BLOG - 2015

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Dec 31 Best of 2015(a summary of the year)

Dec 30 Specific diver(Pacific Diver & Lesser Scaup, Cornwall)

Dec 20 Rumper (self-found Red-rumped Swallow, Rough-legged Buzzard etc, Norfolk)

Dec 6 Norfolk redneck(Red-necked Grebe plus Buckenham corvids, Norfolk)

Nov 21 Stuck in a rut (seawatching and Common Cranes, Norfolk)

Nov 20 Punkbird (Hoopoe again in Norfolk)

Nov 15 County-listing... why? (Hoopoe and Glossy Ibis, Norfolk)

Nov 10 Feeling craggy? (Crag Martin, Derbyshire)

Nov 1 So that was October(a review of a hectic month)

Oct 28 Recent articles (BBC Wildlife,Bird Watching, The Birdwatcher's Yearbook)

Oct 27 It's late October (Black[-ish] Brant and Merveille du Jour in Norfolk, but I've still found no rarity)

Oct 22 Sibechat (Siberian Stonechat in Norfolk)

Oct 19 Feeling blue (rarity packed day in Norfolk: Bluetails, Issy Shrikes, Hume's, Blyth's Reed, Pallas's etc)

Oct 18 Pure gold (birding East Anglia in easterlies - but no rares self-found)

Oct 14 It's October (...and I go birding)

Sep 29 Red veins, blue eyes (Red-veined Darters in Norfolk)

Sep 23 Acadian Fire (Acadian Flycatcher in Kent)

Sep 19 Six legs, not two (failed bushbashing in Norfolk, but some nice insects)

Sep 9 Beach bum (a stranded Long-tailed Skua in Norfolk)

Sep 7 Staring at the sea (Norfolk seawatching including Long-tailed Skua and Balearic Shearwater)

Sep 4 Convulsions(Convulvous Hawkmoth in Norwich)

Sep 1 Fair Isle(copies of my recent Bird Watching magazine feature)

Aug 30 Live by the swordgrass(Dark Swordgrass and Rush Veneer in Norwich)

Aug 27 Redfoot before Rutland (Red-footed Falcon in Lincs, and the BirdFair)

Aug 18 Birdfair, moths and more (Fen, Webb's and Twin-spot Wainscots in Norfolk)

Aug 10 Passenger (Norfolk's first Passenger, Dune Tiger Beetle, White-rumped Sand, Willow Emerald Damselfly)

Aug 7 Cracking Norfolk day (Dune Tiger Beetle, Great Crested Newt and more in Norfolk)

Aug 1 Ladies' day (Creeping Lady's Tress in Norfolk)

Jul 27 Moffin' (recent moths in Norwich)

Jul 19 On the margin (Fen raft spider in Norfolk)

Jul 17 Bogged down (Bog Bush-cricket, Brown Beaked-Sedge in Dorset)

Jul 13 My dream moth (Marsh Carpet near Norwich)

Jul 10 Red-veined and waspish (Red-veined darter and Wasp Beetle in Norwich)

Jul 10 A summer of moths (Red-necked Footman, Golden Plusia, True Lover's Knot and more, in Norwich)

Jul 7 Recent credits (articles in BBC Wildlife, World Birdwatch, Bird Watching magazines)

Jul 2 Breckland wonderland (Spanish catchfly, Proliferous Pink, Small Marbled Clover in the Brecks)

Jun 27 Some candy talking (rare Acros in Norfolk; Elephant Hawkmoths at home)

Jun 19 Bardsey bunting (Cretzschmar's Bunting and Thrift Clearwing in Wales)

Jun 12 Hawking one's wares (Norfolk Hawker in Norfolk)

Jun 11 A swallow's tale (Swallowtail in Norfolk, Hudsonian Whimbrel in Sussex)

May 31 Lady Slippers & beetlemania (Lady Slipper Orchid&White-spotted Sable, Cumbria; Tansy Beetle, Yorks)

May 28 Gene pool (Pool Frog, Fen Raft Spider, Little Bittern, Military Orchid, Brown Argus in East Anglia)

May 21 I like hairy tussocks (moths and Water Vole in Norfolk)

May 18 Award-winning photographer (success in the Norfolk Bird and Wildlife Fair photographic competition)

May 14 Recent work (publications, writing, photographs)

May 10 Citril (Citril Finch in Norfolk)

May 9 LSD (Dotterel in Norfolk)

May 2 Blackpits (Hudsonian Godwit in Somerset)

May 1 The meaning of life (Adders, Bluebells in Norfolk)

Apr 26 Doing time for GBH (Great Blue Heron on Scilly)

Apr 23 Emperor (Emperor Moth in Norfolk)

Apr 19 A shrewd move?(Pygmy Shrew & Harvest Mouse in Cambs; Fritillary meadows in Suffolk)

Apr 15 Never adder bAdder day (dipping herps in Norfolk)

Apr 10 Crete!(botanising, birding and herping on a Greek island)

Mar 26 Northern exposure (photo-rich series of embedded blogposts on trip to Arctic Norway & Finnish Lapland)

Mar 14 Work bits 'n' pieces (recent articles and photography credits)

Mar 12 Winter vs spring (change of the seasons in Norfolk and Suffolk)

Mar 7 Not boaring (Wild Boar in Glos; Little Bunting in Glamorgan)

Feb 28 Should have stayed in bed (seeing not very much in Breckland)

Feb 26 Adder nuvver long week(Adder in Norfolk)

Feb 23 Adder 'nuff of winter? (Adder in Norfolk)

Feb 20 Larkin' about (WoodLark in Breckland)

Feb 18 Going underground(Daubenton's & Natterer's Bat, cave spider & scarlet elf cup in Norwich)

Feb6 I heard a murmur (Starling roost in Norwich)

Feb 2 Spectacles(Starling and Pied Wagtail roosts in Norwich)

Jan 25 Birds and people(high-tide wader roost at Snettisham; Swan Lake at Welney)

Jan 19 Porning it(Med Gull, Great Northern Diver, Treecreeper around Norwich)

Jan 14 Recent articles

Jan 11 A chaos of crows(corvid roost in the Norfolk Broads)

Jan 10 Tits(common birds in Breckland)

WILDLIFE BLOG 2015