Showing posts with label Peregrine Falcon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peregrine Falcon. Show all posts
Saturday, 13 June 2026

Nightjars, Woodcock, White Stork and a Peregrine!

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 The four birds in today's title were all seen in the last 24 hours in my home county of Derbyshire! The first bird, Nightjar (170), wa...
Sunday, 23 February 2025

Year List Update and a Lifer (nearly!)

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 I last updated the Year List at the end of January, and, since then, I've added 6 new species, including a "near lifer"! Firs...
Saturday, 10 February 2024

Frampton Marsh - 3rd February 2024

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 Last weekend, Jayne and I had a drive over to Willow Tree Fen and RSPB Frampton Marsh , clocking up an impressive 11 species for the Year ...
Tuesday, 15 August 2023

Linacre - 13th August 2023

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 I had two hours down at Linacre on Saturday afternoon (1pm - 3.15pm). The weather was okay, at 18 degrees, overcast and breezy, but with a ...
Saturday, 4 February 2023

Scarborough Med Gulls

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 Most years at around this time, Jayne and I pop across to Scarborough for a day to spot a few birds, including one of my favourite birds, t...
Sunday, 12 January 2020

Scarborough 11th January 2020

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On Saturday, I spent a few hours in Scarborough, with my wife and daughter. As always, I started off the birding in the Holbeck Car Park, wh...
Sunday, 13 October 2019

Linacre Ringing - 12th October 2019

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After a couple of wet and windy weekends it was really nice to get out to Linacre again for a ringing session yesterday. I was there with 5 ...
Sunday, 1 September 2019

RSPB Frampton Marsh - 2 Insect Lifers

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It's not often that I go to an RSPB reserve and get more insect "lifers"  than birds, but today that is exactly what happened ...
Monday, 4 March 2019

Year List Update - 4th March 2019

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The "Year List" has moved on again, with several new species added at Carsington Water last weekend (numbers 119 - 121), Red-legge...
Saturday, 6 January 2018

Year List 2018

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Last Monday I was out for my first birding trip of 2018. I just had a few hours around home and managed to see 45 species.. I started the ...
Saturday, 7 October 2017

Year List Update - 7th October 2017

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I haven't update  my 2017 "Year List" since August.  There haven't been too many additions since then, but I have added Sh...
Friday, 28 July 2017

Year List Update - a Lifer!!

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On Tuesday, Jayne and I spent 4 hours on a wildlife watching boat trip with AK Wildlife Cruises in Falmouth Bay. The trip was aimed mainly ...
Friday, 14 April 2017

Big Moor Year ticks

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Jayne and I had a couple of hours on Big Moor this afternoon. It was pretty blustery, but we walked from the road up to the old reservoir an...
Monday, 23 January 2017

Scarborough Birds

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I was in Scarborough yesterday, with Jayne and Lydia. It was sunny, for an hour or so at least, but cold. Whilst there I managed some nice b...
Saturday, 13 August 2016

Tennyson Down and The Needles

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On Wednesday, Jayne and I spent a good few hours walking around Tennyson Down and The Needles , on the far west of the Island. The weather w...
Thursday, 31 March 2016

Black-necked Grebe and Colour-ringed Turnstones

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I'm off for the Easter holidays at the moment, so I decided to head off to Scarborough for the day with Jayne and Lydia. The sun was shi...
Tuesday, 10 November 2015

CRAG MARTIN!!!

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When I looked at the national bird sightings on the Bird Guides website ( see here )  on Sunday, I saw a record of a Crag Martin that had b...
Saturday, 14 February 2015

North East trip adds to the Year List

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Although the weather wasn't great yesterday, we decided to have a trip to the coast. We decided on Tynemouth near Newcastle, as this mea...
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