I completed almost no birding during these two months, and high workloads meant the birding year ground to a fast halt. A late afternoon patch visit on the 4th to the Minnis Bay/Shuart area, followed by an ad-hoc brief stop to visit my first ever local patch, Wrecclesham floods in Surrey, on the 11th was […]
Category: #Reculver10km
Posts about birds seen in a 10km radius of ‘Reculver Church’
October 2022: Monthly Summary
October patch birding became a lot more difficult as the days shortened and sunrise got later and later. Work pressures started to build too. The month started well on the 1st when I met up with John Young for a birthday related trip (his not mine) to Dungeness. Swallows passed by throughout the first part […]
September 2022: Monthly Summary
In September I managed to submit 33 eBird checklists, and additional ad-hoc eBird sightings/lists associated with the garden and other random places. Most were within the 10km patch, but a trip to Norfolk with birding friends Rik Addison and James Gilroy included additional variety. The month started with sea watching in strong north-east winds, which […]
August 2022: Monthly Summary
I couldn’t keep up the blogging in the last half of 2022, so in early 2023 I am writing a series of monthly summaries. I hope to do more regular updates in 2023. This approach does allow me to be more reflective, and little did I know in August that the first half of 2022 […]
July 2022: Monthly summary
July was very quiet. On the 2nd I returned to one of my former local patches in Surrey, Tices Meadow, for their BioBlitz. The highlight was five species of clearwing moth during a short, guided tour by Sean Foote. These are stunning animals, and it was the first time I had seen any clearwing species. […]
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