Wednesday, 27 January 2010

Latest Bardsey Island Bird Report just published

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BARDSEY BIRD AND FIELD OBSERVATORY REPORT 2008 Number 52 The latest Bardsey Island bird report for 2008 is a sumptuous affair and like those...

FERA's ongoing determination to eradicate the RUDDY DUCK

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I have been informed today that WWT field scouts have located 632 surviving Ruddy Ducks in Britain and it is FERA's intention to try and...
Tuesday, 26 January 2010

The THAYERS GULL in County Galway

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Latitude 53.569676 (north), Longitude -10.028372 (west)Irish Grid Reference L 656 596 Directions from Clifden town. Take the N59 north to to...
Sunday, 24 January 2010

The variability of NORTH AMERICAN HERRING GULLS

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Last week a friend lent me her new Canon digital SLR with a moderately long lens (250mm). It was my first chance to photograph birds by oth...

Star on a TV show

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After the demise of the Middlesex Asiatic Brown Shrike, the Whitby BLACK-THROATED THRUSH has been by far the most exciting rarity in Britai...
Friday, 22 January 2010

Apparent THAYER'S GULL in County Galway !

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This second-calendar gull of presumably Nearctic origin has all the characteristics of a dark male Thayer's Gull. However, the overall d...
Thursday, 21 January 2010

Mid-week Review

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Recent days have seen some interesting wild geese relocating, many from the close continent, including a flock of 7 TUNDRA BEAN GEESE in Oxf...
Tuesday, 19 January 2010

And now a COMMON WHITETHROAT makes it 245

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On Sunday 17 January, a COMMON WHITETHROAT was trapped and ringed in Kingsteignton in South Devon - a particularly odd occurrence and consi...

.......And yet another SLATY-BACKED GULL for Newfoundland - surely one will reach Britain soon

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A few photos of a Slaty-backed Gull that I found today at Quidi Vidi Lake in St.John's Newfoundland. Amazingly,this is our 11th or 12th ...

........and LESSER WHITETHROAT makes it 244

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It’s 244. This Lesser Whitethroat has been visiting my fathers garden in Nottingham on and off since before Christmas. We think it’s blyth...

Places available on LGRE Spring Tours

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I have several available places on my annual ISRAEL tour of this spring (15-29 March 2010) if any of you are interested. It is a full itiner...
Monday, 18 January 2010

African HOUBARA BUSTARD population bolstered by Emirates help

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The Emirates Centre for Wildlife Propagation has proudly proclaimed breeding 44,000 HOUBARA BUSTARDS in captivity since 1997, including a s...

243 down

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As we commence the third week of January 2010, a grand total of 243 species have been recorded in Britain and Ireland 1) Great Northern Div...
Saturday, 16 January 2010

BLACK-THROATED THRUSH remains star attraction

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A female BLACK-THROATED THRUSH in North Yorkshire continues to be the lead attraction as the snow starts to melt across the country as milde...
Wednesday, 13 January 2010

EAGLE OWLS at large in Britain - yet another target bird on the Fera hit list - but now new evidence suggests that some may be of natural origin

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An autopsy and isotope analysis of a EURASIAN EAGLE OWL picked up dead as a road casualty in Thetford Forest has apparently proved positive...
Tuesday, 12 January 2010

The Cornish PALLID HARRIER - an excellent selection of images obtained by local birder Brian Field

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This juvenile PALLID HARRIER , photographed here as it glided across the fields near Sennen school, West Cornwall, has been wintering in the...
Monday, 11 January 2010

PALLID HARRIER in Cornwall........and another garden BLACK-THROATED THRUSH

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A juvenile PALLID HARRIER , present in West Cornwall since the first few days of December 2009 (Roy Phillips), has shown well for three cons...
Friday, 8 January 2010

The Deep Freeze continues

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Last night, the overnight temperature in Altnaharra in Sutherland reached an alarming minus 22.3 degrees - the coldest night for many a deca...
Wednesday, 6 January 2010

Most of UK and Ireland covered in blanket of snow

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The winter weather that first arrived in Britain on 18 December 2009 stepped up a gear in the past 24 hours, with a blanket of heavy snow, i...
Tuesday, 5 January 2010

NORTH AMERICAN EIDER in IRELAND on 2 January

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All, photos attached of the possible NORTH AMERICAN EIDER (dresseri) found by myself and Derek Charles at Glasagh Bay, Fanad, on 2 January 2...