Natural Selection

As I meander between classic bird blog territory and other stuff today it’s back to the former. It was a memorable year for me and I’m certainly not complaining. Here’s my top ten chronologically: February half-term With lockdowns and work there wasn’t much chance to get out in earnest before this. Some nice birding Over…

I am away for my birthday so I’ve scheduled this, which means it probably won’t work but we’ll see. In terms of birding on my birthday the only thing I can ever remember finding was a Snow Bunting on the shore at Askam-in-Furness when I was a teenager. I didn’t even have my binoculars with…

Yesterday I promised to share some creative writing based on another morning Jane and I spent at Rossall Beach in the spring. You can see it here: https://www.blackpoolsocial.club/32412-coast-bird-migration/ In case that doesn’t work for anyone the text is reproduced below.

Between junior parkrun and my parents coming round I only had an hour or so for birding today. I decided to look for Pinkfeet in the Singleton / Windy Harbour area, where I had seen some in passing yesterday. There were perhaps 1500 or so in a field so I parked carefully off road and…

Here is what I’ve received for Christmas from family nature writing wise. I’m putting it on here to make sure that I read them all and do some kind of review in due course. If you’ve been checking in regularly you will know that I received Vagrancy In Birds early, and you can see a…

I was dropping Jane off in North Shore at lunchtime so stopped at the go-kart track to try and get pictures of the two Purple Sandpipers that roost here with Turnstones. The waders were not playing ball, hanging out on the inaccessible track wall nearest the sea. I thought I could see one ‘Purp’ but…