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Entries by David Lindo
Shoreditch House Private Members Club
Over the past few years I have been giving an increasing number of talks up and down the country as well as abroard. Most of the time it’s to RSPB Groups, Wildlife Trust members or bird clubs but recently I have been speaking at some interesting non-wildlife venues speaking to people who readily admit that […]
Farewell to an old Scrubber!
Anders Price (Russell F Spencer) Anders & TUB on Tower 42 Wormwood Scrubs lost a birding soldier today to the bosom of the United States, Washington State to be exact. Anders has been a loyal Scrubber for the past two years after arriving on these shores a husband to an American Diplomat who was on […]
Arne RSPB & Cecil Fowler
I spent a wonderful Sunday in Dorset with members of the Hawk & Owl Trust led by the lovely Cherry Barlow. She had organised for me to lead a walk at Arne RSPB Reserve along with the very knowledgable Rob the Warden. Prior to the walk we took a quick stroll onto the heath were […]
TUB on the Tower
Spent the morning on Tower 42 filming for both Butterfly Conservation and with ARD the German public service channel – equivilent to Britain’s BBC. I’m shooting a documetary with them on urban birding in London.
The Serbian Long-eared Owls
A Long-eared Owl peeping down at me I’ve been back from my wonderful trip to Serbia last Friday and I’m still stunned by the beauty of this country that has had more than its fair share of troubles recently. Nonetheless, the nature available to be seen by visiting birders is astounding. I had great views […]
Life in Serbia
Sniffing around The Wild West Rural idyll Cropfield Anyone for Cricket? A Stone Martin What am I? A Firebug that’s what I am! One of many Long-eared Owls
The latest from Serbia
European Bee-eater (Russell F Spencer) Another hot day in Serbia with highlight being a soaring Long-legged Buzzard – a personal first – as well as truckloads of Long-eared Owls and Purple Herons. Tomorrow’s my last day in this surprising country. Stay tuned.
LEO Slayers
Long-eared Owl (Russell F Spencer) The phenomenon that is the super abundance of Long-eared Owls in Serbia is astounding. In Rusanda Park in the Pannonian Plain, which to all intents and purposes is an average looking park next to a spa and attached to a large lake, there are literally tons of breeding LEO’s all […]
Serbian Surprise
Yellowhammer (Russell F Spencer) Little Owl (Russell F Spencer) I think that one of the biggest surprises in my urban birding career has been my experience in Serbia. In terms of wildlife it is a complete treasure trove. I have been taken by the sheer number of birds, the amount of habitat (paticularly farmland) that […]
East Grinstead
Yellow-billed Stork (David Fettes) No, I didn’t see a Yellow-billed Stork in East Grinstead at my talk to the local RSPB group, but I did mention my recent trip to Ethiopia again tonight. The stork was one of the species that I spied on that visit. My talk was ostensibly about urban birding and in […]
What a nice Hobby I’ve got!
Eurasian Hobby (Russell F Spencer) My trip to The Scrubs this morning was well worth it. Aside from discovering a fledgling Reed Bunting proving that they bred in the grassland for the second year I enjoyed the sight of many juveniles of several species being fed by their respective parents. The problem I had though […]
Disappointing day in the office
Collared Dove (David Fettes) After deliberating and procrastination for nearly five weeks I finally finished an article on farmland birds for Countryfile Magazine in the wee hours of this morning. That’s a heck of a long time even for a lazy git like me. You may be surprised that I refer to myself as lazy […]
Me and Boris at the City Hall
I was invited to speak at the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust’s ‘ a celebration of learning outside the classroom’ at the City Hall alongside Mayor Boris Johnson and the WWT’s CEO Martin Spray. I had a great evening and the WWT staff are certainly a great bunch of people who really looked after me. TUB […]
Date with the rain
Eurasian Jackdaw What a washout! Today I was in Plymouth being guided by great birder and ace twitcher, Sarah McMahon around the plentiful sites in the metropolitan area of her adopted home city. I say adopted as she hails from Leicester. What would have been a great day turned into a day of wet misery […]
The Observer Ethical Awards 2011 at the V&A
Mixed with the in crowd tonight but spent most of my time chatting with Bill Oddie, who has promised to pop over to The Scrubs in the autumn. TUB presenting an award with the lovely Lucy Siegle TUB gassing Lucy with the Oscar winning Colin Firth Lily Cole
Back to reality
Cirl Bunting – Dean Eades I think I’ve finally caught up with myself, at least on my blog. At last I can write about things that are happening in real time. Not that there is much going on at the moment that’s worth boring you about. The major thing in my life right now is […]
The Holy Quail
On May 17th I was lucky enough to be walking the Liben Plains in southern Ethiopia doing habitat transects in the company of BirdLife International’s venerable Dr Nigel Collar (google him as he’s a Don) within the known range of the poorly known and severely threatened Liben Lark. We strolled through an area of slightly […]
Alderney revisited
Hopefully from tomorrow I will be up to date with my blogging that I have so woefully neglected for the past month. I spent the weekend before last on Alderney in the Channel Island primarily to partake in the Alderney Bird Race organised by the Alderney Bird Club. My team won with a whooping, by […]
Ethiopian Birds
Here is a tiny selection of images from my recent Ethiopian trip. All images are copyright of Russell F Spencer. Liben Lark doing a Harrier Jump Jet impersonation! Liben Lark in song flight Liben Lark Eastern Chanting Goshawk Bateleur Pygmy Falcon Moorland Chat Abyssinian White-eye Somali Short-toed Lark