Dartford Waffler

A breezy walk to Eske/Pulfin Fen was the first for a while due to the fact that I’ve been feeling pretty rough recently. Still with a fuzzy head I marched up to the lake, flushing a male Yellowhammer from underneath a bush with a few Skylarks in song.
At the lake still a lot of ducks; […]

Enough sunshine today to tempt me outside, just the short distance to Figham Common. Walking along the river flood defenses I could see that many of the fields to the east were flooded by a few centimetres of water. I expected to see some birds feeding on these such was the extent of the flooding […]

Just got back from a couple of hours walking around Swinemoor Common, Beverley. It wasn’t really a birdwatching walk, I was with three friends from college and we were inspecting the place for our management plan assignment. We came up with ideas like retaining the surface water through spring and summer, and grazing the grassland […]

Yesterday morning I went, once again, to Eske/Pulfin Fen. It was very bright, but a light northerly breeze was pretty chilly. The walk was a tale of two halves really, with the first half (the walk up) being virtually birdless, almost no ducks on the lake and only two Fieldfares were of any interest. Beyond […]

Most birdwatchers would like to help birds, but many people don’t go beyond feeding them in their back garden. Garden bird feeding is great, by the way, but for serious bird lovers there are lots of things that can be done to help birds.People who have gardens have a great resource that they can manage […]

Yesterday’s news of a bird flu “outbreak” at a Turkey farm stimulated the normal hysteria that surrounds this subject, with at least one “expert” proclaiming on TV that this was most likely the result of wild birds introducing the virus into the farm. I guess nobody has to take the blame for wild birds, whereas […]

What a strange day. It must have been very cold overnight because even at eleven o’clock on a very sunny day, the water covering Swinemoor common was still frozen. At this time though my jacket, sweatshirt and t-shirt meant that I was overdressed for the sunny weather and it wasn’t long before I was hot! […]

So, having created this blog I’ve rather neglected it over the past week or so. The thing is that every time I go out, I just see the same birds. Not only does this become a little tedious, but I’m sure it doesn’t make good reading. I have actually been out over the last week, […]