It is getting decidedly colder as we approach the weekend. The weather people are predicting snow and freezing temperatures next week. Great. This morning’s stroll around The Scrubs although pleasant was fairly unproductive with just 1 Fieldfare, 2 Redwings and maybe 3 Lesser Redpolls to show for my efforts. Later in the afternoon I allowed […]
You may remember from one of my recent Bangkok entries the reference to a species of flycatcher found by my good friend and Bangkok resident, Dave Gandy, in Suan Rot Fai, also known as Wachirabenchathat Park or Railway Park, his local patch in the northwest of the city. When Dave took me to see the […]
After two weeks of lounging in the sun I’ve returned to sombre grey Britain and an to equally sombre and grey local patch. Sadly, we didn’t make 100 species for 2012 but ended up on 97 with the last addition to the list being the Woodcock that I flushed from the grassland in early December. […]
White-fronted Plover?? White-fronted Plover?? Male (below) and female Red Collared Dove Common Sandpiper Pied Asian Starling Collared Kingfisher Asian Openbill Stork Paddyfield Pipit A great holiday with some great birds. Read the full account of my birding in Chiang Mai in a forthcoming issue of Birdwatching Magazine. In the meantime, I’m back in grey and […]
Black-winged Stilt Whiskered Tern Marsh Sandpipers Black-tailed Godwit Little Egret Spoon-billed Sandpiper – fuzzy shot, I know! Red Collared Dove Broad-billed Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper
Red-wattled Lapwing Black-winged Stilt Pacific Golden Plover Little Egret Common Greenshank Little Ringed Plover Little Cormorant Wood Sandpiper
Thick-billed Warbler Brown Shrike in the mist Tree Sparrow Common Myna My last morning down at my adopted patch resulted in another lifer – this time a Thick-billed Warbler. I am sure that I glimpsed one yesterday, but today’s bird stood right out in the open churring away. Superficially, it looked like one of the […]
Barn Swallow Dropped into my Chiang Mai local patch this morning and effectively saw the birds that I saw yesterday. All was pretty quiet at first sight. I did enjoy prolonged views of a Dusky Warbler in a tree. This was a feat that was nigh on impossible yesterday when I spent the best part […]
Firstly, I would like to wish all the followers of this blog and anybody else not indulging in the pleasure in reading this entry a very special, very healthy and a prosperous (both in wealth and birds) 2013! For the last few days I have been experiencing the delights of Bangkok and latterly Chiang Mai. […]
Female Olive-backed Sunbird Spotted Dove Asian Palm Swift Oriental Magpie Robin Brown Shrike Yellow-browed Warbler More details to follow tomorrow……promise!
Asian Barred Owlet Chestnut-tailed Starling 1st winter Taiga Flycatcher Yellow-browed Warbler Asian Emerald Cuckoo Olive-backed Pipit Common Myna Ashy Wood Swallow Some of the delights that I have been ogling at since my arrival in this quite cool and arty city in northern Thailand. More tomorrow.
Asian Koel Asian Open-billed Stork Asian Brown Flycatcher Peaceful Dove Whiskered Tern Brown-headed Gull Little Egret Coppersmith Barbet female flycatcher sp I’ve run away. I’ve escaped the torrential London rain, grey skies and wind to migrate east to Thailand. Billed as a bit of rest and relaxation I will spend Christmas in Bangkok then on […]
The scene adjacent to the embankment area Shaved to the fence Looks pretty severe but it will grow back A bit of work is going to carried out at my beloved patch over the next few months largely designed to make the place more attractive to wildlife and the users of the area. The powers […]
Female Reed Bunting Since my last triumphant posting in which I trumpeted the fact that we had achieved the magical milestone of 95 for the year at The Scrubs, changes have occured. Three nights ago, a drunken Scrubber (a Wormwood Scrubs birder) was returning from his office Christmas party. He was a little worse for […]
Bohemian Waxwing (Will Webb) We are in the midst of a bird slowdown here at The Scrubs right now. This is a classic situation during the winter on my patch. The 100 species target for the year was looking like a bleak, distant and totally unrealistic proposition until we added three new birds over the past […]
Milan Ruzic – our brilliant and lovable Serbian guide More of those fantastic Long-eared Owls Corn Bunting Sparrowhawk I’m fresh back from an amazing tour of Serbia. As you may recall from yesterday’s entry, we saw loads of Long-eared Owls. Indeed, we probably ended our long weekend with upwards of 1,000 birds seen. To put […]
You lookin’ at me? Who are you? Where do you think you’re going? Not you again! A tiny portion of the Long-eared Owls that I saw today in Serbia TUB being interviewed by the Serbian media about the owl phenomenon in Kikinda I never though that I would live to see the day when 600 […]
TUB with the fabled Ruth Miller & Alan Davies of The Biggest Twitch fame The queue for my talk I woke up Sunday morning in a hotel room around six miles from WWT Martin Mere in Lancashire. For the second year running they had asked me to come and give a talk at their Birding […]
Winter male Stonechat It seemed almost strange to once again patrol the urban expanses of Wormwood Scrubs after swanning around on so much foreign soil over the last couple of weeks. But I was definitely home though because thr wind was howling and the rain was pouring the night before. I met up with a […]
A female Baglafecht Weaver It’s been a long time coming but I’ve finally managed to compile the list of birds that I managed to remember seeing in Nairobi. It’s such an amazing city for urban birding. With over 600 on its official list you can easily see over 200 species in a couple of days. […]