The arrival of some birds really gives you a sense of the time of the year and for me when autumn comes around in UK I look forward to seeing Purple Sandpiper. This handsome little wader breeds within the arctic circle but at this time of the year they move further south and small numbers [...]
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Purple Sandpiper Close Encounter | British Birds
October 21st, 2020 
Nick 
Posted in Bird Behaviour, Birding in East Anglia, Birdwatching in UK, Nature, Shorebirds 
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Colour-ringed Herring Gulls x 3 | British Birding
October 13th, 2020 Nick A few weeks ago I came across three different Herring Gulls with colour rings on their legs within the space of just a few days, all in roughly the same area; the Swale in North Kent, UK. The first of the three birds I noticed briefly on the shoreline before it took off. I took [...]
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Bearded Vulture in Lincolnshire | British Birding
October 13th, 2020 Nick Bearded Vulture, or Lammergeier, is a bird I have seen in the high mountains of the Himalayas, Tien Shan, Alps and Pyrenees but when I heard of reports of the long-staying bird in UK from a little north of Peterborough, in the southern part of Lincolnshire, the chance to see it in the lowlands of [...]
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Autumn Birds on Isle of Sheppey | British Birding
October 9th, 2020 Nick Another window in the blustery and wet weather conditions yesterday gave me the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors. Where to go? There were some interesting birds reported from the far east of Kent and rarities in other parts of the country but there is one place that keeps drawing me towards it; the Isle of [...]
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Isle of Grain & Hoo Peninsula Birds | British Birding
October 6th, 2020 Nick It was with some sense of relief that I looked out of the window this morning and saw that after several days of awful weather the skies had finally cleared so a birding excursion was quickly planned. A group of Whooper Swans had been reported a few days previous on nearby Hoo Peninsula, near the [...]
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Ruddy Turnstone Feeding Behaviour | British Birding
September 29th, 2020 Nick Whenever I visit stony or rocky coasts around Britain, no matter what other birds of interest there are to enjoy watching, eventually I am always drawn towards Ruddy Turnstones. These comical little characters are always busy running around on the rocks or among piles of seaweed, grabbing morsels of food and bickering with each other [...]
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Some Curious Gulls at Dungeness | British Birding
September 25th, 2020 Nick With strong winds from a promising direction at a promising time of the year I headed to Dungeness, on the south coast of England, in hope of seeing some interesting seabirds blown close to the coast. After a couple of hours of looking at a couple of distant Gannets, a pair of Common Scoters and [...]
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