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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.

Saturday, 30 November 2013

Colour-ringed Black-headed Gull at Linacre

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Every winter Linacre Reservoirs are visited by between 80 and 100 Black-headed Gulls , which normally stay until April, and every year I sca...

Monday, 25 November 2013

Barn Owl Box Adoption

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Back in 2005 Jayne adopted a nest box for me through the Adopt a Box scheme run by the Hawk and Owl Trust. Yesterday I got my update for ...

Sunday, 24 November 2013

Weekend Ringing

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I managed to get out ringing twice this weekend with the guys from Sorby Breck ; Saturday we were at Linacre and today we spent four hours a...

Saturday, 23 November 2013

Starling Murmaration

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For several years now, Jayne and I have been talking about visiting a Starling roost/murmaration. There are several to be found around the ...

Derbyshire Bird Report 2012

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Hot on the heals of the BTO Atlas came another superb publication through the post this week: The Derbyshire Bird Report 2012. As alwa...

Wednesday, 20 November 2013

BTO Atlas arrives!!

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Over the last few days I read a lot of tweets from people around the country telling everyone that the new BTO Bird Atlas 2007 -2011 has ar...

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Garden Moths and Spider Update

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I had the moth trap out in the garden for a few hours on Saturday night. I only caught 4 moths, but 2 of them were new to me. The first had ...

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