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- October 2009 (14)
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Another new species for my Somerset list with an adult feeding two juveniles yesterday evening. Technically Lytes Cary should have the honour because a spotfly was hawking near the pictured bits of topiary late afternoon. In the name of efficiency though I’ll not add that National Trust house to my site inventory, unless it comes up with a real stonker some time.
Not that more…
More like downpours today and last night, so a little reluctant to venture on to Portbury Wharf. The shopping needed doing anyway and the route back from Eastwood and Battery Point allows that.
I included the Point in a forlorn hope that the gale-force gusts may have blown something up the Bristol Channel. The tide was out, so more…
OK, I made that word up to fit the title but Portbury has settled into its late June torpor. The swan family boasts eight cygnets; more juvenile wagtails abound; three buzzards soared after a strange absence since the beginning of April.
Locally the goldfinches are busy with more…
Middle of June. Late afternoon. A recipe for no birds. And so it proved but I had to get out: too much time hunched over the laptop, recreating my genetic algorithm thesis – the next door I’ve chosen to close on the path to riches.
No birds, apart from juvenile pied wagtails. But possibly a more…
I’m going mad! This is now out in the self-guided books although that’ll be pretty much it. I have one rail tour in the pipeline, then I need to concentrate on something that will actually make me some money.
I don’t know whether anyone else has experienced this but I get a lot of click-throughs from [...]
Heron’s Green Bay is where I’ve seen the herons, or rather egrets. I must remember that because I’m always confusing it and Herriott’s Pool – two t’s in this seems to be the consensus for its spelling. The Bay is the first public access point on the way in from Bristol if one follows the west side of the Lake.
So, that’s where I started today, even though my double quest of more…
Car-free species 104, it had to happen: the Wharf is perfect for this little falcon. The last couple of days have netted me a local patch list of 55 – 40 of them yesterday just wandering around Portishead.
I’m amazed. In my write-ups for the bird tours, even the most renowned sites only have a visit expectation of about more…
No-one listens. It’s that time of year when baby birds abound and look abandoned. “Leave ‘em where they are or, if in immediate danger, move them nearby,” is the answer to the perennial question of what to do.
So, what did I see at Eastwood today? A woman showed me a fledgling blue tit in her [...]
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