Another year has passed and another Birdfair comes around – The 25th Rutland Birdfair was held this past weekend (16th – 18th August 2013) and every year seems to grow from strength to strength. This years fair seemed a bigger event than ever and was described as the "Birders Glastonbury" !! This year the Birdfair was supporting Birdlife International's "Flyways Programme", […]
For a young 15 year old lad, today a dream came true. As the saying goes – Every Cloud has a Silver Lining, especially over the Chilterns on Sunday 11th August 2013. Elliott (ELS) has been photographing butterflies since he was six years old and by the age of eleven, he had seen all the regular British
Topical Mega Bird News at the moment is the trapping on Fair Isle, Shetland in the early hours of this morning, Wednesday 7th August 2013, of a second Swinhoe's Petrel. The first for Fair Isle was heard only a week ago, calling overnight on 21st – 22nd July 2013 and then, remarkably, trapped on 27th July
A great place to visit during wader migration is RSPB Frampton Marsh in Lincolnshire. You will have gathered by now that I rather like this place. Never crowded and always a chance of finding your own birds. Todays menu was an adult Pectoral Sandpiper; 5 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Spotted Redshank and plenty of Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff,
My first trip to Norfolk for 2013! What, I hear you say – Yes, the first time I've made a visit to the North Norfolk coast this year, shame on me.. The end of July is a good time to see numbers of returning waders and at Titchwell to-day (Sunday 28th July) there were plenty to
A phone call this afternoon from my good friends Barrie, Anita & Elliott, was to tell me they were watching White-letter Hairstreak and literally only five minutes in the car from home. Needless to say I grabbed the cameras and made a dash for it, as the weather forecast for late afternoon was none to
A visit to Fermyn Woods in Northamptonshire is really a must during June – July. The reason, an encounter with his Imperial Majesty, the Purple Emperor butterfly. If one has never seen this butterfly before, then your first sighting is usually high up in the tree canopy, as they chase each other around the tops
A full summer plumaged Pacific Golden Plover was found at Rutland Water, Rutland, Leicestershire on Monday 15th July 2013. It promptly disappeared during the day, on Tuesday 16th but was relocated in the evening. The bird was still present on Wednesday 17th and so we raced off late afternoon to see it. What a stunning
