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Non-Stop Birding
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...
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...