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Category: Birds

Of Dragonflies and Butterflies….and a Hobby!

A trip to the London Wetland Centre in search of late summer dragonflies and butterflies last week. Lots of Migrant … More

Canada Goose, Common Darter, Grey Heron, London Wetland Centre, Moorhen

Dungeness

A trip with Nicole and Andrew to the south-east coast of Kent and the weird and wonderful world of the … More

Garganey, Insects, Red Admiral, RSPB Dungeness

Wessex Wildlife

A few days away from London in Early August and the chance to look for Butterflies and Dragonflies in Southern … More

Butterflies, Dragonflies, Portland, RSPB Lodmoor, RSPB Radipole, Weymouth

Some good news, some bad news

This morning I did the second, and final, summer walk this year for the BTO Breeding Birds survey at Eltham … More

Breeding birds survey, Eltham Park

A walk around the local patch

After the bad weather of the past few days it was a relief on Tuesday to see Blue skies and … More

Tarn, Tarnwood park

Close encounters of the Wagtail kind

On our trip to Dungeness last Wednesday, we had an amazing encounter with a Pied Wagtail. As we were driving … More

Pied Wagtail

This may be the last time

Following the news that the Gravesend -Tilbury ferry service was being withdrawn due to funding issues, Keith and I thought … More

7 spotted Ladybird, Dock bug, Golden Dung Fly, Peacock Butterfly, Tilbury

On the Mandarin’s trail

After I visited the British Museum (See Tuesday’s post), I went to Hyde Park to see if I could find … More

Hyde Park, Mandarin Duck

A very welcome visitor

Looking out of my window at Breakfast time a few days ago, I noticed a small brown bird making its … More

Treecreeper

The right place, the right time

I travelled up to the centre of London the other day and arrived at the station early. I don’t mind … More

Buzzard, Red Kite

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