Am still keen to hear from more patch birders, particularly those from less well represented groups e.g. female, age <40 etc. Am also looking for people fairly new to patch birding. If you're interested, get in touch either via DM or through the contact form on the website.

Golden Oriole (oriolus oriolus) as an urban Peregrine prey. Never seen one before in this area. Ed Drewitt #AntwerpPeregrines

It takes a whole universe to make one small black bird. ONE MIDSUMMER'S DAY by 'one of our greatest living naturalists' (Spectator) Mark Cocker is out today in paperback!

Gulls I think - large white hyperborean types (herring and g b b gull) that were until the mid C20th unfamiliar inland even to naturalists like Gilbert White and John Clare.

This evening…. now the nights are drawing in:

Still great Greg Poole: instagram.com/p/C8fbw6vqbxa/…

. The Embarrassing Party   Her friends are astounded. The magician makes the small girl lay an egg. It’s not even her party. .

The great Tim Dee says: “What might still flow through these damned-up and dried-out days of ours? Fountain Creek is lovingly navigated and tenderly told by O’Donnell and becomes a baptismal stream for the Anthropocene. This book swims.” PREORDER NOW: torreyhouse.org/fountain-creek

I haven’t stopped thinking about this poem since I read it a few days ago in The Poetry Review The Poetry Society. A wonder.

This extraordinary drama unfolded 15 minutes from the house. My Guardian diary on hobbies, on oak eggars, on miracles - free range and locally sourced. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

. YOU DON'T SEE DITCHES MUCH THESE DAYS do you .

My London Review of Books podcast about returning to Bouillon: lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-v…

Count Binscape and his pals:

Back to the wet flats - 51 little egrets on Burwell Fen and 250 autumnal lapwings… one croak from a reed warbler and a bitter shandy to wet my lips.

This popped up: I love this bird.

My thanks to any fan and especially Gill:

'Neon ping pong...Parakeets are quicker than thought and louder than bombs. Ad hoc, de-mobbed. Scalextric scooters. Postmodern morphs. Bourgeois bondage revolutionaries...' Throughout 2024, Tim Dee held daily meetings with a noisy green alien species buff.ly/41TO7Cq

SCATTERING caughtbytheriver.net/2025/02/scatte…

Man scatters his dad’s ashes - tonight: