Tag: nature
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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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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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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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Book Review – Human, Nature
When I put this book on my nature writing ‘to read’ list I hadn’t realised I had seen versions of some of the content before. The essays in Human, Nature have appeared in British Birds and other publications, or earlier incarnations of the arguments in them have. There are four sections to the book. ‘Close…
Natural Selection 