hunt's birds: blogs

Back on the Peninsula - A bit of local twitching today with two new local lifers , the Black-necked Grebe that has finally been pinned down onto Pagham Lagoon and a Snow Bunting w...

CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT 2025 IS COMING! HERE'S HOW TO PARTICIPATE - I did a recent scouting trip for my CBC (Christmas Bird Count), which takes place for me on December 29th (other areas of the country have counts on d...

New Titles - 1) Best, Troy L. and John L. Hunt. *Mammals of the Southwestern United States: Biology of Native and Some Extirpated, Extinct, and Introduced Species....

Cold spells - I once read how regular weather patterns can be. On a broad scale for example, here we get cold northerlies from April to May and mild southerlies in Se...

Estonia and Latvia, October 2025 - White-tailed Eagle, Estonia Long-tailed Ducks, Estonia Grey Seals and Mute Swans, Estonia Long-tailed Tits, Puise, Estonia Tree Sparrows, Puise, Estonia...

Bearded Tits at Alkborough Flats -

15th-20th March 2024 – Estonia - An International Tour organised in conjunction with our friends at Oriole Birding. A short trip, looking for woodpeckers and owls, and timed to catch the w...

30th April 2023: Canons Farm - Paul Goodman - Red Kite 1 Common Buzzard 5 Kestrel 1 Peregrine 1 feral Rock Dove 2 Woodpigeon P Rose-ringed Parakeet P Green Woodpecker 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker ...

How to Keep Blackbirds Away - Introduction A backyard crammed with a bird song can be enticing and calming. Nevertheless, a yard crammed with hundreds of blackbirds can be disturbing....

Mid-February to Mid-March - For me, the period from mid-February to mid-March has always felt a bit of a damp squib the renewed vigour of New Year has started to wane but spring ...

South Bay Winter Slumber - *While Santa Clara is not known as one of the premiere gulling counties in the state, that is not because there are a lack of gulls. There are many thou...

A beach discovery provides more than just a ringing recovery - Owen Williams writes: I can clearly remember the day I made my first ever retrap: it was 1 March 2008 and I was nearing the end of my training for a Woodco...

BIRDS IN FLIGHT - SPRING EDITION with Tom Reed - April 6 - A NEW and exciting School of Birding Workshop - perfect for birders of all levels, from beginners to experienced. Cape May is synonymous with migration and...

London's raptor success story - Juvenile Peregrine Falcon at Rainham today. Over the years, birds of prey have got a pretty raw deal in Britain, from pesticides in the Sixties to persecut...

Krausman's Woodcarving Studio 2016 Costa Rica "Pura Vida" Birdcarving Extravaganza!! - *Pam and Jim Krausman's Woodcarving Studio's 25th Anniversary-* * Costa ...

A SIBERIAN ACCENTOR irruption into Europe sees UK's first records - Autumn 2016 - the Year of the SIBERIAN ACCENTOR irruption When news of a Siberian Accentor trapped & ringed on Utsira (Norway) on 6th August 2011 hit the h...

Painted Turtle Update! - Although Kenn and I were away from home and missed it, two more baby turtles hatched! And while our hearts might be a teensy bit sad to have missed it, we...

Undiscovered Owls - A Sound Approach Guide (Magnus Robb & The Sound Approach) - *Undiscovered Owls - A Sound Approach Guide* For once, I'm not on the pulse of modern day publishing as this book was originally launched a year ago. Inde...

Diary of the rooftop birders: 25.09.2014 - Not the best day ever but the most productive of autumn 2014 so far. On the roof by about 10.15am. Just two of us. Myself and Linsay Stronge. The weathe...

Vagrants, Before Birding - Everyone knows Audubon's paintings of extinct birds - the Carolina Parakeet, Great Auk, Passenger Pigeon, Eskimo Curlew, and Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Howe...

Gooseberry Island, Northbound, 2014 - *Gooseberry Island Northbound 2014 Migration* NOTE: NEWEST ADDITIONS ARE POSTED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE! Most bird shots are in the latter half of this p...