Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Product Review: CATCHING THE BUG by Mark Constantine and Nick Hopper

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Mark and Nick at Birdfair 2012 - the authors of this fabulous new Sound Approach production Catching The Bug - A Sound Approach Guid...

Product Review - FAIR ISLE BIRD OBSERVATORY REPORT FOR 2009 and 2010

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FAIR ISLE BIRD OBSERVATORY REPORT for 2009 and 2010 Fair Isle Bird Reports are always of a terrific standard and this one is no exception...

Rare Bird News

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Just a reminder to say that constantly updated bird news is now transferred to my Online email group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Online...
Wednesday, 22 August 2012

More Birdfair Images

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Mark and Matt of the Sound Approach, signing books for Duncan and Pieter of Wildsounds, with the main man himself MR ...
Monday, 20 August 2012

Birdfair 2012

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Had a very enjoyable few days at this year's Rutland Birdfair seeing friends such as David Lindo and Mark Constantine pictured a...
Thursday, 16 August 2012

NORTH RON on fire

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North Ronaldsay on Orkney really is the place to be at the moment with a daily dose of sumptuous rarities........ Today it attracted the ...
Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Rutland Bird Fair this coming weekend

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This weekend sees the annual Rutland Water Bird Fair take place and for the first time in a few years I shall be visiting.I shall be fl...
Tuesday, 14 August 2012

Impressive falls on the Northern Isles

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With strong Southeasterly winds, both Fair Isle and North Ronaldsay have been quids in. The former attracted 2 CITRINE WAGTAILS, a Common Ro...
Monday, 13 August 2012

Latest arrival in the family

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This is SMUDGIE - the latest addition to Carmel and I's ever-increasing tribe of cats. Fascinating to watch her with one of our ...

Last week's STILT SANDPIPER

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Frank Golding obtained this outstanding series of images of last week's moulting adult STILT SANDPIPER in Northumberlan...

Apparent dark morph ELEONORA'S FALCON in WEST CORNWALL on Saturday

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Falmouth birders Jono and his girlfriend Deborah Rogers came across and photographed this dark-morph apparent ELEONORA'S FALCON at ...
Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Product Review: Best Birdwatching Sites: North-East England

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Well what an exciting day it turned out to be. Firstly I received an outstanding Osprey ageing and sexing article written by John Wright for...
Monday, 6 August 2012

August gearing up

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A summer-plumaged STILT SANDPIPER graces the scrape between Low Newton-by-the-Sea and Newton Pool (Northumberland) for its second day, const...

STILT SANDPIPER in Northumberland

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An adult STILT SANDPIPER remains for its second day at Low Newton-by-the -Sea (Northumberland) on the scrape between the village and Newton ...
Wednesday, 1 August 2012

BAILLON'S CRAKES invade

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Unconfirmed reports suggest that survey workers searching and listening for calling Spotted Crakes this spring unearthed no less than a stag...
Tuesday, 24 July 2012

First TEREK SANDPIPER of year

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An adult TEREK SANDPIPER on the River Adur at Shoreham for about 30 mins this evening. It was found by Chris Corrigan just before 8pm who th...
Friday, 20 July 2012

SHARPIE on Orkney

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Still present on Swartsmill Loch this evening - Don and Sandra Otter obtaining these excellent photographs. FIRST RECORD FO...

SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER on Orkney

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A worn adult SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER is this evening on Westray (Orkney) - the first record for the archipelago and the 388th species of 2012...

Autumn begins......as summer weather arrives

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21 July in the avian world is traditionally the first day of autumn in UK and Irish birding, although the forecast weather for next week sug...
Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Norfolk CASPO gives itself up

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A CASPIAN TERN, most likely that which has been wandering East Anglia in recent weeks, appeared at Strumpshaw Fen RSPB Reserve, east of Norw...