Attenborough Nature Reserve lies in the Trent Valley just over the Derbyshire border in Nottinghamshire. It is an excellent reserve and often picks up some good rarities during the year. I remember the 12th December 2004, when along with three of my birding pals, we identified Nottinghamshires first SORA RAIL (see also BLOG Categories – Year […]
My wife and I have been visiting the English County of Dorset for the past five years for our annual late August holiday. We base ourselves in and around the Swanage area, this year choosing to stay at the little village of Worth Matravers. A fantastic location and a great area for bird migration. I remember well,
Since my last update in June, here we are at the end of the summer. During July & August I managed a few new birds for the year, helping to move my Staunton Harold Year List on to 118 by the end of August. Common Tern increased to a maximum of 10 adults on the 13th July.
Spurn Point lies on the English Coast of East Yorkshire, on the northern side of the humber estuary. It is renowned to be one of, if not the best, UK mainland Bird Observatory and migration watch point. Spurn has a great history of recording rare birds and insects and when migration is in full swing, many
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,
