Natural Selection

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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.…

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…