poms past the Bill. Ebird list HERE . However it...
02.05.2025
The day got off to a good start with a Great Egret on Ferry and within five minutes of arriving at the Bill three gorgeous Poms flew fairly ...
01.05.2025
The wind remained a light north-easterly but today it delivered the goods after the writing was on the wall yesterday evening when Andrew ha...
29.04.2025
Ian, Kojak and myself did a big day on the Peninsula today. Ebird list HERE . Kojak and I were late to start and by the time we met up with ...
28.04.2025
There was just the lightest north east breeze this morning at Selsey Bill which seems to have put the knackers on any visible passage HERE ....