A much overdue blog post with a bit of an update on what i'm up to.
I spent most of the summer working in Norfolk studying the foraging behaviour of Sandwich Terns, with a couple of expedition cruises squeezed in. It was pretty full on, over the course of the whole summer I had about 6 days where I wasn't working. It was great to finally have a constant flow of bird work!
I'm now back in Somerset and working as Assistant Warden at the new WWT reserve at Steart Marshes, with studying the usage of the site by wintering wildfowl and waders as my primary concern. I'm also fitting in a few days of guiding through Avalon Wildlife where I can, and next week i'm off on another cruise, this time to the Caribbean. Mad busy, but i'm absolutely loving it, and plan to carry on like this for as long as I can!
I'm in the process of turning my Avalon Wildife site/blog into a proper website, and so this will be my only blog, covering everything, and hopefully i'll get around to updating it more frequently. For now, heres a few photos from the last few weeks. Most from Steart Marshes. This isn't a great site for photography to be honest, the strength of the site for attracting birds is its sheer size, but this is its weakness for birders and photographers, things are mostly flipping miles away:
I spent most of the summer working in Norfolk studying the foraging behaviour of Sandwich Terns, with a couple of expedition cruises squeezed in. It was pretty full on, over the course of the whole summer I had about 6 days where I wasn't working. It was great to finally have a constant flow of bird work!
I'm now back in Somerset and working as Assistant Warden at the new WWT reserve at Steart Marshes, with studying the usage of the site by wintering wildfowl and waders as my primary concern. I'm also fitting in a few days of guiding through Avalon Wildlife where I can, and next week i'm off on another cruise, this time to the Caribbean. Mad busy, but i'm absolutely loving it, and plan to carry on like this for as long as I can!
I'm in the process of turning my Avalon Wildife site/blog into a proper website, and so this will be my only blog, covering everything, and hopefully i'll get around to updating it more frequently. For now, heres a few photos from the last few weeks. Most from Steart Marshes. This isn't a great site for photography to be honest, the strength of the site for attracting birds is its sheer size, but this is its weakness for birders and photographers, things are mostly flipping miles away:
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| Avocet on the River Parrett |
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| Black-tailed Godwits |
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| Buzzard |
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| Dunlin |
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| Wigeon and Hinkley Point in the background |
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| Wigeon with a more appealing background |
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| Cattle Egret |
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| Purple Heron. A nice find, as was the Cattle Egret above. Having doen most of my recent birding on coastal watchpoints its nice to get a few waterbirds onto the self found list |
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| Short-eared Owls put on a good show for a few weeks in early November but have gone quiet recently |
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| Very approachable young Merlin, which is still hanging around |
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| Stunning leucistic Sparrowhawk which graced the reserve for a month or so |
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| Snipe, 100's of these on site, only really seen when we enter the marsh and fields for work |
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| Shoveler, this one at Greylake RSPB |
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| Skylark. These love the rough grassland and salt marsh, hoping to see good numbers nesting next year |
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| Surf Scoter at Blue Anchor, I took a trip over to twitch this last week |
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| Black Redstart at Dunster on the same twitch |
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