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Tag Archives: Rainham Marshes
Summer Additions
After returning from Norfolk with a healthy-looking yearlist it was time for the usual lull as spring calmed down and summer took hold. I had a few ideas of species we could look for during this time, with specific plans … Continue reading
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Tagged ashdown forest, bat, Birdfair, black tern, Cliffe Pools, cuckoo, daubentons bat, fishers green, Hobby, Lee Valley, lesser whitethroat, nathusius's pipistrelle, natterer's bat, nightingale, nightjar, Osprey, Pied Flycatcher, pipistrelle, Rainham Marshes, red-backed shrike, soprano pipistrelle, spotted flycatcher, staines reservoir, Stone-curlew, tawny owl, Walthamstow Marshes, Walthamstow Reservoirs, Wanstead Flats, weeting heath, whinchat, woodcock
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Spring Additions
After a great time in Scotland the next day out was a damp Saturday where we headed over to Wimbledon Common in the hope of finding the Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers that had been there, but to no avail. Plenty of … Continue reading
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Tagged ashdown forest, Black-necked Grebe, brambling, Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff, common sandpiper, Common Tern, Garden Warbler, Hobby, House Martin, lesser whitethroat, Little Ringed Plover, Rainham Marshes, red kite, redstart, Reed Warbler, Sand Martin, Sedge Warbler, short-eared owl, skylark, staines moor, staines reservoir, Swarovski, swift, Tree Pipit, Walthamstow, Walthamstow Reservoirs, walthamstow wetlands, Wanstead Flats, Wheatear, whitethroat, Willow Warbler, woodlark
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Back in the Game…
The relative failure of last year’s home birding meant I was pretty upset that I’d only managed to get 163 species onto my UK yearlist. My target every year is to at least beat my worst ever total – that … Continue reading
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Tagged #my200birdyear, Amwell, avocet, birds, Birdwatching, bittern, box hill, Bramfield, Brent Goose, Bullfinch, connaught water, Dartford Warbler, Dunlin, eagle pond, epping forest, Essex, fairlop, Goldcrest, goldeneye, goosander, green sandpiper, Grey Partridge, Hertfordshire, horned lark, jack snipe, lesser redpoll, little bunting, Little Egret, Little Owl, london, London Wetland Centre, marsh tit, newlands corner, ornithology, peregrine, photography, Rainham Marshes, regents park, Sanderling, serin, shoeburyness, Shorelark, Smew, snaresbrook, staines reservoir, Stonechat, Surrey, thursley common, Turnstone, two tree island, Walthamstow, Walthamstow Reservoirs, walthamstow wetlands, water rail, woking
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Spring Update
Spring has been very rewarding this year. After we returned from Wales the birds started to arrive, and we’ve even got ourselves a life tick – and one from this year’s list of five targets, no less. Firstly, it was … Continue reading
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Tagged Arctic Tern, Birding, birds, Blackcap, Bramfield, buzzard, Chiffchaff, claybury, common sandpiper, Common Tern, common whitethroat, fairlop, Fox, garganey, Green Woodpecker, Hobby, lesser whitethroat, little gull, Little Ringed Plover, lockwood reservoir, Marsh Harrier, ornithology, owls, peregrine, photo, photography, Pied Flycatcher, Rainham Marshes, red fox, red-crested pochard, Redshank, redstart, Reed Bunting, Reed Warbler, regents park, RSPB, russia dock, Sanderling, Sedge Warbler, short-eared owl, Sparrowhawk, staines moor, stave hill, Stock Dove, stocker's lake, Stonechat, tottenham, tottenham marshes, Waders, Walthamstow Reservoirs, Wheatear, whitethroat, Willow Warbler, Wren
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Review of the Year – 2015
2014 hadn’t been a great birding year for me, certainly as far as seeing new species goes, with only twelve species being added to the lifelist, and many of our trips were affected by either bad weather or illness. Before … Continue reading
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Tagged Amwell, bird, Birdfinders, birds of prey, Bramfield, bunting, cairngorms, Dungeness, Eagles, Fairlop Waters, falcons, Finland, Finnature, greece, Harriers, hawfinch, heatherlea, kuusamo, lesbos, lesvos, london, ornithology, Oulu, owls, Rainham Marshes, raptors, RSPB Rye Meads, scotland, shrikes, Smew, staines moor, thursley common, Waders, Wallasea Island, Warbler, woodpeckers
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Owls. Owls Everywhere…
We’ve had a very mild autumn so far, and after the passing-through of the Redstarts, Whinchats, Wrynecks, etc, the next step has been the influx of species that might want to hang around for the winter. The first day out … Continue reading
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Tagged Birding, birds, Black-necked Grebe, Curlew, Golden Plover, goosander, kestrel, owls, Pintail, Rainham Marshes, Redshank, RSPB, short-eared owl, Snipe, Stonechat, Walthamstow Reservoirs
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Spring and Summer Catchup
In between holidays we’ve done a reasonable amount of local birding, but I’m only going to go through the not-necessarily-chronological highlights, rather than spend loads of time trying to remember everything… It started with a day out at Bramfield before … Continue reading
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Tagged bearded tit, Birding, Bramfield, Common Tern, Goldfinch, Hertfordshire, kensington gardens, kestrel, Kingfisher, Lapwing, lesser black-backed gull, Little Owl, London Wetland Centre, long-tailed tit, Meadow Pipit, Rainham Marshes, Redshank, Reed Warbler, RSPB, Rye Meads, Sedge Warbler, staines moor, Walthamstow Reservoirs, whitethroat, WWT
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