Sometimes when its quiet on the national birding front, it can be difficult to know what to do, if in doubt, fall back on some local birding. Thats exactly what I did on Sunday 14th August, spending a few hours during the morning at the Derbyshire Wildlife Reserve at Willington Gravel Pits. It’s usually difficult […]
In recent weeks the RSPB Reserve at Frampton Marsh in Lincolnshire has been a haven for waders, with several notable species being recorded. So we decide to head off there for the day on Saturday 6th August. It was a hot day and not altogether conducive for photography. Anyhow, there was a good selection of
On Sunday 31st July, news broke that a Purple Swamphen, better known as Purple Gallinule, had been discovered at RSPB Minsmere, Suffolk. Most of the previous occurrences of Swamphen’s in Britain, have been assigned to a subspecies other than the nominate race, as in the case of the Minsmere bird and these have all been
This morning at my local patch, Staunton Harold Reservoir, I eventually found several Common Sandpiper, they always move through in early August, a year tick. There were also 2 Little Egret; 1 adult Yellow Legged Gull in heavy wing moult and around 6 Common Tern. Also several vocal Green Woodpecker, Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler calling
A great weekend in Tywyn was had by all. Some “Mothyn”, “Walkyn”, “Lazyn” on the Beach “Sunyn” and “Eatyn” – Superb. Here’s the results. First the Moth Trap – Overnight on 30th July – Garden Trap using a 125watt Blended Bulb – 40 species – 70 moths – Highlights apart from photos below – Magpie Moth;
Sunday 24th July and I spent the day with my wife Helen, at the RSPB reserve of Bempton Cliffs, on the Yorkshire Coast near Bridlington. A great place for sea bird photography as the cliff faces are covered in Kittiwakes, Gannets and Auks during the breeding season. At this time of the year though, many of
More micros from several recent moth traps at Kings Newton – Moth heaven at the moment – Traps of 75-80 plus species on all nights this week so far, with numerous new micro moths being added. Photographing micros is not easy, first they are tiny, second difficult to get them to sit still, even then
A Sabine’s Gull was discovered at Carr Vale in Derbyshire early morning of the 13th July. It soon flew off with the local Black-headed Gulls and disappointingly, I assumed that was the end of that. Sabine’s Gull would be a new bird for my Derbyshire List. At 5pm Glyn called me to say that the
