Standing still is something that I do a lot of, particularly when out working undertaking bird surveys, especially if vantage point (VP) counts are involved. One of the things that I like about standing still for some time, is that the birds, and other…
Three a.m. and nature called. Later life has so many advantages but one or two drawbacks. With the alarm set for 0520 thoughts turned to the ringing session ahead and I knew that sleep would not return. At 0500 I switched the alarm off but took great …
OK, I’ve had enough of all this Covid malarkey, and whilst it’s best if we all continue to go along with the advice ‘Hands-Face-Space’….I’m off into Bowland again tomorrow.Meanwhile….Like this little bunch in my header, try as we may we’ll never ge…
A decent weather forecast for Thursday saw me take off to Heysham for some therapeutic escapism. I decided to look in on the promenade off Knowleys Road as the Brent Geese had been reported back there on 11 November, be nice to see them …
Like a lot of wintering bird surveys, where the land being surveyed is potentially functionally linked to a Special Protection Area (SPA), Vantage Point (VP) counts are required both over the high and low water periods for each month surveyed. One of m…
It’s raining – again. An hour of typing then I have to down tools. At 0930 the electricity will be switched off for fifty homes until 1430 for “essential maintenance”. Get accustomed to it folks. When Princess Nut Nuts gets her way with Boris wi…
Recently Knot have taken a lot of the birding attention with record numbers seen at Snettisham in October producing some spectacular videos and photos. Some of these went viral and even appeared on the BBC quiz of the week’s news. Over the current seri…
The date and record sits proudly up there at the top of the list of goodies found over the years, this one in the days when dinosaurs ruled the world….Well, let’s say just after!Saturday 19 November 1994.At 10.30am, I was at a location at H…
Still the weather stops me from birding so I’m hitting the memory trail from the warmer, drier days of Lanzarote and January 2015. Remember to click the pics for bigger and better views of Lanzarote, Canary Islands.We drove north and west heading for t…
Just recieved a report of a Golfinch from Aberdeenshire. This is our 10th recovery in Scotland of birds ringed in our area. Eight of these were ringed during winter at feeding stations and two during the spring passage. The latest was ringed in mid Dec…