Showing posts with label Year List 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year List 2014. Show all posts
Thursday, 1 January 2015

Ring-billed Gull ends the Year List

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Happy New Year everyone. I've been away to Hampshire for a few days, so this post is a little late for the end of 2014. However, bette...
Sunday, 21 December 2014

Siberian Chiffchaff

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Common Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) is, as the name implies, a common summer visitor to Britain. These birds are recorded throughout...
Saturday, 1 November 2014

Norfolk Highlights

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It's been half term this week, so I spent a couple of days in Norfolk with Jayne. We were based in Wells-next-the Sea, and whilst there,...
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Saturday, 20 September 2014

Black Redstart

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Black Redstarts are very uncommon birds in Derbyshire, so when news of a summering bird at a site just 30 minutes from home, came out in Ju...
Saturday, 13 September 2014

More Mipits and a (near) record Goose Count

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After last week's success ringing my first Meadow Pipit of 2014  I was very pleased to hear that we were heading back up to a moorland...
Saturday, 30 August 2014

Northumberland News

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After our holiday in Suffolk at the start of the summer (see here  and here ), Jayne and I went up to Northumberland for a break last week....
Sunday, 17 August 2014

Bird Fair 2014

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On Friday I went down to Rutland Water with my nephew, Luke, to visit this year's British Bird Fair . I like to go along every year to l...
Friday, 8 August 2014

RSPB Frampton Marsh

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Yesterday I drove over to the RSPB Frampton Marsh reserve in Lincolnshire and spent a few sunny hours watching the birdlife, including coup...
Monday, 28 July 2014

Carr Vale Ringing - 2 new species

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On Saturday I was out ringing with my trainer and Brian from The Sorby Breck Ringing Group , at the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust's Carr Val...
Friday, 25 July 2014

A Week in Suffolk

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I've just been down to Suffolk for a week's holiday, and in between visits to Southwold and Aldeburgh, and sitting on the beach in a...
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Wednesday, 25 June 2014

RSPB Nightjar Walk

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On Friday I spent 4 hours in Clumber Park with several members of the Chesterfield RSPB Group , on our annual trip to see the Woodcocks and...
Tuesday, 3 June 2014

Barn Owl chicks

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Earlier in the year I was talking to another member of the Sorby Breck Ringing Group at an event, when he told me about a nestbox on one of...
Sunday, 11 May 2014

Year List update and a new bird for Linacre

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In the 9 years that I've been watching and recording the birdlife at Linacre there is one species of bird that, although very common in ...
Sunday, 4 May 2014

Ringing, Nesting, Year List addition and a new insect

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I thought today's title should give you some idea of what I got up to at Linacre yesterday morning, so I hope it does exactly that. Fi...
Saturday, 26 April 2014

Yellow Wagtails at Carsington

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This time last year I went up to Carsington Water to see some passage Yellow Wagtails. I've been checking Birdguides all week, and spott...
Friday, 25 April 2014

Year List update

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I've had a chance to "tick" a few birds over the last couple of days, so I thought I'd update the old "Year List...
Wednesday, 23 April 2014

Norfolk Highlights

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Just back from a couple of days in Norfolk, where I visited a couple of good reserves and added 17 species to the "Year List". F...
Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Linacre Birds and Nestboxes- an update

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This morning I went down to Linacre to have a first check of the nestboxes, following reports from around the country and from Stewart at Th...
Saturday, 5 April 2014

Returning Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Cowslips and Tawny Owl success

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This morning's ringing session at Linacre was excellent with 3 Chiffchaffs (2 new and a retrap from last year),1 Blackcap (the first L...
Sunday, 30 March 2014

Chiffchaff ringing

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Following on from last week's blog about my first Chiffchaff sightings of the year, today I was out ringing with The Group , and I mana...