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Guess Who’s Back…
Last night I had an hour to do some birding. I was aware that there had been a Fylde Bird Club meeting there on Tuesday which hadn’t seen much, but it’s the best site close to home. It was pleasant enough with a couple of Greenshanks and a flock of around 70 Black-tailed Godwits over…
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Ultimate Urban Birding
Jane wanted some air and a walk this evening so we decided to go to Stanley Park, which are very fortunate to live quite close to given it’s a majestic open space. When we arrived I went to get my binoculars from the car, they were still in the house. I thought my plans to…
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Late Spring Enigmas
If I’ve dropped Jane at the college and I’m heading to my office in town there are a few options for a stop for potential spring migrants en route. Over the years my standout favourite has become Gynn Gardens just off the Promenade by the famous Airfix roundabout. It probably isn’t the most popular with…
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We Go Again
Last week I did my first visit of 2025 to easily my longest standing survey commitment, the Breeding Bird Survey of Blackpool tetrad SD3033. I’ve written about this before, including a couple of years ago as linked below. https://naturalselectiondotuk.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1067&action=edit The previous article mentions that 51 species had been seen on my surveys to 2022, and…
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Djerba Wrap Up
I meant to blog every day, but being holiday I didn’t hold myself to things like that. So here is a summary for anyone interested. I continued to spend a bit of time birding in the area round the hotel. In this regard it was lovely to be reacquainted with Marsh Sandpipers, as I’ve not…
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Djerbahood – Bird Street Art
Today I was on a tour of the island. This included a visit to “Djerbahood’. a street art project that began a decade ago in the village of Erriadh. I guess many people reading this will be Blackpool based, and familiar with Sand, Sea and Spray which did similar work on buildings in the town.…
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Djerba Part 2
I said I would write about the holiday ‘local patch’ today. So where is that? Well in the map below my hotel is above where it says ‘crocodile farm’ (of which more later in the week), and the patch is the tidal lagoon to the south. Yesterday there were a couple of flamingos lounging about.…
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Djerba Part One
If you didn’t know I am currently on an island off southern Tunisia. It’s an island with an airport, and there’s a causeway with a road on it to the mainland. But even so the lure of a cheap getaway to a genuine Mediterranean island was too good to resist. I’ve booked on a couple…
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American Beauty*
American Wigeon by Laura Wolf, used with acknowledgement under Creative Commons Licence Yesterday I had a pleasant morning taking part in the Lancaster district winter bird survey. In my assigned square I saw over 300 Whooper Swans, a couple of thousand Pink-footed Geese and more besides. I was supposed to be at the Blackpool game…
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