Unable to do what I went to Dorchester today for, I drove a little further and spent several hours at RSPB's Radipole reserve. This is a large body of open water and marsh in the middle of Weymouth and is good for a lot of birds. I failed to see the Caspian Gull or the Pallas Warbler but I did see another Bittern. I also saw: Cetti's Warbler (# ( Read more... )

I have been a bit quiet on the Birds front.

Today watervole is away at Picocon, I didn't have any work and went Birding at Arne (via a couple of smaller locations) and have had a reasonable day (62 species today) including ( Read more... )

Today was Brownsea day, and it was a good one ( Read more... )

Earlier this week I was talking to our eldest son about the recent update to the local Google Earth Photo of our house. We have since been refining our estimate as to when it was taken ( Read more... )

Today was Brownsea Day - 6 hardy volunteers, one fire lots of Rhody cut and burnt ( Read more... )

This morning I was trying to squeeze another book on to the shelves, when it and a few other tottered and fell off. I thought its about time the shelves get sorted ( Read more... )

Today, was Brownsea day, in spite of a bad attack of lurgy yesterday I was determined to go. We had a lovely day, cleared lots of Rhody, had a really good fire, and saw a few birds. It was actually very poor for birds (by Brownsea standards ( Read more... )

Last year I didn't do as much birding as the previous year. I didn't go out birding today, though I did stop for 15 minutes at Hatchpond, on route to B&Q this morning. So to start the year off with ( Read more... )

Today was Brownsea day ( Read more... )

When we got our allotment earlier this year one of the first things we planted was Jerusalem Artichokes. They have prospered, grew to a height of 10 feet and had a few small flowers (they are relatives of Sunflowers). One does not crop them until the frost kills the plants, today I cut the tops down and dug up the first plant (there are about 2 ( Read more... )