hunt's birds: blogs

6th Sept 2026 – Autumn Weekend, Day 2 - Day 2 of an Autumn Weekend tour. Grey cloud and a couple of light rain showers first thing quickly cleared through. The rest of the day was bright and su...

Back to Patch - I got back from Spain late Saturday night and spent yesterday, Sunday. catching up. With a south east breeze and sunny conditions it was perfect raptor mig...

Wryneck at Freiston Shore RSPB, Part 1 -

Moth weather... - As we enter the now annual period of SW winds from September to mid November, it is more suiting to moth trapping than seeing migrant birds. What happen...

New Titles - 1) McGhie, Henry A. (Editor). *Nineteenth–Century Ornithology (Two Volumes).* 2026. Routledge. Hardbound: volume one: 388 pages, volume two: 515 pages...

Best Beginner Birding Binoculars in 2026: A Naturalist's Honest Field Guide - Choosing your first pair of birding binoculars shouldn't feel like decoding a spec sheet.

Little Blue Heron, Rare inland in MA! - Saw this Little Blue Heron at Horn Pond birding site inland in MA. Very unusual for this site and it thrilled all the birders who saw it. Little Blues a...

- * **Draft*** * Friday, August 22, 2026- At Sea headed to Dover, England, UK...

Bearded Tits at Alkborough Flats -

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 ...

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...

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 ...