Sarah had taken her Mum up to Minehead to visit Di for a few days and she was due back mid afternoon on Friday. I had been minding the house and the dogs and catching up with painting a few of my field sketches. At 11.40am a message came through the Hampshire Rarities WhatsApp Group […]
I also managed to find a pair of Little Ringed Plover on the southern edge of Fishtail Lagoon. The white crown band, yellow eye ring and all dark bill separate them from the commoner Ringed […]
My interest in birding has recently increased and I wondered about enhancing this interest by buying a specialist lens to photograph them or whether I should get back into sketching them after a 15 year […]
Having delayed travelling for the Audouin’s Gull and subsequently getting to Dungeness a day too late and then a month later not going for the Black Lark on Anglesey I was due a successful twitch. […]
A pair of Black-winged Stilts were found in Hampshire at Pennington Marshes. The last successful breeding attempt of this species in the UK was in Norfolk in 1987. On the Saturday morning I headed down […]
