Certificates of Merit

Up & coming Suffolk birder Oliver Slessor is the latest birdwatcher to receive one of the BBA/UK400 Club's prestigious Certificates of Merit (see above). It was whilst working at Landguard Nature Reserve that Olly discovered the first SHORT-TOED TREECREEPER for Suffolk.

Certificates are also available to those achieving other ornithological accolades -:

A Day List achievement, be it at national or county level

A Year List achievement, be it national, County or Patch

A Life List Achievement, 400, 450, 500, 550 or any increment of 1 above 550

All certificates cost £5.00, fully inclusive of postage & packing

Simply email Lee LGREUK400@aol.com any requirements

Up close and personal with yet another GREY PHALAROPE!

I just cannot resist the temptation of a GREY PHALAROPE and when I heard that yesterday's Farmoor 1 Reservoir's bird was still present, I had to get over there today and see it. They are such beautiful birds, so delicate and precious. I laid down and had the privelege of the bird swim to within inches of me - I felt the ripples from its incessant feeding. Heaven! Here is just a small selection of the 400 or so images I took today of one of my favourite birds.....