Wow! We have now had two days of sunshine in a row, in fact today there is hardly a cloud in the sky: after two months of rain and flooding it must now be summer. With the weather far too good to stay in, even with a dodgy ankle I took a walk along the [...]
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British Birding: Seabirds at Flamborough Head
July 30th, 2007 
nick Finally, the sunshine came out, so I had to get out. However, I badly twisted my ankle a few days ago so walking was out of the question, therefore I decided to go back to Flamborough Head to just sit and watch the seabirds. On arrival a stiff northerly breeze was creating quite a swell [...]
Scarlet Pimpernel
July 27th, 2007 nick They seek him here They seek him there Those Frenches seek him everywhere Is he in Heaven? Or is he in Hell? That demned illusive Pimpernel. Odds fish m’dear!
Flamborough Head
July 24th, 2007 nick Yesterday I suddenly realised that I hadn’t seen any seabirds this year and as Flamborough is just 40 minutes away I drove there whilst the weather was acceptable. I didn’t see anything unexpected but it was nice to watch large numbers of Kittiwakes, Gannets, Puffins, Razorbills and Guillemots go about their business. Lots of Gannets [...]
Blea Tarn and Eskdale
July 22nd, 2007 nick With another huge fried breakfast inside me I headed uphill from Boot village towards Blea Tarn. The by now customary Yellowhammers, Willow Warblers, Wrens and Chaffinches were joined by plenty of Robins, including a number of juveniles, and a family party of Great Tits. Once upon the ridgetop a Raven flew over doing its best [...]
A ridiculously long walk
July 20th, 2007 nick After a large cooked breakfast I headed up Eskedale through some beautiful, mossy woodland – immediately, a Spotted Flycatcher showed itself, perching on a fence post. On closer inspection there was a whole family of Spotted Flycatchers, noisly flitting about with the young begging for food. The flycatchers were just part of a feeding flock [...]
Eel Tarn and Burnmoor Tarn
July 20th, 2007 nick I decided to go to the Lake District National Park for a few days, despite the weather forecast being for rather poor weather. The national park took me about 3 hours to get to, but the journey took another hour as I was heading for the western lakes, probably the most spectacular part. I headed [...]
The Flooding continues at Eske
July 16th, 2007 nick This afternoon I walked up to the lake at Eske, but very little about apart from a pair of Grey Partridges on the walk up. The water level of the River Hull has hardly gone down at all since the flooding a few weeks back and many fields are still so far under water that [...]
Rainham Marsh
July 14th, 2007 nick On my way back home to Beverley I decided to take a look at the RSPB’s new reserve at Ranham in East London after reading about it in May’s edition of Birds; the fact that a Spoonbil had been hanging around there for a few days helped sway the decision. I assumed (wrongly) that the [...]
Dartford Marshes
July 13th, 2007 nick I haven’t been to Dartford Marshes for a couple of years now; quite frankly, that is because it isn’t that great a place and when I’m home I usually visit other sites; however, I decided to take a look today to see what was about. Dartford marsh is not much of a marsh really, just [...]
