We have reached the end of January and its snowing big time outside tonight.
I have been around various venues over the past couple of weeks,like most birders getting the year list up and running,here are a few photos from my travels.
GREY WAGTAIL River Dour Dover.
WATER RAIL River Dour near the Corn Mill.
BARN OWL hunting at Shirley Moor Appledore.
HMS ENTERPRISE Exploring the final frontier off Samphire Hoe.
These took me by surprise as I drove out of Dymchurch the other day.
NO NEED TO VISIT BRAZIL NOW.
COLOUR RINGED ROCK PIPIT AT CONYER,evidently it is a French ringed bird.
SHORE LARK AT CONYER one of four.
And to finish the month my favourite shot from January,the Barn Owl at Appledore.
You've been busy and had a pretty good month. I've just sat at hoe and moaned as a consequence my year list is up to 42. Nice barn owl shots.
born and bred in Dover, educated at Dover grammar school, early interest in all sports , nature and steam trains. I lived very close to the railway line at Tower Hamlets. On leaving school I found a career in local govt as a building inspector working at Dover, Ashford and Shepway councils, retiring after forty years service in 2006. I played football in the kent amateur league for crabble athletic, cricket for dover cosmopolitans, and late in life discovered the joys of rugby playing for Dovers lower sides into my forties. I have two sons Colin and Philip[packet]and am in a relationship with Cathy. Birdwatching began seriously in my late teens when Spud Taylor introduced me to the song of the willow warbler , terns at sandwich bay, redshanks and snipe at stodmarsh and shelduck at nagden and apart from when rugby became all consuming I have been a birder ever since. Since retiring I have spent most of my time wandering around East Kent watching and now photographing birds and butterflies. I am a volunteer ranger at Samphire Hoe on a tuesday where my claim to fame is finding a hoopoe in august 2009.