hunt's birds: blogs

A trip to Frampton Marsh - www.grahamcatley.com/blog-1/another-day-at-frampton-marsh-dangerously-becoming-a-habit Link above to my latest blog post on a visit to Frampton this wee...

Steppe Gull write up in Dutch Birding - Nice to see our short note in Dutch Birding this month about the Steppe Gull flock we discovered in Azerbaijan last year; the first fully documented reco...

Roe buck, Deeping Lakes LWT -

Industrial Oyks and the (Not so) Secret Wood. - This post is another all-over-the-shop cornucopia of wildlife sightings locally. Lesser Redpolls. In April I like to keep an even closer eye on my bird ...

Much of the East Under Severe Weather Threat. - "Severe" (fill in the blank; tornadoes, snow, wind, sleet, rain, flooding) seems to be the new norm as much of the eastern part of the country is under w...

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...

New Titles - 1) Urfi, Abdul Jamil. *The Painted Stork.* 2024. Pelagic Publishing. Paperback: 191 pages. Price: $36.00 U.S. PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY: A charismatic and a...

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 ...

Look To My Coming At First Light On The Fifth Day - *A female Allen's Hummingbird shares a feeder with a male Anna's. With new friends like these, I have embarked on a brave new Geri Birding voyage. Photog...

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....

From Kenn's Studio: Red-headed Barbet - From Kenn's Studio: Red-headed Barbet / Torito Cabecirrojo (Eubucco bourcierii), female - watercolor on Arches paper. Like many birds, Red-headed Barbet ...

What makes for a long life? - Rob Robinson writes: I am sometimes asked the question: “How long do birds live?” The answer is, as to many good questions, “It depends”. The oldest known ...

Migration Blog has moved. - The migration blog has a new home, head over to https://www.bto.org/community/bto-blog to check out what species are on the move and where best to find them.

2019 SCHOOL OF BIRDING Workshops - Here they are!!! - There are few places in the world that can equal or surpass the birding phenomenon at Cape May. Likewise, our Cape May School of Birding is unequaled for i...

Successful South-East circumnavigation - Juvenile Baird's Sandpiper at Cuckmere Haven. Today I did a dawn-to-dusk, 260-mile birding loop of Kent and East Sussex, logging 97 species in the process....

Another legendary birder bows out - Norfolk Ornithologist PETER CLARKE - Peter Clarke lived for Holme Bird Observatory in North Norfolk - it's birds, mammals & butterflies filled his life of that environ for the best part of 50 ...

Krausman's Woodcarving Studio 2016 Costa Rica "Pura Vida" Birdcarving Extravaganza!! - * Week Two Continues, Day 15, Last Day, Thursday, Oct 13, 2016, Alejuala.........*Hard to believe that today is the last day in Costa Rica! Its be...

Champions of The Flyway 2016 - On March 29th I was involved in this year's Champions of The Flyway bird race held in Southern Israel. The whole idea was to raise money towards stopping ...

An Apology To Oregon - Dear Oregon, About a year ago, in the second-most successful post in this blog's short history, I outlined a Birder's Map of America. I thought it was pret...

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...

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...