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With South Polar Skua and Kelp Gull under our belts we spent two days (3rd and 4th) at Somideo Natural Park looking for mammals, leps and mountain birds HERE and HERE . Highlights included a male and female Brown Bear, Pyrenean Chamois, Red Deer, Red Squirrel and we also had Wild Boar on the journey to Estaca. Some nic
I arrived at Porto, Portugal on Sunday night (30th August) and met up with Vincent Legrand and Rene-marie Lafontaine and we drove through the night to Estaca de Bares in Galicia, Spain. After a very uncomfortable very short sleep in the car we went on to complete a 13 hour seawatch HERE . We also did another 10 hour se
On Wednesday afternoon (2nd) we left Estaca de Bares and headed east towards Santander to twitch a long staying Kelp Gull that arrived in Northern Spain in December 2024. The bird was at Laredo Port HERE and we were able to locate it within a few minutes of arrival. Will add some more notes on age and moult when I get
It was a wet and windy Saturday and we had my dad's 80th birthday party in the afternoon so not much recording done apart from a bit of garden birding and the moth trap. A nice little bit of vis-mig over the garden HERE with a Tree Pipit, 21 Yellow Wagtails west and 57 'Pied' Wagtails going south (but presumably roost
A westerly airflow resumed yesterday bringing with it some rain yesterday morning. Unfortunately I've been working today and yesterday but got back from London yesterday in time for a quick session at Church Norton HERE and this morning I abandoned my post and did a couple of hours on East Side with the rising tide HER
There's a really nice diversity of bird migrants at the moment so yesterday and today I got to Church Norton at dawn to explore. August is such a great month for high diversity and abundance. Yesterday HERE in the continuing brisk south easterly the main spectale was about 600 Sand Martin and 100 Barn Swallows over the
There was a strong southeast wind today which was unusual. I decided to do East Side as I knew this would be sheltered from the wind. It didn't pick up until mid-morning and there were a few Yellow Wagtails and a Tree Pipit going over first thing. With a 0915 four meter high tide I wasn't expecting too much as a four m
The wind shifted round to a light easterly and it felt quite autumnal this morning with Yellow Wagtails, a flock of 20 Redshank and a Common Sandpiper flying over the garden. After doing the moths I decided to head to Church Norton to look for migrants. I met up with Ian and we had a nice little morning with a Spotted
It was a bit topsy turvy coming back from the holiday rain and cool temperatures in Scotland to the hot and dry conditions back home, exaggerated by the beginning of the fifth heat wave this summer. It really has been an extreme summer this year with several serious wildfires and droughts across the country. Our local
It was mainly a week of family stuff and work with a two day trip to Hampshire (to Paulton's Park), a work day with Matt around the lodge on Thursday and in London working on Friday. Therefore natural history highlights have been restricted to the garden and moth traps and on Thursday I took Jacob to a Young Explorers
The last two days of our trip were basically driving back home with a few stops. After leaving Blyth and Jacob's first full English breakfast with black pudding, we had a quick stop at Heddon-on-the-wall to see Hadrian's Wall for Jacob's school photo and then we headed to Bakewell in the Peak District for the rest of t
Been hoping for one of these as it's a episodic speciality to the Selsey Peninsula. A nice surprise in the relatively quiet traps this morning following the arrival of the first proper rain in weeks over the last couple of days. A lifer and moth 706 for the garden and 511 for the year. <a href="https://blogger.googleus
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