by Dominic | Jan 20, 2018 | News
An exciting weekend for me. Today (Sunday) I have a feature in the Country Matters section of the Telegraph on learning bird song in January. And then, delighted to be part of the “Saturday” section of the...
by Dominic | Jan 12, 2018 | News
THE YEAR 2017 in review at Longham Lakes, Dorset This year has been fantastic in just about every aspect for this site, for birding and wildlife-watching generally. The total of 134 species of birds is a record, just, but it was the quality that stood out, and a nice...
by Dominic | Jan 2, 2018 | Longham Lakes, News
26th February A Long-tailed Tit was found dead in a garden adjoining Longham Lakes yesterday. The bird was ringed on-site by Roger Peart, with the following details: Ringed 13/08/2016 1900hrs, one of 8 LTTs ringed that evening. Two of those LTTs were re-trapped the...
by Dominic | Dec 17, 2017 | News
Totally delighted to have TWO books in the Guardian’s round-up of best nature books of the year: “Songs of Love and War” and “Britain’s Mammals”. Makes the hard work worthwhile. Britain’s Mammals is also ‘book of the month’ in...
by Dominic | Jul 2, 2017 | Nature Writing, News, Trip Reports
Here’s something a little different from your usual bird reports… I have taken my son Samuel up Snowdon a couple of times so, with the spring half term approaching this year, we decided it was time to launch on assault on the other peaks that make up the...
by Dominic | Apr 17, 2017 | News, Trip Reports
This year I was fortunate enough to take part in the annual Champions of the Flyway international Bird Race in Israel. 34 teams from around the world assembled to compete in a 24-hour Bird Race on Tuesday 28th March, seeing who could see and hear the most species in a...
