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Welcome to my blog all about my birdwatching, wild bird ringing activities and moth recording at Linacre Reservoirs, Derbyshire; in Great Britain and abroad.

Sunday, 23 November 2025

Lake Naivasha Cruise - 27th July 2024

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After our stay at Lake Nakuru, we drove across to Lake Naivasha, where we enjoyed an hour long boat ride, adding 5 new species of bird and ...

Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Rufford - 15th November 2025

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Yesterday, I had a couple of hours at Rufford. It had been raining very heavily for the previous twenty four hours (!), and the water level...

Sunday, 16 November 2025

Linacre Ringing and WeBS

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On 26th October, I was down at Linacre for a ringing session. We managed to catch 61 birds, including our first Redwing of the winter (a j...

Saturday, 8 November 2025

Rufford - 29th October 2025

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On Wednesday 29th, I popped across to The Carrs, at Church Warsop, to see if there were any ringed gulls around. I saw 2 new birds. Afterwa...

Monday, 27 October 2025

Spurn Point - 25th October 2025

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On Saturday, Jayne and I went over to Spurn Point NNR to visit our nephew, who is volunteering there. Whilst there, we had an eight and a h...

Sunday, 19 October 2025

Rufford - 12th October 2025

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Last Sunday, I was down at Rufford for a couple of hours, and had the best session of the autumn so far with 18 ringed birds (16 of "ou...

Sunday, 5 October 2025

Red-backed Shrike

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This weekend, Jayne and I were don on Norfolk. We spent yesterday in Norwich, and then went up to the north coast for a spot of birding toda...

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