I offer no apologies for the photographs in this post. They should be shared far and wide, mostly to our representatives in the EU and the UK. The slaughter of birds for amusement continues apace in many countries in Europe. It is commonplace in S…
Down Memory Lane
Surfing as one might on a rather dull morning and on the website of Fylde Bird Club, Lancashire, I stumbled across a page full of their old Newsletters. The newsletters, now in PDF form and dated from 1983 to 2017 provide a source of historic local in…
Testing Times
Andy and I arranged to meet up at Gulf Lane this morning to test our latest theory about Linnets – we catch better on frosty mornings? There was a ground frost and a temperature of -1° at 0800. We had been here on Saturday 4th January and despite …
Testing Times
Andy and I arranged to meet up at Gulf Lane this morning to test our latest theory about Linnets – we catch better on frosty mornings? There was a ground frost and a temperature of -1° at 0800. We had been here on Saturday 4th January and despite …
Wanderers From The North
You may remember me telling you about Gail hurting her hand whilst we were out birding on Christmas Eve, well she has actually broken it! When she went back to work after New Year her colleagues persuaded her to get it checked out, and an X-ray later i…
A Birding Glossary
Here I am on a miserable Sunday afternoon, mizzly, dank and grey with nothing on the telly, just the usual BBC propaganda, Sly News or tired old films. I got to thinking about the birding terminology, names and acronyms used in the world of birds …
End of Year Summary
With almost all the data in for the year we have ringed 10750 new birds, although with retraps and sightings we have details of almost 14000 captures.Top of the pile as usual is Blue Tit with 2263 followed by Goldfinch at 1059 and Pied Flyc…
Casper the friendly ghost
Couldn’t resist a go at the gulls at Redgate Recycling Centre following recent photo’s coming from there. What a great site! 2cy Caspian, 2cy Iceland and plenty of argentatus Herrings in the mix including one bird with very reduced black in the wingtip. The Iceland gives ridiculous views and doesn’t spook when it is sat on its […]
All Fired Up…….
…… and somewhere to go. After the news on New Year’s Eve that Linnet AYD5167 had been ringed on North Ronaldsay Orkney it didn’t need much persuasion to get out ringing again. Even better, the forecast promised near zero wind and a bright morning th…
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
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