Well well. Here we are on March 21st. The Spring Equinox. Hasn’t the year flown by? It seems like only the other day that we had snow and ice, and now the days are longer, the trees are in bud and the Blackthorn is in flower. It seems that spring has well and truly arrived. [...]
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News Round Up
Posted in Background, Birds, Road Casualties, tagged badger, Parakeet, Road Casualty on March 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Birdwatching Update
Posted in Birds on March 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Hi E J – that’s an impressive list you have now. Good work! By way of response, here’s my own efforts, which consist mostly of feeding the ducks at Woburn Deer Park. The Canada Geese are acting strangely, honking and hissing at each other. I think it must be something to do with mating season. [...]
I’ll bet Sir Peter Scott never had this trouble…
Posted in Birds, tagged Feeding Ducks, Mallard, Tufted Duck, Woburn on January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I went out with Scarlett to the lakes at Woburn Deer Park on Sunday to look for ducks. She insisted that we bring bread to feed them. There weren’t many birds – a couple of pairs of Tufted Ducks and Coots. Tufties used to be a real scourge when I was fishing a lake in [...]
The Big Garden Birdwatch – My Results
Posted in Birds, tagged Birding, Birds, The Big Garden Birdwatch on January 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
OK – Scarlett and I did the hour-long birdwatch while enjoying a late breakfast. The idea is record the maximum number of each species seen (to avoid counting the same bird twice). I’ve submitted the results to the RSPB website. The final score was: Goldfinch 4 Blue Tit 5 Collared Dove 2 Blackbird 4 Sparrow [...]
The Big Garden Birdwatch
Posted in Birds, tagged The Big Garden Birdwatch on January 28, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Just a quick note to remind you about the Big Garden Birdwatch. If you haven’t done it today, there is still time tomorrow. Scarlett and I will be doing it tomorrow morning. It only takes an hour, it gets you closer to your local wildlife and you’ll be helping to monitor bird numbers across the [...]
Birds of Bedfordshire: No. 54 – The Goosander
Posted in Birds, tagged Birding, Birds, birdwatching, British Bird List, Goosander on January 8, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I’m afraid I’m not a very good birder. I started keeping my list of Bedfordshire birds about two and a half years ago (see Birds of Bedfordshire: No.45 – The Dunnock). At that time the list stood at 45 species positively identified. I totted up the list again today, and in the intervening time it has only [...]
At last – Bedfordshire Red Kites
Posted in Birds, tagged Bedfordshire, birdwatching, red kite, red sky in the morning on January 4, 2012 | 8 Comments »
‘Nature is lavish with her riches for those who have eyes to see’ Charles Tunnicliffe . It was as if Bedfordshire was fighting back, making a point about my birdwatching trips to other parts of the country. It was saying ‘look – we have birds here too!’ I’ve had a thing about Red Kites for [...]
Happy New Year – Red Squirrels and a Birdwatching Pilgrimage
Posted in Birds, Fieldnotes, tagged Anglesey, birdwatching, Lapwings, Malltraeth, Newborough Forest, red squirrel, Tunnicliffe on January 3, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Happy New Year! It’s been a hectic Christmas, but I saw in the New Year in my own style. While the rest of the world was sleeping off the excesses of the night before, I was up before dawn on January 1st, sitting in a forest waiting for Red Squirrels. I was back in Anglesey [...]
Brief Encounters
Posted in Birds, Tracking, tagged mouse, Sparrowhawk, tracks, woodpecker on July 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m on parenting duty again this weekend, so no badger watching. But there’s always something wildlifey to be seen out there. Take these tracks for instance. They appeared overnight in Scarlett’s sandpit (yes, I really have used my daughter’s plaything as an impromptu tracking box. The scale is in centimetres, so the tracks are small. [...]
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