The mid summer doldrums do not offer many interesting birding options when you don’t live close to coastal sites but when the weather is bad and you have burned up the morning watching the Olympics on television it is useful to have only a short drive to a spot on the River Thames where a [...]
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Gulls on the Thames | British Birding
July 30th, 2021 
Nick 
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Bird Photography at Abberton Reservoir | British Birding
June 22nd, 2021 Nick June can be a tricky time of the year for birding in Britain with little movement of birds and the excitiement of returning migrants over. Bird abundance is quite low too meaning that bird photography can be quite challenging unless one happens to be lucky enough to be close to breeding colonies of seabirds. However, [...]
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Finding Common Grasshopper Warbler | British Birding
May 21st, 2021 Nick Common Grasshopper Warbler, Locusteall naevia, is the bird that is usually simply known as “Grasshopper Warbler” throughout Europe. This bird is just one of a group of similar species in the family Locustellidae that are found in many parts of the world and generally these birds are skulking and hard to see. However, when they arrive [...]
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Swanscombe Peninsula Bird Photography | British Birding
May 19th, 2021 Nick Bearded Tit is one of the most striking of bird species in Britain and one that is coveted by many bird watchers and photographers alike. Having made a number of bird photography trips with Michael Wong recently he had expressed an interest in photographing this superb bird but with lots of windy weather it had [...]
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Dunlin Rhynchokinesis | British Birding
May 14th, 2021 Nick Feeding niche and bill evolution specific to prey was shown by Charles Darwin to be an extemely important factor in speciation in birds and this is seldom so obvious than in shorebirds. The wide range of bill sizes and shapes in shorebirds is an obvious indicator to the different feeding techniques they employ and the [...]
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Spring Birding at Dungeness | British Birding
May 5th, 2021 Nick Early May and Spring migration is in full flow with large numbers of common migrants arriving, passage migrants passing through and resident species in full song with many of them well into their breeding cycle. What better day to head to one of Kent’s bird migration hotspots: Dungeness. This mass of shingle extends into the [...]
Nesting White Storks | British Birding
May 1st, 2021 Nick Anyone in Britain who has an interest in bird conservation and wildlife is likely to have heard of the White Stork Project which aims to reintroduce White Storks to the UK. Equally the successful nesting at the Knepp Estate Rewildling Project is likely to be on the radar of most nature-lovers in UK and as [...]
