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Somerset & Bristol Bird Lists
Blagdon Lake yesterday added grey phalarope and arctic tern to the former, which lost Slavonian grebe to the latter because I’m getting fussy about county borders again. The new rule, to match the...
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Little Gull, Chew Valley
From the Stratford Hide this dainty bird was barely distinguishable from a tern but later at Moreton it danced close enough to show its striking wing patterns. Even at a great distance though the...
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Apart from the great crested grebe, locally the highlight was finally catching up with one of the black redstarts that have been reported round Portishead Pier and the beach below the Royal Hotel. For...
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Greylag Geese, Portishead Marina
This is a bit of a crappy photograph taken on my iPhone, which is not a patch on the old Nokia (that I’m selling on eBay – hint, hint!) but it records my 115th species for the town. The list now...
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An Early Spring
What with my earliest singing blackcap on the 28th of last month; blackbirds yesterday; bees and red admirals in abundance at the end of February, including one that found its way into the house in my...
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Baby Blackbird
Since Friday this little chap has been a guest at Pokerbird WHQ. God knows how he (if male he is – I think so) got in to our backyard. As you may see from the second photo it’s a death-trap typical of...
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Birding in the Rain
The weather is keeping my usual start to the month list at bay – weather that’s entirely consistent with global warming, by the way. And not just in this country: it’s all over the States at the...
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Woodpeckers & Water
I’ve lived in Port Marine for two and a half years and reckon it long enough to have seen the common birds, especially as I’ve walked its length and breadth. Imagine my surprise when a juvenile great...
View Article3 Years of Port Marine Birds
January 2010 I returned from a snowy Scotland and started logging the birds around here. This month seems like a good checkpoint as I might be moving, back into Bristol or, easier for Yatton, on to...
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White-winged Tern, Chew
Portbury Wharf View Another Friday evening dash from work to Chew Valley Lake to catch a bird that might move on any time. This one was on its way from Southern Russia to East Africa, so a little off...
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