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11.03.2025
Finally got a proper summer migrant today, the first Northern Wheatear found by the Vicar this morning at the Windmill Beach. I spent most o...
10.03.2025
It was a family day today so we went to Arundel wetland centre where I was hoping for an early Sand Martin amongst the pond dipping and boat...
09.03.2025
Roger Browne visited today, so we met up at the Selsey Seawatch with the usual gang. The movement from yesterday continued but to a somewhat...
08.03.2025
Today was my personal first day of Spring migration locally (I missed the first pulse when in Iceland) with a good passage of wildfowl going...
06.03.2025
Check out this month's issue of Birdwatch magazine to read our article on 20 years of Corvo birding HERE CORVO BIRDERS FACEBOOK AZORES ...
05.03.2025
Early on in the year I normally do a quick update on our journey into natural capital investment which started about five years ago. Backgro...
04.03.2025
The high pressure conditions with clear blue skies continues so I spent today trying to catch up with a few local ticks. I started off joini...
01.03.2025
It was a busy week with work catching up after last week away. I managed to get out in the field today for a few hours and checked out East ...
25.02.2025
Unfortunately we had an early flight back to London but I was keeping an eye out for a Gyr until the last minute. Gyr is getting harder on I...
It was the Portuguese Rarities Committee AGM this weekend in Lisbon. I haven't attended in person for a few years so I thought it would be a...
20.02.2025
Sadly our last full day in Iceland today and it was back to Akuryeri for a visit to the famous bakery, a whale watching session and then a v...
19.02.2025
We started the day off at the Akureyri Botanical Gardens for a morning walk. Good numbers of Common Redpolls in the area, a few Blackbirds. ...
Monday is my main birding day so I targeted some more local patch year ticks today. I started off at the Bill (with Andrew, Ian ,Sarah and C...
I continued with my orientation exploring today. I started off checking out 'The Breach' at Medmerry and then walked up to the Medmerry Trai...
As I only did half a day on Monday, I bunked off work this morning and in very cold conditions (a large anticyclone is centred over Europe b...
Arrived in Akureyri, Northern Iceland today for a short family break over the school half term. Will mainly be a family tourist trip but als...
Today we spent the day at Husavik, the coastal town where the film Eurovision, the Story of Fire Saga was set. It was a family day so I had ...
Looking forward to early Spring when we can carry on planting up the garden beds with herbaceous plants, sow the meadows and plant up the ra...
Vincent and I have got a short paper in Dutch Birding this month entitled 'Identification of Monteiro's Storm Petrel'. It's the first in a t...
We started the day exploring the east side of Lake Myvatn, mainly from the car as it was minus seven degrees. We managed to find one of the ...
03.02.2025
Been pretty busy this week with work (including a big quote for the London Wildlife Trust at Hutchinson's Bank and Matt came over on Wednes...
28.01.2025
A wild and stormy day, with a force 8 southwesterly wind. I started the day at the Bill where it was difficult to view with a high tide and ...
23.01.2025
Here's a few notes on some of the Shrike identification challenges we had in Kuwait recently. Thanks to Pierre-Andre Crochet for discussion...
21.01.2025
We spent our last day on this short trip dipping the Thick-billed Warbler again. We've spent half our time dipping that bird which has meant...
19.01.2025
Another day of chasing targets. We drove south this morning to look for Purple Sunbird and after failing at a couple of sites we finally con...
18.01.2025
We started the day at Al-Shaheed Park in Kuwait City where we dipped Purple Sunbird but found a Brown Shrike and a Hume's Warbler in the flo...
17.01.2025
Thought I would break up the winter a bit so popped off to Kuwait for a few days with Vincent. I need a few WP ticks out here and Vincent wa...
14.01.2025
I did a six hour session this morning, first at the Bill HERE and then Halsey's Farm and North Wall HERE . 2 Slavonian Grebe, 7 Velvet Sco...
12.01.2025
A bright, sunny and fresh winter's day so we did a family walk at West Wittering/East Head. There were a few thousand Brent Geese out on the...
11.01.2025
I spent the afternoon exploring another part of the Selsey Peninsula, this time Chichester Harbour between Itchenor and Snowshill Creek. 56 ...
10.01.2025
The weather has improved a bit recently so I thought I'd grab the opportunity to do a bit more local year listing and exploring. Yesterday ...
07.01.2025
There was an inset day today so the kids still haven't gone back to school so it was another day of playing chess, eating out and fun and ga...
05.01.2025
The kids are still on holiday so birding opportunities have been limited. However I managed to get the year list off to a start and did a se...
02.01.2025
Another year and another miracle that nature hasn't wiped humanity out yet. The race to the bottom gets more and more feverish every year. ...
31.12.2024
Not many chances to get into the field over the xmas holiday but picked up a few bits while out and about including a Barn Owl hunting near ...
28.12.2024
Here's a few metrics for 2024 that we use to measure our productivity at LITTLE OAK GROUP using a simple triple bottom line framework of E...
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...