JAMES • Laid Dressed me up in women's clothes Messed around with gender roles US TV performance from 1994 with some typically energetic Tim Booth dancing. Excellent stuff. #james #timbooth

Great little blog on this really decent bit of kit.

Angry Grey Heron over my road today

How I spent 7 ‘nights’ in Iceland in June. 23hr birding… awesome place

Wild Boar on the edge of Dartmoor 9th Oct 2024

Love a walk around a graveyard. Collaton St Mary church highlights were 4 fighting Firecrest, 5 Goldcrest, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Pied Wagtail, 1 Buzzard and a Sparrowhawk

Flyover Hawfinch calling this morning at Berry Head with Bill Macdonald Mike Langman got it seconds later over the quarry. Pleased to see it at that location. Interesting to hear it give a flight call,I’ve never heard before as opposed to the tick call I have experience with.

Colour-ringed Oystercatcher I saw on Preston Seafront, Paignton on 06/10/2024 was ringed as a chick by the Iceland wader colour ringing project @icelandwader 07/06/2022 in SW Iceland

OTD 2022 Bill Macdonald Trevor Knott

Belated news; Barau´s Petrel, Pterodroma baraui photographed at Cap Ferret by Guillaume Rey on 10th October 2024, confirmed from photos by Bob Flood and Hadoram Shirihai - the 1st record for France and Western Palearctic - More photos - faune-france.org/index.php?m_id…

45 mins was all I could manage at the ‘seawatching lounge’ Shoalstone, Brixham this morning 🥶.Arctic Skua coming out of the bay really close to the breakwater and then past the shelter was the best bird. kittiwakes were passing over the pool.2 Common Scoter close with 4 🟪Sands

Shoalstone Shelter 0900-1100 Best birds were 4 Sooty Shearwaters 1st bird through at 0930 then 3 more in close succession from 1020 (expertly picked out by the newly arrived Alistair King - a new bird for him!). Also 2 GND pretty quiet though between these spells

Nice hour at Passage House Inn, Newton Abbot. 19 Avocet, 5 RB Merganser, 5 Little Grebe, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Kingfisher, 2 Curlew, 4 Redshank amongst others

If Wilson's Bird of Paradise is on your wish list for 2025, then get in touch as we have just 1 place left on our small group of 6 BoP Adventure to West Papua in September!

Me and my boy in the park. Very lucky to have two healthy kids. I appreciate the Ultras who pay their subs and let me feed and clothe these kids doing this for a living❤️ PS - Imagine a ‘pundit’ threatening to sue me in the civil court for harrassment I’ll give you one guess who

A real Devon rarity nowadays - a Turtle Dove in a private field off Bridge Road,Churston near Brixham - found earlier by Josh M and still present 235pm when flew up out of field and landed in a bush out of sight- viewed from gateway from road