Month: May 2019
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28th May 2019 -Stapleton, Bristol
We are very pleased to see that at least one of the blue tit chicks in our garden has fledged. We put up a nest box last year, more in hope than anything as our garden is so tiny we couldn’t really see a suitable spot which would afford birds plenty of cover. However, on…
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25th May 2019 – RSPB Ham Wall
As my wife Wendy was doing a sewing workshop in Somerset I went a little further in to the county and spent the day at one of my favourite bird reserves at RSPB Ham Wall on the Somerset levels. My time was very much taken up watching just 4 species of bird: Great Spotted Woodpecker,…
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19th May 2019 – Mottisfont
Sldeshow of the gardens at Mottisfont We broke our journey back home from the New Forest by stopping at Mottisfont, a romantic house and gallery set in beautiful riverside gardens in the Test Valley in Hampshire, which is run by the National Trust. We didn’t have time to visit the 18th-century house with its 20th-century…
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17th May 2019 – RSPB Arne, Dorset
RSPB Arne situated on Poole Harbour on the south coast of England is one of the few places where all six of the UK’s native reptiles can be found but today it seemed much too cold to look for reptiles (both for us and them). However, we enjoyed the walks on the heathland and in…
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15th May 2019 – The Savill Garden, Windsor Great Park
With a group of “senior” members from the Old Colstonian Society (the association of the alumni of Colston’s School in Bristol, UK) we visited The Savill Garden, an amazing garden in Windsor Great Park near London which describes itself as Britain’s finest ornamental garden. Windsor Great Park with Windsor Castle in the background The start of…
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12th May 2019 – St Ives, Cornwall
Well I know it’s not the most obvious of bird blogs but I felt I had to publish the “nature” photos of this morning’s visit to The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St Ives which was truly memorable. I hope my photos do it some justice. A few of my favourites:
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11th May 2019 – Cornwall
Another beautiful day in Cornwall with sunshine and blue skies all day; however, the wind was a little fresh and so not a T-shirt and shorts day, although a lot of people had not worked that out. In the morning we walked along the coastal path by the Godrevy Lighthouse and had good…
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9th May 2019 – Cornwall
It was a bright and breezy day in Cornwall. We spent most of the day on The Lizard Peninsula; firstly at Kynance Cove and then at Lizard Point (the most southerly point in England). There were lots of small birds around, the most common of which were stonechats. The spring flowers were quite amazing and…
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8th May 2019 – Cornwall
The 200 mile journey through Somerset, Devon and Cornwall to St Ives, where we are spending a short holiday, passes through some beautiful lush countryside and wasn’t particularly spoilt by the regular periods of torrential rain that we encountered en route. Having seen the weather forecast we didn’t really expect to have much…
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7th May 2019 – Eastville Park and Snuff Mills
As the birds become more difficult to see the butterflies begin to appear in good numbers; in the park this morning there were plenty to see. The only birds I managed to photograph were grey wagtails, a robin, a grey heron (skulking underneath the road bridge) and the first ducklings I have seen in Eastville…
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