Every year I like to keep a record of the number of bird species I see; I don’t go chasing birds for my year list but it is interesting to record what I see from year to year and provides me with a way to keep enjoying seeing birds that I have seen many times [...]
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Birdwatching in UK: Six Weeks Back Home
October 17th, 2011 
nick From mid August to the end of September 2011 I spent six weeks staying with my family in southeast England. Whilst many British people head to Thailand for some warmth it was nice for me to get out of the humidity and heat for a while and experience some cool weather; in fact apart from [...]
Birdwatching in Britain: My Trip
October 2nd, 2009 nick Back in Thailand I have been going over my notes from my 5 week visit to England. It wasn’t really a birding trip, just a visit home, although I did go out birding a fair bit. In total I saw 129 species. The best of which I suppose were Red-backed Shrike, Great Egret and Glossy [...]
British Birding: Glossy Ibis
September 14th, 2009 nick There seems to have been a mini invasion of Glossy Ibises into Britain over the last week with around half a dozen birds present. Last Thursday I caught up with one at Stodmarsh in Kent, the first time I have seen this species in Britain. However, I have seen plenty of them in India and [...]
Birdwatching In UK: A Day at Dungeness
September 8th, 2009 nick Back in the UK it is always nice to catch up with some birds that I haven’t seen for ages due to being in exile in Thailand. Having been back for a few weeks and already met up with most of the commoner birds I decided to head to the shingle headland of Dungeness on a [...]
How to be a Good Birdwatcher
May 7th, 2009 nick Recently I was thinking of how to pass on tips on how to be a good birdwatcher onto other people and how to get feedback and more suggestions from a wider audience. I settled on making a page on Squidoo.com which gives a few tips on the subject and contains a guest book where people [...]
Clever Crows
September 9th, 2008 nick Crows and other corvids have long been recognised as being among the most intelligent of birds, indeed among the most intelligent in the animal kingdom. When I was young my father used to tell me stories of a pet Jackdaw that he had which had learned to say a few words and on “The Life [...]
