Dartford Waffler

With it now officially being spring I went to Swinemoor Common in high expectation of something interesting having arrived by now; I wasn’t disappointed!
A good amount of water still remains creating a nice habitat for wetalnd birds. A large flock of around 200-300 Golden Plovers were bathing and their numbers were growing by the minute. […]

Outside my flat in Beverley today I was watching a male Collared Dove chase around a female when he decided to mate with her. My celebration of this as a sign of spring was muted somewhat by a sudden blizzard of snow and then hail. Needless to say that this event also put an end […]

Some warm, spring-like weather meant that staying in front of a computer all day would have been a travesty, even though my dissertation work was begging me for some attention. So, a walk to Eske/Pulfin fen was decided upon!
Just a few hundred metres along the path, a large raptor appeared. At first I assumed it […]

For some time now I’ve known about the rediscovery of Large-billed Reed Warbler in Thailand after Phil Round notified me that he’d caught one whilst mist netting at the royally initiated Laem Pak Bia wastewater management program in Petchaburi province in Thailand. The bird was caught back in March 2006 but it has taken quite […]

My wife, Srasri, decided she wanted to go for fish and chips at Hornsea after work this afternoon, so off we went to make the most of the late afternoon sun. As usual we had too many chips, so we decided to feed what was left to the gulls.
After a few seconds we had around […]

Maybe I’m being too optimistic but all around me I’m beginning to see signs of spring all around me. Yesterday, my birdwatching walk on Swinemoor, brought me yet more spring-like experiences. Although there was still a large congregation of wintering gulls, including around 200 Black-headed Gulls, 150 Common Gulls and 6 Herring Gulls (5 adult, […]

Despite the fact that there are some signs of spring around such as flowering snowdrops, lesser celandine and even some leaves opening on small trees, a short trip to Bridlington harbour yesterday afternoon proved that winter is still in town with a number of wintering waders still obvious.
Along the southern side of the harbour wall […]