Mull

Mull

Eider

Hooded Crow

Red Breasted Merganser

Great Northern Diver

Shag

Goosander

Woodcock

Golden Eagle

Sea Eagle

Mull

Mull

28th Dec - 4th Jan. Photos on Flickr>>

Reading This

Drew This

Frank and Caravan at Christmas

Upstairs at the Boundary for festive nibbles

Festive Foliage

We got our christmas tree

Sister Visit

Sarah, Helen and Kate up for the day.

Frank Xmas

Christmas Lunch upstairs at the Gun. With Chris, Mike, Jim and Tim from Atticus Finch, Mark and Marianne from MarMar, Tom Neish and Steve and Jacqui Sleddon. Pool in Poet after, then to Lyndsy's Bespoke part on Commercial Street.

Water Rail

Barnes WWT

What Do We Want?! No (Climate) Change!

Christ Church School Xmas bazaar, then we walked up to Parliament Square to join the Stop Climate Chaos march

Saw This

G and I bike around Richmond Park. Very Wet. Afternoon to Wetland Center. Bittern and Grey Wagtail.

Reading This

We Live In Public

Film with Neil and Sarah. Mexican dinner after.

Langstone Harbour / Farlingham Marshes

Spoonbill, Grey Plover, Meadow Pipet. Large flocks of Brent Geese all weekend.

Puck's Cottage, Chichester

Weekend away with Steve, Jacqui, Freddie and Felix. VERY Stormy weather on Saturday. Sunday bright sunny day. Walked on West Wittering beach.

Christ Church from Frank Towers

Looking down Fournier Street

Red Crested Pochard! Roast Chicken!

Wetland Center in am - Red Crested Pochard. Late afternoon Paula, Kelly and Julia over for roast chicken.

Richmond Park stag fighting

Walk in Richmond Park. Beautiful day. Stag fight! G has cold, worse as day goes on so cancel Barnes fireworks.

Fireworks! Curry!

Clapham Common for fireworks then The Bombay Bicycle for a curry.

Reading This

Bittern!

... and Jack Snipe at Wetland Center. Halloween party at Neil & Sarah's

Reading This

3D movie at the Barbican with G. Followed by a walk over to Exmouth Market for a pizza and then home via Kings Cross

Walk to Work Week abandoned after first walk - back playing up. Stayed home in bent positions.

Start of 'Walk To Work Week'.

Walk good - just over 2 hours - but back playing up when I got up and progressively worse during the day.

Cambridge

Walk around Cambridge with G, Renie and Clare then lunch and home on train - leaving van to have some bodywork touched-up. Kings Road to look at furniture and curtains, then meet Paula for drinks in Pigs Ear and then cocktails at Bluebird.

Early start, drive up to North Norfolk to visit RSPB Snettisham and NWT Cley. Weather a bit grey and damp. Good birding. Back via fish n' chip lunch from Hunstanton and a stop-off at Welney WWT to see Hooper Swans then back to Cambridge. Dinner at Clare's with all the family. Bearded Tit, Pink Footed Goose, Whooper Swan, Redwing.

Picked up after worked by G at Whitechapel, then to Cambridge for the weekend. Evening at Eddie and Renie's

Five Go Mad presentation. Success!

Bluesinlondon Records acrimonious demise. Fail!

Morning at Matt & Sarah’s, then for lunch at the mill, via Ian & Fi’s to say hello. Walk back along canal and then drive home. Bit of work in late afternoon.

Walk in the Chilterns with Emma & Rob (it’s his birthday), and Paula & Kelly, with Pippin the dog. Lots of Red Kites. Long walk, missed a turning and had to go cross country to get back.

To Matt & Sarah's in the evening. Fi came, Ian at home working/baby sitting. Nice dinner, not too pissed, earlyish night.

In West End after meeting and bump into Ben Gilbey. Had a catchup over pints in the Cross keys on Endell Street

Reading This

New Camera (Canon G10) Arrives. Rosie is staying, so we went out for a drink and Sushi in Northcote Road

Walk to London Zoo with G.

Freddie's Christening

Richard over from NYC. G, him and me breakfast in Shoreditch house then get boat from Tower Bridge to Greenwich and walk over Blackheath to church. To Skylon at Royal Festival Hall for cocktails after, with Igor and his girlfriend

Chichester

Beautiful day. Walk at West Wittering and then, later, round Pagham Harbour and then back to campsite across fields in the dark

Walking along Thames up from Kingston with Paula & Kelly, plus the two dogs - Archie and Pipin. Rented a motorboat for an hour near Hampton Court

Rainham Marshes RSPB

Rainham Marshes RSPB

Goldfinches - 10 flock
Collard dove
Mallard
Warbler ???
Heron
Wood pidg
Heron
M swan
Can goose
Magpie
Robin
Chaffinch
Gul flying. ? Herring
Starling
Little grebe
Frogs cslling
Egret
Sandmartin
Reed warbler. Family group parent feeding youngster
Grr bb gul
Greenfinch
Sparrow
Sparrowhawk
Swallow

Barnes WWT

Barnes WWT

Com sandpiper
Lapwing
Starling
Kestral...
Might have been a hobby. Seen diving/swerving a pond where I was
watching dragonflies...

Rook
Crow
Jackdaw
Wpidge
Tufted
Gadwall
Shovellor
Teal
Pochard
Mallard
All ducks eclipse
Swan
Coot
Moorhen
Swift (only a couple)
Heron
Can goose
Lbbg
Bhg
Parakeet
Herringul
Cormorant
Ylg

Prominent White chest
Black head
Dark brown body
Dull pink legs
Greeny gray bill
Green tinge eye line
Body uniform dark brown
With female mallard
Head and beak narrower than mallard

Walking Arun Valley

Beautiful day/walk. 11 miles. Archie the dog with us. Lapwing, a
Godwit, green and gold finches, tits.

Rainham Marshes

Sedge warbler
Swallow
Swift
Magpie
Bbird
Thrush
Heron
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
House martin
Sand martin
Magpie
Herring gul
Reed bunting
Coot
Moorhen
Green sandpiper
Little grebe
Bh gul
Egret
Mallard
Kestral
Starling
Lark
Reed warbler
Mute swan
W pidgeon
Pidgeon
Collard dive
Sparrow
Cormorant

Pulborough Brooks

House martin
Sand martin
Swan
Lapwing
Greenfinch
Wren
Blackbird
Mallard
B h gul
Swallow
Thrush
Wood pidgeon
Crow (pair, preening each other )
Pheasant
Moorhen
Coot (juv)
Canada goose
Pied wagtail
Starling
Graylag goose
Magpie
Ruff (appaently)
Black tailed godwit

Linton Festival with Vulnerables