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…
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…
Cley Marshes 1st May 2013: a continuation of the weekly account of my volunteering duties at the NWT reserve a few years ago. One interesting aspect of visiting a place every week is that you get a real sense of how things change as a season progresses. It is sometimes quite surprising the difference a…
Liz Dack will be well known to many readers of this post. She is an exuberant evangelist for the cause of wildlife, a great supporter of Norfolk Wildlife Trust, excellent photographer, knowledgeable naturalist and jolly good company. I first encountered Liz whilst working for NWT and helping to manage their Wildlife Information Service. Liz was…
Welcome to Lockdown Wildlife Watching 20th-27th April 2020. What a glorious week of sunshine we’ve had. How wonderful to look up into a totally unblemished sky of pale blue from which the sun has beat down relentlessly. Shame about the chilly wind, but ho hum. The streets are full of families out for walks or…
Meet Darren Archer who I’ve known for something like 40 years, first in the capacity of me as a Young Ornithologist Club Leader here in Norwich, and he an enthusiastic YOC member. As time moved on we started birding together all over the county with our annual ‘Big Day’ in May always the highlight. Our…
Martin Kelsey OBE lives and works in Extremadura where he runs a guesthouse and bird tour business. Extremadura is a beautiful, quite unspoiled and wildlife rich area of Spain that I have visited and would dearly love to go back to. Martin writes a wonderfully descriptive blog which paints a vivid picture of the majesty…
Cley Marshes 7 years ago to the day, would find me walking around the NWT reserve on my weekly volunteering duty. I wrote about it for the NWT blog and reproduce it here. In these days of frustrating confinement, it provides a flavour of what we are missing. We can, of course, take comfort from…
I met Allan Archer whilst volunteering in the Visitor Centre at NWT Ranworth Broad. His infectious enthusiasm for all things wildlife was apparent from the start, as was his prodigious knowledge of blues music. We spent several evenings during the summer of 2018 setting up a moth trap so that we could display live creatures…
Welcome to the latest edition of Lockdown Wildlife Watching covering the w/e 19th April 2020, the third in this series whilst we endure the Covid-19 lockdown. Previous blogs can be found here. We go about our business here in a northern suburb of Norwich watched over, for the most part, by an umbrella of translucently…