A Memorable Encounter Down Under

This post comes from Sydney, Australia, where I am attending my niece's wedding. Why a communication from here? Well, it happens that I have had an encounter with a particularly special bird, one that is featured in two of my books: 100 Birds to See Before You Die and...

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One Show now on Wednesday

Just a quick update for Birdwords followers: My appearance on the One Show is now this WEDNESDAY at 7pm, BBC1. They have changed it at the last minute! Sorry if you read this having already tried to watch. The Scottish trip is over now. We had great views of Golden...

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The One Show

This post is just to let you know that I will be on the One Show this coming Monday. It's an insert filmed in July, when George McGavin and I were looking for moths from a boat. BBC1 7pm Wednesday 9th November. Have a look and tell me what you think!

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Late autumn rarity

A Black Tern showed up on Longham Lakes this morning, showing superbly on Longham Reservoir North among the Black-headed Gulls. Paul Wilkins got this awesome picture: It's a very late migrant, and the still obvious neck ring and scalloping on the wings shows that it...

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New on this website

If you're a local birder (to Dorset), you might be interested to keep in touch with the Longham Lakes Blog. I have also been laboriously filling in details of all bird records from Longham Lakes - click on Bird Records Totals and you will see about 50 species...

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Goldfinches Galore

Tuesday 18th October. Chris Parnell: not much visible migration today, but there was a large flock of Goldfinches (I’d say 80+) and 2 Siskins. Also Treecreeper and the Whinchat still present. On a quick count 46 species in total

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Return of the Prodigal

Monday 17th September There was some light visible migration over Longham this morning 09.00-09.50, with totals as follows: Siskin 5, Lesser Redpoll 2 (south), Chaffinch 5 (south), Greenfinch 11 (south), Goldfinch 30 (mainly south), Linnet 17 (south), Pied/White...

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Chat-trick

Saturday 15th October 2011 Chris Parnell's records today: one superb Whinchat, 1 Wheatear, 4 Stonechat the highlights today, plus 24 Wigeon, 2 Teal , and smaller numbers of Shoveler and Pochard. I think this is the first time that 3 chat species (Stonechat, Whinchat...

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