It is not always necessary to travel far to see good birds. There is often the temptation to travel to bird hotspots or to chase after rarities to satisfy the urge to enjoy seeing a variety of scarce and interesting birds. However, today I was reminded that by spending time watching birds close to home [...]
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Great Grey Shrike | British Birding
November 2nd, 2020 
Nick Chasing around after rare birds is a style of biring that can either be a rewarding addiction, if you connect with the species you are looking for, or a disappointment if you end up in some supermarket car park only to be told that you should have been there half an hour ago. I don’t [...]
Birding Walk in the Churchyard | British Birding
October 28th, 2020 Nick On a day of showers with sunny spells I took a short walk across the fields to the local church at Sutton-at-Hone which has a nice variety of trees and overgrown patches that make it a mini wildlife haven. I arrived in the mid-morning, during a sunny spell and a high level of bird activity [...]
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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A Walk along Caerfanell Brook, Brecon Beacons | British Birding
September 18th, 2020 Nick The sound of the fast-flowing mountain stream known as Caerfanell Brook always takes me back to holidays with my family when I was a child. I remember sitting with our feet in the cool waters to relieve ourselves from the hot weather we experienced one year when a Dipper turned up right next to us! [...]
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