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Month: May 2020

Orchids

Posted on 30 May 202030 May 2020 by birder

Orchids are beautiful creations – you don’t need me to tell you that – but can be surprisingly easy to overlook. I visited New Buckenham Common recently with a friend to have a look at the green-winged orchids that grow there in abundance, a good show this year. I would like to share with you…

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Lockdown Wildlife Watching 18th – 25th May 2020

Posted on 28 May 202028 May 2020 by birder

Another instalment of Lockdown Wildlife Watching 18th – 25th May 2020. Maybe we can now call it semi-lockdown, although I haven’t ventured far, mainly because I really don’t want to put pressure on those habitats and species that have become so used to not having us humans around. In any event the garden provides enough…

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Dragonfly Identification Pt 1

Posted on 25 May 20204 August 2020 by birder

This article, Dragonfly Identification Pt 1, is aimed at those folk who have an interest in nature, would love to be able to identify our colourful and enigmatic dragonflies, and could do with a little help. In this first instalment, I’ll look at the larger species that come under the umbrella of ‘hawkers’. The second…

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Bermuda Shorts – May

Posted on 22 May 202023 December 2020 by birder

Welcome to Bermuda Shorts. It’s always interesting and enlightening to hear about and see images of wildlife that inhabits foreign lands. I’m delighted to be able to include these short blogs from countries very different to our own. This first is from Jessica Riederer who I had the pleasure of meeting when she worked as…

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Lockdown Garden Birdrace

Posted on 18 May 20209 January 2022 by birder

My mate Darren Archer hit upon the idea of staging a Lockdown Garden Birdrace. This was envisioned as just a bit of fun between like minded people frustrated by our inability to get out and indulge ourselves in some proper birding. Or at least that was the plan….things have a habit of developing a life…

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Lockdown Wildlife Watching 28th April – 13th May 2020

Posted on 14 May 202014 May 2020 by birder

Welcome to Lockdown Wildlife Watching 28th April – 13th May 2020. Weather is all. Give us sunshine and warmth and all is well; get out into the garden, rummage around and discover. Give us chill northerly winds and rain and suddenly it all changes and isn’t quite so much fun! Anyway, an update on the…

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Vanna Bartlett

Posted on 12 May 202022 December 2023 by birder

Vanna Bartlett has recently published a fascinating book, ‘Arthropedia: An Illustrated Alphabet of Invertebrates’, which tempts us to marvel at the diversity and beauty of those smaller creatures that we quite often dismiss or simply overlook. The artwork is superb, the need for such an accessible work unquestionable. I feel privileged to be able to…

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Israel – April 2015

Posted on 7 May 20207 May 2020 by birder

A few days spent in Israel – April 2015 – immersed in spring migration at Jerusalem and Eilat, a fantastic experience. This post summarises my impressions of witnessing masses of birds at close quarters. The post first appeared as a series in my blogger site which is worth a look if you’re interested in my…

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Neil Donaghy

Posted on 5 May 202022 December 2023 by birder

I met Neil Donaghy in his capacity of tour leader of a combined art/wildlife trip to his beloved South Wales. The few days spent in his company were memorable for the wonderful sightings we had of chough, red kites, migrating passerines and a fantastic convolvulus hawkmoth shown to us by local moth trappers. Neil was…

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Extremadura, Spain

Posted on 3 May 20205 May 2020 by birder

This blog post summarises a week long visit to Extremadura, Spain during the early spring of 2015. We travelled with Naturetrek and had a fantastic time immersed in the landscape, the history and of course the wildlife. The impressions are my own. You can read much more about this in Martin Kelsey’s profile and his…

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