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Zanzibar – Day 1
Striped Kingfisher We flew from Gatwick mid afternoon and changed in Dubai at 2.30 local time. Not knowing what to expect we were surprised to end up on a train / tram in the airport. Even when we got to the right place the bus transfer was fairly epic in very humid conditions. When we…
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Holiday Streaking
adult Egyptian Goose I’m not sure whether I’ve mentioned eBird streaks in a blog before. Basically it’s doing some birding every day and putting some records on the eBird platform. I’ve kept a streak going for 700 days, just because I think birding every day is good for my wellbeing. But sometimes it’s a challenge…
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From The Archives
Olive-backed Pipit by Len Worthington, used under Wikipedia Creative Commons Licence A proper birding post on Natural Selection for a change, regarding an Olive-backed Pipit I found on Out Skerries in October 2022. So why am I going back to this now you may ask. The answer is an article in this month’s Birdwatch magazine.…
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Greenodd Gulls
Regular readers will know I like to check the gulls on the Leven Estuary at Greenodd for ringed gulls when passing on the A590. I was in South Cumbria yesterday taking a family member to a medical appointment and stopped on the way. I quickly picked up an adult Lesser Black-backed Gull – green N:76B.…
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Putting The ‘D’ In National Whale & Dolphin Week
Over the years I’ve tried to participate in Sea Watch Foundation’s annual National Whale & Dolphin Watch as often as possible. Some years this has involved attending the ones arranged by Dave McGrath, some years I’ve arranged my own or done something impromptu. One of the issues with the dates being set in advance is…
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Nobody Expects The Spanish Indecision
I spend rather too much time scanning through gulls flocks at Skippool for ringed birds these days. It has had its moments though, incIuding three Norwegian Common Gulls earlier in the spring which were the first I’d ever managed to read anywhere. A couple of weeks back I was surprised that literally the first Lesser…
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Conference Birding
James (centre), myself and other participants in the morning bird walk I have a number of blogposts I’d like to write that I haven’t got round too. We’ll see if I get round to them. This week I was at a work conference at the Cotswold Water Park. Clearly I’d worked out that even in…
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Night Manoeuvres
The CLdN Performance leaving Heysham as we returned in the evening I was on the Marinelife Heysham-Dublin survey again this month. It was a very long day, but so very worth it. Late Monday night I drove up from Blackpool, met my surveying colleague Jon and we were swiftly escorted onto the CLdN Pace. The…
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Cyprus
Crested Lark, Paphos headland Last month Jane and I went to Paphos, Cyprus for a week. We were supposed to be going to Porto Santo again, but the flights got changed several times and in the end it wasn’t practical to go. We settled on Cyprus as it’s currently very reasonably priced and it’s good…
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Welsh Wanderer
I’ve finally got enough time to do some blogging. I have a few things from during the radio silence I will cover in the next week or so. But I’m starting today on the familiar ground of ringing recoveries and feral geese. Viewing the River Wyre at Little Singleton this afternoon there was very little…
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