Birding, Birds

A confusion of wagtails

December 20, 2024 by David T 1 Comment
Few birds are as confusingly named as the three species of wagtails we see regularly in Britain. The best-named is the Pied Wagtail, the...
Birding

Birds in a landscape

December 13, 2024 by David T 3 Comments
I’m really a birdwatcher, not a bird photographer, though these days I usually carry a camera. I do so for a variety of reasons,...
Birding

The Double Century

December 6, 2024 by David T 2 Comments
Made it with 30 days to spare: on 1 December I notched up my 200th species of the year in the UK, a handsome...
Birds, Mammals

A question of style

November 29, 2024 by David T 4 Comments
I was first introduced to what is generally called house style many years ago, when I started work as a lowly editorial assistant on...
Birding, Birds

Tales from the river bank

November 22, 2024 by David T 1 Comment
Many years ago I was a motoring correspondent. It was much easier, and a lot more fun, to write about Porsches rather than Peugeots,...
Birding

Here comes the sun

November 15, 2024 by David T 1 Comment
Ten days without a glimpse of the sun is a depressing experience, but that’s what we experienced here in England for the first 10...
Birding, Birds

Garden Birding II

November 8, 2024 by David T 2 Comments
Last week I wrote about the birds that fly over my Suffolk garden (in eastern England), this time it’s the turn of the real...
Birding

Garden Birding – I

November 1, 2024 by David T 3 Comments
As we all know, birdwatchers love making lists. Here in the UK patch-listing is popular. A patch is usually somewhere not too far from...
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