Fraser's Birding Blog

Thursday, October 20, 2016

Siberian Dream

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Sunday 9 October and news came in of a Siberian Accentor ( Prunella montanella )  on Shetland – the first record for Britain. This is not a...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Birding trip report from Cádiz province, Spain

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I've uploaded a trip report from Spain in April.  www.fssbirding.org.uk/costadelaluz2016trip.htm This was another university field c...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Rainham Marshes Patch Listing 2016 March

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March, the transition between winter and spring…..depending on the weather. March saw just four additions to bring my personal total to 107...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby

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Being a fairly ‘green’ birder, mainly cycling and using public transport, I normally only travel long distances for one particular bir...
Friday, March 11, 2016

Winter birds in the Florida Keys

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I've uploaded an annotated list for January's trip to the Florida  Keys  http://www.fssbirding.org.uk/floridatrip2016.htm Thi...
Tuesday, March 01, 2016

Rainham Marshes Patch Listing 2016 – February

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As expected after the initial rush of January to see all the regular wintering species, locate the scarcer visitors, and luck-in on the res...
Friday, February 05, 2016

Rainham Marshes Patch Listing 2016 - January

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So, I’m doing a Big Year! Ok, so not like in the movie but a year long list at RSPB Rainham Marshes. As well as my own personal year list fo...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

100 species from the house observatory

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Many birders keep lists, some more prosaic than others. A local patch list or British list are among the most popular. For others, the garde...
Friday, December 11, 2015

Goldeneye at Hogganfield Loch

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A pencil drawing of Common Goldeneye ( Bucephala clangula ) at Hogganfield Lock. This loch in Glasgow is close to the city centre but attrac...
Saturday, November 28, 2015

Drawing Dancing Cranes

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Pencil drawing of dancing Eurasian Cranes ( Grus grus ) at Hornborgasjön in Sweden. Lake Hornborga is the main spring staging site in Swede...
Friday, November 27, 2015

Short-eared Owls at RSPB Rainham Marshes

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A pencil drawing of the Short-eared Owls ( Asio flammeus ) at Rainham Marshes. Large numbers of these messenger birds have arrived in the Br...
Friday, October 30, 2015

Mellow Heron

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Grey Herons (Ardea cinerea) photographed through autumn leaves. No image on this blog or related sites may be used, copied, or re-poste...
Friday, September 25, 2015

Summerland Key Birding Trip Report

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I've uploaded a trip report  from my recent field work in Florida Keys (8-15 September) which was based around Summerland and Cudjoe Key...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

Dry Tortugas

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Earlier this month my job took me back took to Florida Keys. On our last day of field work we decided to have a break and head out to the Dr...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Moving to the marshes

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At the beginning of July we moved out of London and just into Essex. We’re living right next to Rainham Marshes RSPB reserve now, our living...
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Friday, June 26, 2015

Ayrshire Bird Report 2012

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The 2012 edition of the Ayrshire Bird Report is now available priced at £5.00. Essential reading for anyone visiting the county, it contains...

Kindrogan Trip Report 2015

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Earlier this month I returned from my thirteenth trip on an undergraduate university field course to the Field Studies Council's Kindrog...
Friday, May 15, 2015

Ambience with a hint of birds

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Here are a couple of new ambient tracks I've created recently, routing my synths through a Strymon Big Sky. Keeping it bird-themed, I...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

South-west Spain birding trip report

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I've uploaded a birding trip report to the main website for the area around the small town of Zahara de los Atunes, situated on the Co...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Yellow-crowned Night Heron drawing

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A pencil drawing from the weekend of a Yellow-crowned Night Heron ( Nyctanassa violacea ). This was based on a photograph taken in the mangr...
Friday, March 13, 2015

Blackbird (and Jack)

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Here is a 10 minutes recording of an urban Blackbird ( Turdus merula ) singing from an internal garden courtyard, with four walls on either ...
Monday, March 09, 2015

Red Kite drawing

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Well, birding activity has been low since the turn of the year due to the arrival of a new hatchling in the family. This weekend I found som...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Grey Herons in low winter sun

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Grey Herons seem to exhibit an endless amount of poses which makes them an inexhaustible subject. I've been photographing these birds si...
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