Over the last nine days I’ve completed four sea watching sessions, done a bit of weekend volunteering and purchased (physical and digital) few new books. To follow are some updates on them all. Seawatch sessions took place on 16th, 17th,
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Weekly Round-Up – 24/09/23
Useful Websites – 01/09/23
You’ll be pleased to know that although this blog is all about me, it certainly won’t be all about me! I’m absolutely passionate about spreading knowledge and information and in this section I am going to post links to specific
Read moreAmerican Beauty – 17/09/23
This is my first blog that deal with WeBS Surveys so let me set the scene. Once a month, on a Sunday coincident with a high tide during daylight hours (usually between 10am and 2pm), The British Trust for Ornithology
Read moreWood Pecca (North Yorkshire Style) – 03/09/23
It’s a place I first visited with my parents back in the late 1970’s an have probably been at least 25 times in the intervening forty years. It had however been quite a while since my last visit to Ingleton
Read moreDetails, Mere Details – 12/09/23
I’ve grown up and lived close to Marton Mere in Blackpool all of my life, and as a resident of an urban environment, I have always loved its apparent wildness and tranquillity, particularly when you consider that it sits just
Read moreThe Mosquito Coast – 10/09/23
Something a little different on Sunday when a few members of Fylde Bird Club teamed up with members of the Lytham & District Wildfowlers Association (LDWA) and a good number of Scouts from the 2nd Freckleton Scout Group, to carry
Read moreStanding Room Only – 10/09/23
And so it began on this fine Sunday morning, with today thankfully being yesterdays tomorrow. Gone was the fog, and whilst not crystal clear, visibility for todays seawatch was at least 4000m and the sea was calm, mill-pond calm; for
Read moreGroundfog Day – 09/09/23
It had been a really quiet week weather wise, with high-pressure locked in over the UK and the lack of wind, slight northerly / north-easterly breeze, coupled with high humidity, led to a week of poor visibility, sea-mist and fog.
Read moreSeawatch – 03/09/2023
It’s never great when you wake up before dawn and the streetlights are giving that eery glow – it can only mean one thing in these parts, FOG!Weather very rarely causes an abandonment, but there is very little you can
Read moreIs this thing on? – 01/09/23
After almost 30 years of talking about writing something and putting my notes down in a more formal way, I’ve finally been convinced to start a blog – If I’m honest it didn’t take much arm twisting. The central theme
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