birdwatching from the bunkers
Alderney,Channel Islands: From the wartime fortifications, sentries could gaze down over a cavalry...
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a glimpse of a dipper brightens the day
A long weekend in the western Highlands of Scotland gave me the opportunity to catch up with several...
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now the guns have fallen silent
North Stoke,West Sussex A large, black brown hen harrier, and with slender wings and white...
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the gothic charm of cormorants
Wenlock Edge In recent years these diving fish-hunters enjoy become ubiquitous in freshwater lakes...
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grebe joins dippers in the highlands
Loch Ruthven,Highlands There was a splash as the Slavonian grebe landed close to the hide. What...
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a fast food joint for gulls
Sandy,Bedfordshire Locals come down to throw out whole loaves of cheap sliced bread for the resident...
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desolate shores draw birds and birders
Anthorn,Solway Firth But it is the waders that drew us to the remote Solway estuary. Mudflats,...
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skylarks take to the air with an early seasonal...
It’s been a strange winter – or,perhaps I should say, a strange pseudo-spring. In the lanes...
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a welcome migrant who prefers somerset to south...
The warbling of robins and the trilling of wrens,a singing song thrush, the tall-pitched roundel of...
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rasping birds of paradise
Cwmpengraig,Carmarthenshire A jay. It will be here soon enough, once it’s finished its taunting of...
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life in the saline margin
Church Norton,West Sussex As the sun comes out, a slender grey greenshank wakes from its slumber and...
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the wonder of worm fuel
Rockland,Norfolk She drops, then pounces, and twisting foot to beak,and pulling on the lank, pink...
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flight of the goshawk
South Downs,West Sussex There’s an explosion of flapping wings above the forest as dozens of wood...
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birdwatch: long eared owl
In birding,as indeed in life, it’s what you don’t expect that can be confusing. And on a sunny...
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we re all birders now: the joys of an encounter...
A birdwatcher and writer explains why the scarce sighting of an American flycatcher species in Kent...
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the woods are calling
Billingshurst,West Sussex Tawny owls have a wide range of vocalisations, but this is clearly a male...
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an elusive little sprite
It’s hard to assume a bird that weighs less than a two pence coin travelling all the way from...
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here for the dawn
Claxton,Norfolk The two lines of poplars by the lane were suddenly filled with 2000 jackdaws from...
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