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Desert Wheatear, Severn Beach
Desert Wheatear, Worthing © Ron Knight News of this came through more than a week ago. Being at work meant an agonising two days of hoping it wouldn’t fly on. I’d also booked to go to Bournemouth on...
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Water World
Coming to a Flood near You A fine time to go birding is Christmas Day. Away from the excess and hypocrisy to celebrate in my own way. And where better than the Somerset Levels? Especially as they’d...
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England Month List
Pennington Marsh, Hampshire How’s this big month going? Not well. I may have pooh-poohed my record effort of 135 in May 1998 but three weeks now have brought me a mere 94 species. It’s taken the...
View ArticleGlossy Ibis, Weston STW
Where STW stands for sewage treatment works. An acronym that birders know well but is more lost on the general public. After all, the latter don’t flock to such places for their leisure whereas the...
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Black-Winged Stilt, Meare Heath
Mystery Moth, South Downs My 154th species for the year and one that I’ve not seen since the long-stayer at Titchwell in 2004. In this country that is: Barcelona and Malta have supplied sightings in...
View ArticleYear List Doldrums
After a few attempts yellow-legged gull finally made its way onto the year list. Herriotts at Chew Valley Lake a fortnight ago was again the venue. The bird wasn’t obvious at first so I went for coffee...
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Wryneck, New Passage
Wryneck, Israel © Marcel Holyoak The day after Frampton’s marsh sandpiper, Twitter was abuzz with news of this relative of the woodpeckers. Knowing from experience that the species doesn’t hang around,...
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The Year List Fizzles Out
Gaol Ferry Bridge, Bristol When you score zero out of a possible four species, you know the game is about up. So it was just before Christmas on the saltmarsh between Brean Down and the Axe Estuary,...
View ArticleChittening Warth
My second visit to this coastal outpost of Avonmouth and getting parked was even worse. Double yellows everywhere that wasn’t downright private. I did find a spot just by Hallen Marsh Junction and...
View ArticleGreat White Egret, Bristol
Well, this wasn’t on my list of targets. So, when a white heron flew along the shore at Chittening Warth, I fully expected a little egret to fill my binoculars. My first check is always the colour of...
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