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Non-Stop Birding
22.12.2024
Here's a photo summary of the second half of 2024 on this blog which documents day to day wildlife, nature and conservation news from our e...
21.12.2024
We've been slowly making our way through the landscape design works for the green space at home. Since we've moved in we've completed the ma...
17.12.2024
I did East side this morning from dawn to high tide (around mid-day). 75 species of over 8000 individuals in nearly four hours. Ebird list ...
15.12.2024
I joined the daily seawatch this morning. Ebird list HERE . Highlight was a Fulmar, a Peninsula tick for me and there was also a movement o...
14.12.2024
Here's a photo summary of the first half of 2024 which covers updates on our birding and nature projects at Little Oak Group and birdin...
10.12.2024
Kojak came over today for an attempt at a big day on the Selsey Peninsula. 82 species was a pretty poor result for a big day becuase we kept...
09.12.2024
I've had a bit of time recently to do some list updating mainly adding my lifers from Australia this year. My world bird list is now on 3339...
03.12.2024
As it's Monday, my only freeish day, I did a local birding session starting off at the Bill and then to Church Norton. It was pretty quiet ...
02.12.2024
There's been a stream of unseasonal warm air this weekend and over the last couple of days African migrant moths have been arriving mainly i...
01.12.2024
For a full update on what's happening at Beddington Farmlands see report by Dave Burton from Inside Croydon HERE . If you want the brief ve...
28.11.2024
In our drive to plant and own 3200 trees (800 tonnes of carbon per family member to offset a lifetime's carbon footprint) we planted a hedge...
26.11.2024
The wind eased off a bit today and by mid-morning the sun was out and Bert was fading away. Not a bad morning seawatch with highlights inclu...
25.11.2024
Quite dissappointing today. Despite there being Cory's Shearwater and Leach's reported in the Solent and multiple Sabine's Gull in East Suss...
24.11.2024
The weather has been wild today as Storm Bert has been battering the UK. I was on dad duty this morning so missed the daily Selsey Seawatch ...
23.11.2024
After a week of cold easterlies, frosts and snow, today was brighter but still with a cold northwesterly. The highlight of a couple of hours...
19.11.2024
The weather is deteriotating from tomorrow so I thought I'd make the most of the calm weather and did a good seven hours in the field today....
18.11.2024
As usual it's been a weekend of family trips (Reindeers and Pet Shops this time) and hanging around the house and the garden. The garden vis...
16.11.2024
As we head into the second half of November and the wintering birds are piling in locally it seems to make sense to continue the switch from...
12.11.2024
After yesterday's family walk I decided to go back to East Head today to have a proper look round. 59 species of about 3500 individuals in 3...
11.11.2024
Regionally there are still a few scarce migrants turning up on the bird and moth front but round here this weekend it has very much felt lik...
08.11.2024
The back drop to this week has been Trump elected in the US and the sinking in of a new Labour administration in the UK too, both developmen...
05.11.2024
It certainly felt wintery today. I did Church Norton to the first Several and then the Spit in what was quite a chilly east wind. 69 species...
03.11.2024
Didn't get many chances this week to do much birding as it was half term. On Monday and Tuesday we took the boys to visit Aunties and Uncles...
28.10.2024
Weekends are family time so I'm restricted to vis-mig in the morning before the kids get up and popping out during screen time. However it's...
26.10.2024
The plan worked this morning, I put the sound recorder on at dawn and within a few minutes a Hawfinch was flying around calling. Presumably ...
25.10.2024
There's been some interesting visible migration over the garden during the last two mornings. Ebird lists from yesterday HERE and today H...
24.10.2024
I got confirmation yesterday that I correctly identified Dialectica scalariella from earlier on in the week. Colin Pratt, confirmed the...
22.10.2024
Storm Ashley came through yesterday and seemed to have shaken things up a little bit round here with an increase in moth migrants and a few ...
20.10.2024
Seemingly I didn't pay my electricity bill so we didn't have a connection on the site so sadly we couldn't get the moth trap on as usual. Ho...
19.10.2024
We started the day off at Cape Kaliakra. There had been a sudden change in the weather with a moderate north wind blowing and temperatures p...
Unfortunately today was our last day here. A last minute short trip dictated by finally being able to get a water connection and the pond li...
17.10.2024
Today was mainly a work day getting the wildlife pond at the plot progressed further. The four boys were down for a couple of days so we con...
As usual we started the day at Cape Kaliakra at dawn. It was a lot slower today in a southerly warm wind. Seems like the northwesterly of th...
14.10.2024
Kojak and I started the day off at Cape Kaliakra before heading over to the project plot at Kamen Bryag to meet Dylan, Anton, Stoyan and Dob...
12.10.2024
I'm off to Bulgaria tomorrow for a week on the project there, mainly to complete the wildlife pond but also to do a bit of autumn birding to...
05.10.2024
I only had the morning today before the plane arrived for the 1pm flight back to Sao Miguel so I concentrated on the coast and got some good...
04.10.2024
Presuming the plane comes tomorrow (it's been cancelled today due the weather) today was my last day on here for this year so I made the mos...
03.10.2024
The storm driven birds continue to arrive on the island and there was quite an arrival today of 2 Bay-breasted Warblers, 2 Baltimore Orioles...
02.10.2024
Hurricane Isaac has now moved north of us and we are now caught up in a complex of North Atlantic low and high pressure 'eddies' but there ...
01.10.2024
We have been waiting patiently (or not) for Hurricane Isaac to pull in some mega yanks and we are still waiting. There have been a few 'si...