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Wednesday, 6 July 2022

Snetti's warbler

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warm..... warmer.... blazing hot.... The Great Reed warbler. Big flopping hulk of a thing. My first attempt to see it had failed. It was my ...
Monday, 27 June 2022

Chippers

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Ringing at Chippenham Fen is a different prospect. Stuff not found in the usual places is pretty common here. The Sedge Warblers have just f...
Tuesday, 24 May 2022

Everything Flows

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I don't always use the fortnight of the school Easter holiday fully, in a birding sense, unless I've headed ...
Saturday, 21 May 2022

wobbler

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The chunterers and Jazz freakists usually hunker down in the reeds, never to be seen as they rattle off their noise. Sometimes you'll se...
Monday, 18 April 2022

Northlands

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The northlands beckoned and I have just returned from a much needed break in the Cairngorms.  More of that to follow but before I left I fin...
Saturday, 16 April 2022

keep on Rookerin the free world.

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 For years, the copse next door has hosted a winter roost of Rooks and Jackdaws. The Jackdaws spend the summer on the rooftops. Two pairs re...
Saturday, 9 April 2022

activity time.

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The nestbox Stu helped me install is definitely being used this year. I set the camera up and left it recording for ten minutes, and capture...
Monday, 4 April 2022

what a coot.

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There is no more evil force than the empty soul of the Coot. What a complete bastard.  

return of the project.

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Just before the winter returned with cold  iced mornings and grey winds, the first Project Godwit returned to the Washes. It was lounging on...
Sunday, 27 March 2022

feeling breckish.

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A continental morning, pine fresh plantation, looking out across a hazy heath with Larks already melting into the shimmer. A day in the Brec...
Friday, 25 March 2022

More sparrow

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Tuesday, 22 March 2022

return of the passer.

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For years the House Sparrow has been an uncommon visitor in the garden. Their old barn was renovated nearly two decades ago, and the upshot ...
Tuesday, 15 February 2022

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Late winter among the Teal. While the weather hasn't been extreme, temperatures dropped during January, culminating in a day of ice at h...
Tuesday, 25 January 2022

Winterlong

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6A8H8C7S90 The art of wintering has been on my mind, having read a thoughtful book of the sam...
Wednesday, 19 January 2022

In the reeds.

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As the Teal chirp and gather at the reed edge, other birds appear in the periphery. The frost melts on the reed heads and for the first time...