Doing most of my birding in Thailand I do not get to see seabirds very often; only on my visits back to UK. So, as part of my visit to the north east of England I decided to pay a visit to the RSPB’s clifftop reserve at St Bees Head well aware that it was [...]
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Seabirds at St Bees: British Birding
August 16th, 2015 
Nick 
Posted in Birdwatching in UK, Nature, Northern England 
Tags: bird watching, bird watching in britain, bird watching in thailand, britain, british bird watching, british birding, british birds 
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Nesting Bee-eaters in Cumbria: British Birding
August 15th, 2015 Nick For few weeks now the RSPB has given British birders the opportunity to watch European Bee-eaters nesting at a sand quarry near Brampton in Cumbria. Bee-eaters are a very rare breeding bird in UK and this, combined with their colourful plumage, has meant that many people have made the journey to northern England to see [...]
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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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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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