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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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Review – Storm Pegs by Jen Hadfield
A strand of this blog, among others including local birding and holiday write-ups, has been reviewing nature writing. This is a review of the latest book I’ve read on Shetland, also encompassing another book I read in the autumn covering similar ground. Storm Pegs is a reflection on the experiences of a woman who has…
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Tale Of The Unexpected
For my birthday Jane and I went to the art deco Midland Hotel in Morecambe. It’s a lovely venue and the rooms on the top floor have panoramic views of the Bay and balconies to drink them in from. We’ve been before for my birthday, we’ll probably go again. But when we rocked up on…
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Flying PIGs
The situation with Greylag Geese in northern Britain is complicated, and I’m probably a bit out of touch with recent changes as well. There used to be wild populations that visited in winter from Iceland, apparently to as far south as Morecambe Bay. With the feral / naturalised population it’s increasingly unclear whether they still…
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Review – The Search For India’s Rarest Birds
I’ve written on this blog about the current shortage of good quality writing about UK birding and birders. In recent years I’ve broadened my search to other countries, starting with ‘Big Year’ accounts from the USA. I had read ‘The Living Air’ about Indian birding by Aasheesh Pittie, and through following his Facebook updates saw…
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Out Skerries – Review Of The Birding Year
Wood Warbler, September 2024 by Dave Bywater Highlights I’ve done this for a few years now and normally it begins with a list of several species recorded on Skerries a handful of times over the years. Prepare to be rather underwhelmed by this year’s version, unless one of the island residents sends me a picture…
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Safari Birds
As a birder a short a one day safari, whilst a tremendous thrill, left a bit of a dilemma at where to look. I’m not sure how many bird species I missed as we hared past them, though I am fairly sure we saw several different Bee-eaters and could only put a name on one.…
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