Spring Flowers and a Hairy-footed Bee

The season on my local Butterfly and Dragonfly survey doesn’t start till next week, but I thought, given Monday was … More

Searching for Spring

Yesterday Keith and I went to Tilbury and Gravesend in search of spring migrants and early Butterflies and Bees. We … More

January Started the year with a lot of local birding and it was a local bird which took the highlight … More

I am not sure if I have mentioned it before but I like to have a focus for each year … More

The news that a group of Bee-eaters, a colourful visitor from southern Europe had taken up residence in a disused … More

Thinking about it it, I guess it must be about two years now since I last visited the RSPB reserve … More

These are a couple of pictures of a Harlequin Ladybird, which we found on our car windscreen at home the … More

I haven’t been able to visit the RSPB reserve at Minsmere since February so it was good to reconnect, even … More

Come with me to one of the best Nature Reserves in the country as we visited Oare Marshes last week. … More

The reserve was relatively quiet bird-wise with the highlights being a small passage of House-martins and a juvenile Buzzard, which … More