Gary T's Birding Blog

   These dates will soon, hopefully, be filled with my fantastic trip to North-East Brazil. I hope its worth the wait.......?    Then, ho...

Great White Egret    A return to Chew, to try and get some decent photos. We arrived at Herriotts channel to see the Egret feeding well ...

    Chew was worth a visit today, as it held some good birds.     From Woodford Lodge, while looking for the juvenile Great Northern Diver...

    Portland & Weymouth was the place today. A Dusky Warbler near the Hump, on Avalanche Road, was the main target.    First stop, as ...

    Cold, but sunny day, so the Pallid Harrier was the aim today, at Steart WWT. After a couple of hours there, we decided, sadly, a day or ...

Fly Agaric    Trip to Chew today. Not much happening I'm afraid. The only real thing of note, was the Fly Agaric were finally out, a...

   Well after all the excitement of yesterday, back to local birding today. So as i missed it before, went for the Pallid Harrier again at S...

  Right then after last weeks 'dip' day, another mega rare bird turns up, and again its on a Thursday!!!! But, its Cleveland.....bit...

   As i said earlier in the blog, no Scilly for me this year.....so when a Yellow-billed Cuckoo turned up at Porthgwarra, Cornwall, typicall...

     Wells Wood, and especially the 'Dell' was the first stop this morning. There were a few little flocks of Redwings there, and we...

   Another Norfolk weekend this weekend, as there had been a brilliant fall the weekend before, i hope some stick around this time.............

   After 2 days of a Bonxie (Great Skua), being seen at Chew, i gave up and went....as i had not seen one at Chew before, it seemed i should...

   As not going to Scilly this October, due to knee op cock-up by the NHS, what to do to find migrants....oh well Portland's not a bad p...

    Right then, lets try again......     Back to Kilnsea, and the Masked Shrike had moved again, but again only one more field. It was in ...

   So, after waiting all week, i finally drove to Spurn, East Yorkshire, or to be a bit more exact....Kilnsea. A Masked Shrike had been ther...