Welcome to WingSearch2020. This is the first in a series of personal insights into the work of people who have a passion for conservation. Today we focus on Yoav Perlman who spent 4 years living in Norwich whilst working on his PhD at the UEA. I stumbled upon Yoav’s blog whilst setting up my own…
Memories of April 2013, when I used to write a weekly blog post for Norfolk Wildlife Trust highlighting the seasonal wildlife to be found at Cley Marshes. This post is from Easter 2013 – early April – when the reserve was at the mercy of biting easterlies. Other archive articles can be found here. Another…
A Look Back – The first of a series of blog posts I wrote for my Blogger site Easternbushchat a few years ago. I plan to collect together these nostalgic scribbles to tell a seasonal story of my most treasured locations. This one was penned, or rather typed, during Easter 2016, which in that year…
The art of small raptor identification can cause confusion until you get familiar with their shapes and habits. We all know a hovering bird by the roadside will be a kestrel, but are less sure when we see something soaring around at height. Getting to grips with a few key features will help a lot…
Mothing is a subject that seems to invoke strong emotion. A friend of mine hates moths with a vengeance, protesting her loathing of these demonic creatures of the night with a shudder. She refuses point blank to even take a tentative peep into a moth trap. despite my reasoned arguments that they are harmless and…
Welcome to the latest account of Garden Wildlife Watching. I distinctly remember a conversation I had with my son many years ago when he was quite young, but old enough to engage in some philosophical musing. The family was idling at a café in some light dappled Mediterranean sea front village taking in much needed…
With the advent of spring comes a new cast of birds to delight and entertain us. Before April is out most of our summer migrants will have arrived and be busy claiming territory, selecting mates and otherwise engaged in propagating their species. Among the more familiar and obvious species that chose to spend the long…
Welcome to my early emerging butterflies identification guide. By ‘early’ I mean those species that emerge during March/April, although some can be encountered in warm, sunny spells even earlier. Of our nearly 60 species of butterfly, only 6 overwinter as adults emerging with the first warmth of spring sunshine to delight us with their colour…
Large birds of prey seen soaring overhead or glimpsed fleetingly from a passing car can cause a great deal of confusion as to identity. Let’s have a look at three species that can be encountered hereabouts of similar size and basic shape and that often occupy adjacent habitats: marsh harrier, common buzzard and red kite….