Red-flanked Bluetail – a good bird for your local patch (although I’d quite like to see the 500 Corn Buntings). Golden Eagle poisoning from Raptor Persecution Scotland. Was it a Squacco? It’s a birdie – a dead one.
Category: THE CARTOONS: by Ralph Underhill, Paul Thomas, Mr Carbo
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
January 2014 – very dry in NW Scotland – v wet everywhere else – Met Office. Dredging – would it have helped?
Two jokers and a serious view of the Somerset Levels
An account on Twitter (@PaulThomas992) has kept me smiling with its wry look at the Somerset Levels in recent days. Yes, it’s all very serious and I don’t have a flooded house… SOMERSET BIRD NEWS. Early signs that waterlogged Blue Tits and Hedge Sparrows are evolving Dipper-style preen glands SOMERSET LEVELS, latest sightings: Dead Harbour…
The week in birding by Jonnie Fisk
It’s been a bit quiet – and a bit wet – and a bit January.
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
The week in birding by Jonnie Fisk
Our Red-necked Phalaropes go to the Pacific and their loons come to Northern Ireland. Do you remember when getting BW Stilt for your year list just meant a walk down to the sea at Titchwell any day of the year? Kumlien’s Gull? Click here. Welsh for LB Dowitcher? Giach Gylfin-hir of course!
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
The week in birding – by Jonnie Fisk
You don’t know what a Stejneger’s Scoter might be? Neither did I – click here. I notice that a Lesser Whitethroat was seen in Northampton this week. Grey Phal at Hove – more here.
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
This week in birding by Jonnie Fisk
Did you see that story about the Red-necked Phalarope, tagged by the RSPB on Shetland, which wintered off Peru in the Pacific? Amazing! Aren’t birds brilliant? Here is an excellent account of identification of Buff-bellied Pipit. I wonder how long that diver will stay in Devon – I’ll be down there in the not-too-distant future.