Category Archives: November 2021

This morning I was co-leading a HOS walk with Adam. Before we met the group at 10am I walked to the hides to see what was around. My weather app said it was -1 but feeling like -5, definitely a five layer kind of morning. Walking into Venner hide I met up with Brian FContinue reading “Sunday 28th November 2021”

After a week away with Sarah and the dogs I was keen to get back down to the patch especially as Adam had seen a Snow Bunting on Warren Shore on the Thursday. On the way to the beach I heard a Dartford Warbler churring near Pullen Marsh and a Green Woodpecker flew up fromContinue reading “Monday 22nd November 2021”

A foggy and damp start with lots of young Blackbirds and Song Thrushes grounded. Also my first record this winter of a Fieldfare ‘shacking’ in the distance. There has been talk that Fieldfares have arrived late this year but my first last year was only 4 days earlier than this. From Gravelly Beach there wereContinue reading “Thursday 11th November 2021”

 I ran the moth traps again along Pullen Walk last night. There was an amazing variety in the Chestnut Moth with all four individuals looking very different to each other. I caught 17 individuals of 10 species including Calybites phasianipennella which I first caught in August and at the time was the first ever recordContinue reading “Tuesday 9th November 2021”