Thursday, 28 June 2012

Some great birds shared with some great friends......

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What an amazing experience - up close and personal with a whole family of WESTERN BROWN FISH OWLS in Turkey - and watching them w...
Wednesday, 27 June 2012

LGRE back in Britain at moment and available to answer emails....

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Apologies for not being able to get back to individual enquiries but very busy with scheduled trips at moment in WP including a very success...
Monday, 18 June 2012

Lee's Round Britain trips in 2013 - reserve your place now

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John Foster has very kindly put together some of the highlights of our Round Britain tour in May 2012 where we recorded no less than 189 spe...

LITTLE BITTERN supports Team GB

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Stocker's Lakes' LITTLE BITTERN clearly supports Team GB in this year's Olympics, preferring each day to keep clos...
Friday, 15 June 2012

Still my favourite bird of the year - the CREAM-COLOURED COURSER

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A most memorable twitch of 2012. My good friend Mike Lawrence took these magnificent pictures. Bird of the Year so far in 2012...
Thursday, 14 June 2012

HEDGEHOGS in stark decline

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Due to the incessant use of slug pellets in suburban gardens and elsewhere, Hedgehog populations are in serious decline. Hedgehogs actually ...
Monday, 11 June 2012

Wettest June since records began forecast

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Rain, rain, rain.....and more rain - and gale force winds too - and all set to make June 2012 the wettest since records began. All proving d...

SNOWY OWL trip

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Ron Marshall was able to get these stunning images of North Uist's adult male SNOWY OWL last week at Sollas. This is one of m...

ROLLER still wowing the crowds

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He's still present ! This glorious male EUROPEAN ROLLER is still frequenting the tilled field east of the B1242 just north of Al...
Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Yorkshire ROLLER continues top billing

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In East Yorkshire, the adult EUROPEAN ROLLER continues to delight large numbers of admirers in its favoured tilled field east of the coastal...
Monday, 4 June 2012

Another Scilly regular passes away - the REVEREND ROBERT KEMPSTER

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Many of you will remember Robert Kempster, a Newton Abbot birder who was a Scilly regular throughout the 1970's, 1980's and 1990...
Thursday, 31 May 2012

WESTERN ORPHEAN WARBLER in Cleveland - 31 years since the last !

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A fabulous European Roller at Spurn (Martin Garner http://www.birdingfrontiers.co.uk/ White-collared Flycatcher at Tory ...

LGRE is back

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Finally back from my recent trips including the hugely successful Round Britain tour..... This May trip recorded 189 species, surprisingl...

WESTERN ORPHEAN WARBLER trapped and ringed in CLEVELAND

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Click here for video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9zFqsOrevdc The first ORPHEAN WARBLER to be recorded in ...
Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Join me in TURKEY from 20-26 June 2012

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I am visiting Turkey from 20-26 June this summer, mainly with the purpose of seeing the BROWN FISH OWLS near Side, but also visiting Akseki,...
Tuesday, 15 May 2012

Cold and wet spring proving disastrous for our resident and migrant breeding birds

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This family of COMMON TREECREEPERS were huddled up this weekend at Minsmere Reserve (Suffolk) in the hope of keeping warm (Sally Douglas). ...
Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Total reaches 350 species....

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As of today, the total number of species recorded in Britain and Ireland in 2012 has risen to 350...... With the majority of summer migra...
Monday, 30 April 2012

ATLAS PIED FLYCATCHER trapped and ringed this evening

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A male ATLAS PIED FLY near Ifrane in Morocco late April (Peter Adriaens) and the Flamborough flycatcher in the hand (Andy Hood) T...

UK mega: apparent ATLAS PIED FLYCATCHER in East Yorkshire

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On 28 April, an apparent ATLAS PIED FLYCATCHER was photographed by Brett Richards at Flamborough Head (East Yorkshire) constituti...
Friday, 27 April 2012

More on IBERIAN CHIFFCHAFFS

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I have received a very long essay from my friend and expert Spanish birder Dani Velascuo Lopez. He knows Iberian Chiffchaffs very well and h...