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Tag: Great Crested Grebe

Good News and Bad News

June 20, 2019December 23, 2019 Brian Rafferty Leave a comment

First the bad news, currently the weather is very unsettled with plenty of rain and very cold for June. This recent bad weather brought disaster to the local nesting great crested grebes. They had constructed their nest and were incubating three eggs as previously reported. A subsequent visit found no sign of nest or eggs. […]

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Great Crested Grebes

May 18, 2019December 23, 2019 Brian Rafferty Leave a comment

I think I have taken more images of Great Crested Grebes over the years than any other bird. Now that I am able to get about more I have been able to visit locations where I have previously enjoyed looking at and photographing grebes. It is that time of the year when they perform their […]

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Back in Action

May 8, 2019December 23, 2019 Brian Rafferty Leave a comment

It has been four months since I last published a blog. I have been out of action following further hip surgery. I am now bionic having had two new hips since July 2018!! I am making a good recovery and am now able to drive again. This has meant that at long last I have […]

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Snow Buntings

April 20, 2019December 23, 2019 Simon Rix Leave a comment

No noticeable change in the bird life today although I did enjoy 3 Snow Buntings on one of the last snow decked fields in Maridalen but these could well have been around for a while. There was less wind today which I hoped would produce some raptor movement but I hoped in vain.    

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Pennington Marsh – 29th February

April 15, 2019December 23, 2019 Simon Colenutt Leave a comment

On a beautiful spring like morning, I dropped Tobias off for his last day at school before the Easter holidays and spent a couple of hours at Pennington Marsh. At the corner of Lower Pennington Lane I had a coffee and watched the Lapwing displaying and listened to the Sky Lark but other than small […]

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Balearics at Dungeness and a Bonaparte’s at Oare

August 30, 2018December 23, 2019 Brian Anderson Leave a comment

Birding has been very limited of late save a quick trip to Fairlop in the the week to catch the local Hoopoe so today we decided on a trip to Dunge for a spot of early morning sea watching. Arriving at 6.30am we were rewarded for a two hour stint with several Arctic Skua, three […]

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Uncovered: the secret sex life of birds

Uncovered: the secret sex life of birds

February 28, 2018February 18, 2021 Supertrooper 2 Comments

For years, people assumed most birds were monogamous. This idyllic image was blown apart when research revealed lifestyles of polygamy, polyandry, marathon mating sessions and sperm competition. Welcome to the secret reproductive life of birds. Shocked? Blame it on natural selection. In the late 1960s, it was generally assumed that the vast majority of birds […]

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Oslo in a nutshell

April 5, 2017December 23, 2019 Simon Rix Leave a comment

I took in quite a few of Oslo’s best localities today in chilly temperatures but without the rain that was forecast and with few new birds. Maridalen had 3 Lapwings in the morning but 6 by the afternoon which were stood on the ice – hopefully these (and more to come) will breed in the […]

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