Tag: Birdwatch
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Birdwatch, HART Wildlife Rescue and other wildlife notes and news
At HART yesterday morning I was once again in the Isolation Room (is someone trying to tell me something?) then washing up in utility – a process also governed by strict protocols. I have been watching Joanna Page’s series about her experiences volunteering at Wildlife Aid and finding it quite relaxing. Her reactions to various…
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Birdwatch November 2024
When I said to one of the tour leaders on my trip to Norfolk that the egret was my favourite bird, he asked which one. I said I really didn’t mind – Great, Little or Cattle. They share an extraordinary elegance. I should have known it wouldn’t be as simple as that. There are both…
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Birdwatch September 2024
The recovery of the Peregrine Falcon, a species which faced extinction in the UK in the 1950s (pesticides and illegal persecution of course), is welcomed – there are now 1,402 pairs, 62 of them thriving on man-made structures. There is much excitement about rare seabird sightings tempered with a concern that climate change is probably…
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Birdwatch August 2024
This beautiful Collared Dove enjoyed a drink with perfect timing, just as I finished writing this post and was wondering what to use as the headline image. I recently wrote that I tend to avoid blogging about birds in other parts of the world because it stretched the limits of what my brain could absorb.…