Showing posts with label Green Woodpecker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Green Woodpecker. Show all posts
Sunday, 23 August 2026

RSPB Minsmere - 22nd August 2026

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 Yesterday, Jayne and I had an early morning visit to RSPB Minsmere . We had three hours on site (6.30am - 9.30am), and added a new butterfl...
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Wednesday, 11 March 2026

Woodlark

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Jayne and I had a walk around Sherwood Forest and Budby South Common at the weekend. Although the weather wasn't great (grey and overcas...
Sunday, 20 July 2025

Year List Update - 20th July 2025

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As always, at this time of the year, the Year List slows down, as most of the easier-to-find species have been recorded. I have, however, ma...
Monday, 14 July 2025

Hardwick Hall - 12th July 2025

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 It's been in the high 20s, low 30s this week, so Jayne and I made an early(ish) start for our walk around Hardwick Park and Hall. We wa...
Wednesday, 10 January 2024

Linacre - 7th January 2023

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 After our week away, I was back down at Linacre on Sunday for my second walk of 2024. It was a cool 3 degrees, grey and overcast. Birds see...
Monday, 3 April 2023

RSPB Winterbourne Downs - 2nd April 2023

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 Jayne and I have had a few days down in Wiltshire, visiting a few new sites and  seeing some nice birds. Our first new site was RSPB Winter...
Sunday, 27 February 2022

Linacre WeBS - 27th February 2022

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 This morning, I went down to Linacre to carry out this month's WeBS count. It was a beautiful, bright morning with a slight frost. The...
Sunday, 18 April 2021

Linacre Ringing and Nest Recording

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 This weekend I've had two visits to Linacre, once for the first ringing session there since September 2020, and once for the first nest...
Saturday, 27 February 2021

Linacre Reservoir - 27th February 2021

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 It was a bright, sunny and calm morning this morning, with a temperature of just 1 degree at 7am, as I arrived at Linacre. I spent 2 hours ...
Friday, 2 August 2019

Rye Harbour Nature Reserve

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Jayne and I have had a week in East Sussex, staying in Rye Harbour. Whilst there, we had a couple of walks around the Sussex Wildlife Trust...
Sunday, 6 January 2019

Linacre - First visit of 2019

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On Wednesday, Luke and I had our first visit of the year to Linacre. We walked around the middle and top reservoirs recording the following ...
Saturday, 22 September 2018

Linacre Ringing - 22nd September 2018

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This morning I was down at Linacre with 4 other members of Sorby Breck Ringing Group . We had 4 hours on site and caught 38 birds (new/retra...
Sunday, 22 April 2018

Linacre Ringing and Nestboxes- 21st April 2018

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I was down at Linacre yesterday morning with Luke and 5 other members of Sorby Breck Ringing Group for a ringing session. We also had time ...
Tuesday, 20 February 2018

Linacre WeBS and Nestboxes - 20th February 2018

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I was down at Linacre this morning, with 2 jobs to do. The first job was to replace a few of the nestboxes that had been damaged by Grey Squ...
Sunday, 18 February 2018

Kestrel - new species at Linacre

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I was down at Linacre this morning for the second ringing session of the year. We started off well with a great catch of 14 Long-tailed Tits...
Saturday, 3 February 2018

Linacre - 3rd February 2018

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Luke and I had a couple of hours out at Holmebrook Valley CP and Linacre this morning. Despite persistent drizzle, and a little bit of sleet...
Wednesday, 31 May 2017

Red-footed Falcon!!

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News of a 1st summer male Red-footed Falcon on Dunwich Heath on Tuesday evening had me up early (again!) this morning, to see if I could ca...
Sunday, 2 April 2017

Avenue Ringing - 2nd April 2017

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After a few weeks without a ringing session it was really nice to get out and about again today. I spent 3 and a half hours out with 4 other...
Sunday, 4 September 2016

Linacre - 4th September 2016

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According to meteorologists Autumn begins on 1st September, so today's visit to Linacre was the first autumn visit of 2016. When I arriv...
Monday, 22 August 2016

Linacre WeBS - 21st August 2016

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This Sunday was the set date for this month's WeBS count, so Luke and I went down for a couple of hours to see what was about. Numbers ...