I am not a photographer by any shape of the imagination, I am more of a ‘point and shoot’ merchant, and as such I carry a bridge camera when out in the great outdoors, as an addition only to my notebook to record what I observe. I tend to be out early …
I love real ale and I love pubs, but over the years Gail has introduced me to the delights of tea rooms, and in this case a tea garden. I’m not going to abandon real ale and pubs, for coffee and croissants, but if we are out and about watching wildlife…
I don’t know what’s come over me, two posts in two days, I’m back on track…sort of! One of my favourite counties is Argyll, in fact as you know, I love the west of Scotland full stop! For a few years running we had our annual holiday in the Oban area…
I am one of those people that can’t work from home, because the majority of my working time is spent carrying out Ecological surveys, and in the main bird surveys. In addition to this, any survey work that I do for planned development has been classed …
It’s about a week since I had a garden mega, in the form of a Wheatear, and I mentioned the lockdown garden birding competition I was taking part in run by Steve at North Downs & beyond. What I didn’t tell you was how many bird species I have recor…
Earlier in the week the forecast looked quite interesting for Saturday (18th) morning; an easterly wind with a weather front moving north, that potentially could bring some rain in before first light. Thoughts of a fall occurred! However, by Friday eve…
I’m catching up for two reasons; the first is catching up my blog, and the second is catching up with some summer migrants at last!Yesterday morning I visited the farm fields on the coast close to home, and I had a walk under 1 okta hazy cloud, with a …
I don’t keep lists of birds that I have seen, and I am not criticising those that do, but I have no idea what my life list is, how many birds I have seen in the UK, or even year lists. However, I do keep a garden list for birds and moths. Why just m…
I love islands, particularly Scottish ones, but I find that all islands have a magic quality to them, and none more so than the Farne Islands or Lindisfarne in Northumberland. And Northumberland is a beautiful county, so that adds to the magic.One of m…
I had a new species of moth for my garden in the moth trap this morning, in the form of a beautiful Ruby Tiger. From the picture below it is easy to see how it got its name. The further south the redder they are, and the further north the browner/drabb…