I spent the last few days walking in the mountains in the Lake District National Park, but on my way I decided to stop off to look for a couple of unusual birds, the first being an adult Sabine’s Gull which had been reported as present for a few days at Pennington Flash, near Manchester. [...]
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Growths on Legs & Feet of Birds
August 4th, 2015 
Nick While bird watching at Ashdown Forest a few days ago I spent some time trying to get some good photos of some of the commoner birds occurring in woodlands. A Treecreeper kept me occupied and frustrated for some time until I noticed a male Chaffinch foraging close by in the leaf litter. I was able [...]
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Reporting Ringed Birds – British Birding
August 2nd, 2015 Nick A lovely sunny day prompted me to head to Dungeness on the coast of Kent this morning in the hope of seeing some terns and gulls at the water outlet of the nuclear power plant – “the patch”. Unfortunately there were very few birds at all there, just 20-30 Herring Gulls of varying ages and [...]
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Ashdown Forest – British Birding
August 1st, 2015 Nick Woodland and heathland birds in UK have both declined in numbers in my lifetime and many species that used to be common now seem to be scarce even in what looks like good habitat. The populations of some heathland species have now stabilized or even increased, probably due to improved habitat management, although others, particularly [...]
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Returning Waders – British Birding
July 29th, 2015 Nick July is a month when waders begin their migration south, from their breeding grounds and it is a good time to see some scarce species as well as some commoner ones in near breeding plumage. Many of the earliest migrating waders are adults that have failed in their breeding attempts as well as some successful [...]
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Shellness; Gulls & Waders – British Birding
July 27th, 2015 Nick Shellness, on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, is a location where large numbers of birds can be seen at more or less all times of the year. Today I made a late morning/early afternoon visit to see if there were any interesting passage waders at the high tide roost in the hope of getting some [...]
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Yellowhammer: British Birding
July 27th, 2015 Nick Yellowhammer is a bird that should be common in the farmland close to where I come from in Northwest Kent. There is a mixture of arable and pasture with plenty of hedgerows which should supply this species with a suitable habitat, but I can walk a long way without hearing its distinct call. Around 25 [...]
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