Tag: Birdwatching
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Last weekend, I had the pleasure of catching up with the long-staying male Black-throated Thrush at Whipsnade Zoo, in Bedfordshire (a long way from home…
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It’s shaping up to be a good year for Bohemian Waxwings (Bombycilla garrulus). Sure, the much anticipated ‘waxwing winter’ – an irregular spectacle marked by…
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Before yesterday commenced, I had only seen three Red-necked Grebes in my lifetime. Two as distant apparitions amid undulating heat haze on a vast swath…
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I don’t know about you, but whenever I talk to a birder with decades of experience I leave the conversation with two feelings. First: admiration,…
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I dislike our tendency to name storms and weather fronts almost as much as I dislike our habit of blowing such things entirely out of…
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There is still time this weekend to take part in the RSPB’s annual Big Garden Birdwatch – a fabulous (and fun) scheme which contributes greatly…
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Unless you have been living under a rock, or are simply disinterested in this sort of thing, you will surely have heard by now that…