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Non-Stop Birding
03.05.2024
Red-fronted Siren No time to blog unfortunately out here but here's the live Ebird trip report and will update blog when back home on the...
27.04.2024
It is a dangerous thing when a connection to nature is broken. Without a garden or a decent local patch and a long slow uninspiring Spring o...
19.04.2024
Nice to see our short note in Dutch Birding this month about the Steppe Gull flock we discovered in Azerbaijan last year; the first fully do...
16.04.2024
A break in the wet and windy conditions resulted in a flurry of migrant birds along Cuttlebrook and a few more moths in the light trap. Ebi...
14.04.2024
Just back from a cracking few days in Devon visiting Jaffa and one of Jacob's friends. We stayed in a really cool log cabin at Clifford Park...
10.04.2024
Had a good moth night over the weekend at the rental with 21 species (the best night of the year). Highlight was a Northern Drab- a moth lif...
04.04.2024
The flood waters are high again on the Cuttlebrook corridor and a couple of sessions there over the last week with Jacob have been very quie...
02.04.2024
As I have neither a decent garden or a decent local patch at the moment (our move date is set for late May) I've resorted to living in the p...
30.03.2024
Around this time last year I bought the Canon R7 and finally this week I managed to let go of the money to complete the combo with the RF ...
29.03.2024
Here's a few sounds from Estonia using my recently purchased Zoom H5. More sounds on the trip report HERE . The first time I've encountered...
27.03.2024
Spent the last couple of days exploring the forests, bogs and coastal marshes around Parnu. Highlights have included Great, Lesser and Middl...
26.03.2024
Spent the last couple of days on Saaremaa island exploring the icy Baltic bays, harbours and coastline. The highlight of the trip were the f...
23.03.2024
As we can't do a Bulgaria spring trip this year I thought I'd take the opportunity to visit another area of the Western Palearctic so after ...
We started the day off at 5 am and did a pre-dawn night drive along some local forest tracks. The highlight was a glimpse of a Eurasian Lynx...
20.03.2024
The floods are receding again at Lower Cuttlebrook which has created some good habitat for Egrets with 15 Little Egrets and 2 Great Egrets ...
19.03.2024
I put out the new MOL lure yesterday in the warm afternoon conditions and within a few minutes got the target species this time of year, Ear...
18.03.2024
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16.03.2024
We are having a bit of trouble at the moment with the main Beddington Farmlands website so need a landing page for all the recent Beddington...
15.03.2024
It's hard not to get a bit excited about spring migration even if it is just the slow start at the moment. I did a couple of hours at Otmoo...
Did a few hours at Beddington yesterday after work, 50 species was not a bad haul in a couple of hours, Checklist HERE Highlight was a firs...
13.03.2024
Tree Sparrow. The last remaining stronghold of this species was at Beddington Farmlands. Due to delays in habitat restoration they are now e...
12.03.2024
The work continues on working out the gaps in my world list to plan next trips. I've come to the conclusion that I'm just going to have to u...
In between the virtual birding of re-living past glorious trips I have been getting on with the daily slog too. I had a good session at Lowe...
08.03.2024
There's been quite a few developments on the projects and trips planning recently: 1) We have exchanged on the Pagham harbour/Selsey Propert...
Been an interesting development on the identify of a well known pair of falcons in Azerbaijan. We saw these birds in 2022, original post HE...
05.03.2024
Shoebill I'm still going at this, (cleaning up my archives and world list). Latest progress has been going through photos from Uganda and up...
04.03.2024
Part 2 of a retrospective Kenya photo dump post. Mammals. Trip Report HERE All photos digiscoped. Lion Cheetah African Elephant (above an...
03.03.2024
Still going through old photos and updating my world list. Found a load of other photos that are too good to be hiding on my hard drive so h...
29.02.2024
The Thame flooded again while we were in Madeira and the water levels are just going down now. The flood plain is alive with birds. Over the...
27.02.2024
I've been sorting out my World List and trip photos on my hard drive recently and been going through photos from a trip to India in 2007, be...
25.02.2024
It was about a year ago that the IOC split Chaffinch into five different species with the announcement by Birdguides HERE and the underlyi...
24.02.2024
A couple of facebook albums from our recent trip- plants and holiday snaps
22.02.2024
A few sound recordings from Madeira including Trocaz Pigeon singing which seems to be a rare recording. Best to use head phones as pretty qu...
21.02.2024
I put the LED travel moth trap out in the Calhau Grande garden every night while in Madeira and had a few moths but only two or three specie...
20.02.2024
Jacob was still recovering from his sickness on Saturday so while Holly played nurse again I took the opportunity to try and get some photos...
17.02.2024
Yesterday we explored the central part of the island and had lunch at Santana and I also had a couple of opportunities to check out the gard...
15.02.2024
A hectic couple of days mainly doing family stuff but also been sneaking in a bit of birding and mothing. Yesterday we did the Aquarium at P...
13.02.2024
Our first day on family holiday on Madeira mainly involved us getting settled in our cottage for the week. We arrived late last night so ove...
11.02.2024
The garden moth list is now up to 15 with a few expected new for years. Still no Acleris here. I used to get winter Acleris moths quite reg...
05.02.2024
Another quiet winter week but surprisingly quite busy at work so I spent most of the week unfortunately working for the man. However this w...