Gone Birding
Tales of a Derbyshire Birder!
A Derbyshire Birders Tales...
I have been a birdwatcher for well over 25 years and have done my fairshare of local patchwork and twitching in my time...I decided to set up this page to display some of the photo's and artwork that I do over the years, and to write about the stuff we do as we go birding in Derbyshire, around the UK and elsewhere.
Bird of the Moment!
Days of Eastern Promise.....
Eastern Crowned Warbler.
A first record for the UK of this far eastern Phyllosc species. Showing well in Trow Quarry alongside the coast at South Shields. This is also around only the 4th record for the Western Pal. Often in the same view as a Yellow-browed Warbler (which was chasing it off at times dispite being smaller!).
Video grab.
Red-flanked Bluetail.
A first winter trapped and rung at Spurn on the 18th October 2009.
This bird used to be an almost mythical vagrant to the UK but as the breeding population in NE Europe has expanded they have become more frequent in the last few years. I remember one of the first mainland twitchable ones in Dorset at Winspit Valley many years ago!
It is a bird I find fantastic and typifies the glamour of the autumn eastern vagrancy to the UK!
Eastern Crowned Warbler.
A first record for the UK of this far eastern Phyllosc species. Showing well in Trow Quarry alongside the coast at South Shields. This is also around only the 4th record for the Western Pal. Often in the same view as a Yellow-browed Warbler (which was chasing it off at times dispite being smaller!).
Video grab.
Red-flanked Bluetail.
A first winter trapped and rung at Spurn on the 18th October 2009.
This bird used to be an almost mythical vagrant to the UK but as the breeding population in NE Europe has expanded they have become more frequent in the last few years. I remember one of the first mainland twitchable ones in Dorset at Winspit Valley many years ago!
It is a bird I find fantastic and typifies the glamour of the autumn eastern vagrancy to the UK!
Other Stuff
I also have interests in many other forms of wildlife, including butterflies and moths (I moth trap in the garden and elsewhere), Dragonflies etc...actually most flora and fauna!
Wood Mouse
