Having missed a couple of Great Knot in Alaska by a few days, it was a little disconcerting when I heard of one turning up at Titchwell in North Norfolk. Little did I know at the time that it would stick around, giving me a chance of seeing it on my arrival back in UK. […]
DENALI NATIONAL PARK – Our journey to the park was along the 135 mile dirt track road called the Denali Highway. The road passed through vast wilderness of tundra and willow scrub, Black Spruce Woods, Alpine Lakes and river valleys, which held many singing Arctic Warbler and Wilson’s Warbler. We had views of a superb
SEWARD – Is a small city located on the south coast of Alaska, on the Kenai Peninsula. It is the ninth most lucrative fisheries port in the United States, the main industry, followed by tourism. Seward is unusual among most Alaskan communities in that it has road access in the Seward Highway from Seward to
BARROW – (pronounced Baerou) – June 15th – June 18th – Barrow is located above the Arctic Circle, in the North Slope Borough of Alaska. The land of the Polar Bear, with a population of around 4,300. The town is home to the Inupiat Eskimo, an indigenous Inuit ethnic group, for over 1500 years. Barrow
NOME – (pronounced Noum) – June 9th – 12th 2016 – Well there’s no place like Nome, as the saying goes! Located on the edge of the Bering Sea, on the South West side of the Seward Peninsula, the only way to enter is by air or sea. With a population of around 3,500, Nome
Date: 8th June – 23rd June arriving back in UK on 24th June 2016 – When Glyn & Richard spoke to me about the possibilities of visiting Alaska back in October 2015, the plan soon became a reality. I must admit I never expected that I would visit, what is commonly known as, “The Land
This morning (5th June2016) a belated trip up into the Peak District in the hope of one or two speciality woodland summer visitors. I had left it very late this year for Pied Flycatcher, Wood Warbler, Tree Pipit and Redstart. Usually the best time is in early May, just after the birds have arrived back
Over the past few days (end of May into early June 2016), 100’s of thousands, possibly millions, of the tiny moth, Plutella xylostella, have arrived in Britain. They have been trapped and observed in unprecedented numbers, right across the country and it must be one of the biggest influxes ever. The Diamond-back Moth, to give
