Link and you’ll miss it

My links section (eyes right -> ) is in danger of becoming stagnant and out of date. First of all aPalling Birding announced that it was calling it a day, and now the excellent profanisaurus that was Skills-bills also throws in the (suspiciously crusty) towel. This is sad – these guys made for entertaining reading. How [...]

Wintery

Went out yesterday with no hope of seeing anything whatsoever, and the birding gods duly obliged. An hour and a half of walking the mutts around the patch turned up a single Woodcock, and a showing-characters-of-Siberian Chiffchaff. I should have put the effort in with the latter, but a) it was bloody cold and I [...]

Cock mad

Felt quietly optimistic when I finally rolled out of bed this morning ready to start a new day’s birding. The forecast day of westerly shite went elsewhere, so we had a reasonable day of sunshiney periods, and every field around the house was hooching with thrushes. More Redwings and Fieldfare today than yesterday (though god knows [...]

They think it’s all over…

Feeling hugely inspired by the events of Wednesday (and hugely relieved that JLI made it back to the isle in time to see the Hume’s Warbler yesterday), I spent every hour of daylight today birding. It was mainly crap, with some frustrating bits, and a few unusualish birds.
No sign again of the Hume’s, but a [...]

Hume’s Warbler

Keen readers of the blog (you both know who you are) will have noticed the utter lack of any updates for over a month now. There’s a good reason for that – the complete lack of birds to talk about. I could tell you all about my week’s holiday birding the island from dawn to [...]