Common Terns

The Common Tern is a summer visitor to the UK, which is present from April to September. It breeds along … More

Naturelog: Thursday 26th June (3)

Final stop on Catch up Thursday is my home patch, the Tarn. There is not as much activity at the … More

Next stop on catch up Thursday is Sutcliffe Park LNR. Again Meadow Brown butterflies are the dominant species on the … More

Decide that today I am going to catch up with all my local dragonfly and butterfly survey work for June. … More

A warm sunny afternoon and a good excuse to quit work for a while and go and walk around the … More

A trip to Thursley NNR in Surrey today with the RSPB group. Thursley has some very good birds including Hobby, … More

A lovely afternoon and so I decided to take a walk around the Tarn. Stopping first at the small pool … More

They say that familiarity breeds contempt and that certainly might be true in the case of the Black-headed Gull. One … More

Despite a brief shower when we got back from the Tarn the weather improved again and so I decided to … More

I had set today aside to do some Butterfly and Dragonfly recording in Surrey, but on waking up and finding … More