Natural Selection

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…

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.…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

I went to the Wainwright Awards for Nature Writing last year where this book was shortlisted, and Fiona and Tim talked about the reasons for writing it. I haven’t read as much about Britain’s mammals as I should have and made a note to read it at some point. At the outset I would stress…