hunt's birds: blogs

Yellow-browed Warbler (number 2?) Ferry meadows CP, Peterborough -

A week at home - I'm off to Bulgaria tomorrow for a week on the project there, mainly to complete the wildlife pond but also to do a bit of autumn birding too. It's been ...

East Anglia Holidays - *Salthouse, Norfolk.... * On 21st Sept we headed off to Norfolk for the first leg of our two week holiday to the not so far east. It is 12 years si...

- This is the last Part to this mini-blog......... North Atlantic (S. m. borealis) Common Eiders. The winter months are the time I enjoy the...

WONDERFUL REVIEW FROM AUDUBON: THE STOKES GUIDE TO FINCHES OF THE UNITED STATES & CANADA - Wonderful review from the National Audubon Society By Chad Witko of The Stokes Guide to Finches of the United States and Canada Buy Now, HERE "Beloved ...

New Titles - 1) Stokes, Lillian Q. and Matthew A. Young. *The Stokes Guide to Finches of the United States and Canada.* 2024. Little, Brown and Company. Paperba...

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 ...

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 ...

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...