{"id":6194,"date":"2013-08-20T19:01:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T19:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=6194"},"modified":"2024-08-07T16:25:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:25:53","slug":"rutland-birdfair-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/rutland-birdfair-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"RUTLAND BIRDFAIR 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAnother year has passed and another Birdfair comes around <\/span><\/strong>– 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", raising funds to support conservation efforts to protect breeding birds of the North American prairies and grasslands.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe usual format of hundreds of stands covering the whole spectrum of the Birding & Birdwatching Industry – Holidays; Optics; Camera Gear; Conservation; Bird Food; Bird Art; Bird Ringing with BTO; Books and Information Services. Numerous talks and lectures were held in the Events Marquee during the four days, speakers included Simon King; Dr Rob Lambert; Nick Baker and Martin Garner from Birding Frontiers to name a few. Many projects for the younger budding birders and wildlife enthusiasts to get involved with, including Pond Dipping and Insect Sweeping in nearby fields. Great stuff for the youngsters.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tA great day out and a chance to meet up with birders from all areas of the country, some of whom I only see at the Birdfair!! Also great to see many birding friends running successful businesses. One such company is Birdtour Asia<\/em> <\/span><\/strong>run by two young Derbyshire Birders (www.birdtourasia.com<\/a>) offering organised and tailor made birding tours throughout the region. Many chances and opportunities to see some stunning Asian birds.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of the highlights of the day was a heart stopping moment as the MEGA Alert went off on everyones PAGERS – A Red-billed Tropic Bird<\/span> had flown past Pendeen in Cornwall during an early morning seawatch !!!!!!!!!!\n<\/p>\n

\n\tA few photos follow from our trip on Sunday 18th August 2013.<\/strong><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe main entrance to the site<\/strong> – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tPart of the large Marquee area<\/strong> – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tEarly Sunday morning before the crowds arrived<\/strong> – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Events Marquee<\/strong> – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tExhibitor List for Marquee 2 <\/strong>– Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe stand of Birdtour Asia<\/strong> – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tJuvenile Sedge Warbler<\/strong> – BTO Ringing Session – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tTree Creeper<\/strong> – BTO Ringing Session – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tButterfly Conservation Stand <\/strong>– Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tPoplar Hawkmoth Caterpillar<\/strong> – Butterfly Conservation Stand – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tAbove two images – The stunning Privet Hawkmoth Caterpillar – Butterfly Conservation Stand<\/strong> – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tEast Midlands Butterfly Conservation Stand<\/strong> – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe British Dragonfly Society Stand <\/strong>– Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tOne of the many Wildlife Tour Companies offering a vast range of mouthwatering holidays<\/strong> – I travelled to India with Naturetrek – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe British Bulgarian Society Stand<\/strong> – Offering a variety of Butterfly Holidays in Bulgaria – I travelled with friends last year with this operator to the Rhodope Mountains and we are travelling with the company again next year to the Rila Mountains – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tOne of the many Bird Art stands<\/strong> – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tA busy day in one of the Marquees<\/strong> – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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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", […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,18,529,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-203","category-birds","category-birdsof2013","category-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}