Nightjar
Nightjar (photographer not known) I held a Nightjar tonight! I can’t believe it! I’m delirious! Emotionally overcome! I’ll talk tomorrow!
Entries by David Lindo
First Whinchat for the autumn
No awards for this Whinchat shot! I strolled from my home to The Scrubs again this morning as the motor is currently on the operating table at BMW Mini. It took 40 minutes. Whilst walking I suddenly realised that I could have caught a tube and been there in a fraction of the time. I […]
Everybody needs the sunshine
My day started with my usual trip to Wormwood Scrubs in the hope of finding the next whatever. There was no chance of that happening this morning. The place was deadly quiet under an equally dead looking sky. I spent the rest of the day either knocking out some tunes on on my twin decks, […]
Crossed a lot of rivers, seen a lot of land….
‘Life is what happens whilst you’re busy making plans’ is what John Lennon once famously said – or should I say sang. My plans were scuppered when my flamin’ laptop had to be rushed into Apple A&E due to its inability to take electricity. Whilst it was a way I went to Hull and back […]
Summer
After last night’s heavy downpour, I was really hoping for a nice fall of migrants with a couple of cool scarcities like a Common Redstart or Pied Flycatcher. Three Willow Warblers were all I could muster. It was a humid though quite dismal day until late afternoon when the sun decided to come out. Come […]
Cuckoo!
The Scrubs this morning This morning’s light drizzle felt good. I had a good feeling – surely I’d find a nice migrant or two. Common Whitethroats were much in evidence at 6.30am this morning whilst I strolled through my realm with at least 25 frequenting the embankment and grassland area. I also found another Sedge […]
Tomorrow’s another day
I just seem to be getting busier and busier these days. I’m spending hours in front of a computer screen knocking out word after word. Some days I almost miss the days when I didn’t write a thing and spent more time dreaming. Speaking of dreaming, I didn’t make The Scrubs this morning but that […]
The Smell
When will my first Northern Wheatear show up? The autumnal scent is now wafting into the air. After visiting The Scrubs on Friday morning and this morning I noticed that there was a discernible change in the avian atmosphere. Over the two mornings I counted at least 22 Common Whitethroat many of which feeding large […]
Sum totals
Another wet and horrible morning (despite the above picture). The weather guys truly had us going, what with their barbeque summer crap. This morning into the early afternoon was spent shooting with a production company in the streets of Soho and in Regents Park. Luckily the rain held off for us. That was the sum […]
Trumpets
Great Burnett (Dave Renham) I’ve just realised that July is rolling to a close and there is little chance of me hitting The Scrubs for a proper birding session until August. I feel utterly ashamed. It’s like I have abandoned a child or eaten the last biscuit in the tin. Okay, during June there were […]
London Natural History
The morning of my London Natural History Society walk to Barn Hill/Fyrent Country Park dawned and for a change I got up early to recce the country park. I wanted to make sure that the walk wouldn’t be too long for any disabled, elderly or extremely young participants. My pre-walk resulted in a fleeting view […]
Sweet victory
European Robin (Chris Adlem) At last I tasted victory. The loosing tide was halted and we recorded a resounding victory against the old adversary – an adversary whose nucleus I have played against every Saturday for the past six years. Celtic v Rangers every weekend. After our post match breakfast instead of indulging in a […]
Coming along
Goldfinch (Dean Eades) At last there is a small light at the end of the tunnel, although it is still but a pinprick. I finally put together the visuals for my Bird Fair talk with the help of photographer, Dean Eades. The concept of putting together and submitting the visuals so far in advance is […]
Slight panic
A Puffin I had a productive day apart from the fact that I’ve not completed the slideshow for my talk at Bird Fair. It has to be with them by Friday – which basically means posting it tomorrow, which means putting it together tonight which equates to PANIC!!!! I’m presenting the prizes at the RSPB/Transport […]
Graft
The Scrubs, looking east An interesting day today. It started with the obligatory lie in bed until 8am. To be fair, it was pretty dismal outside with the usual rain. I wouldn’t have gone to The Scrubs if I’d gotten up early anyway. Later, I had a fairly successful meeting alongside my agent with a […]
Results
The usual story prevailed this morning with an imaged 5.30am start ended up as 8am. I did the final tickles on my Firth of Forth piece for the RSPB and pressed the send button. It’s very difficult to condense a cruise down the Firth, the birds and the people in just 500 words. The moment […]
I’m only sleeping
It should have been easy and pleasurable. Instead it was arduous and laborious. Yes, I was talking about getting out of bed early to go to The Scrubs this morning. The alarm chimed at 5.30am and after dreaming that I was out of bed and observing a first for Britain at my patch, I finally […]
Trading
It was a terrible morning on the football pitch. We lost miserably 8-3. This loosing business is becoming a bit of a habit. I must add though, that my team are not terrible players. It’s just that we keep on loosing! After my customary post brunch with the lads siesta, I ventured to the local […]
Dizzy rascal
A bad move involving the consumption of chocolate raisins last night resulting in me feeling pretty unwell the following morning with another episode of my weird headache-less migraines. I was pretty dizzy for most of the day. I finished my RSPB article on my recent trip to the Firth of Forth only to decide not […]
Slowly getting there
Forth Bridge, Edinburgh, Bonny Scotland Once you stop doing a blog for a while it takes time to get back into the swing again. I find myself wanting to give you all a blow by blow account of my recent trip to Finland and show all one thousand pictures of bears in various poses. But […]