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Birdwatcher’s Diary No.41

By Malcolm Fincham “Sweet smell of summer, the jasmine’s in bloom, July is dressed up and playing her tune …” What great lyrics to that Seventies song by the Isley…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.40

By Malcolm Fincham On returning from my whirlwind tour of Scotland, with fond memories of the wildlife sightings still lingering, and feeling I needed another holiday to recover fully, I…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.39

By Malcolm Fincham With little sign of any new sightings to photograph locally, on Sunday June 8, loaded to the hilt with camera equipment, I boarded a train at Kings…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No. 38

By Malcolm Fincham With young families of birds now on display, buttercups casting a yellow sheen across the meadows and a settled spell of weather to start the month of…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.37

By Malcolm Fincham On Thursday, May 23, I squeezed in a short  afternoon visit to Thursley Common. Most of my time was spent avoiding heavy showers and my visit was…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.36

By Malcolm Fincham A rather pleasant  Sunday morning on May 12  tempted me out on a walk around Stoke Reserve. At Stoke Lock more than 100 swifts could be seen…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.35

By Malcolm Fincham What an incredibly unusual year it has been so far! Probably the strangest since records began? Well, my records anyway. Mind you, official Met Office records apparently…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.34

By Malcolm Fincham It was as if someone had flicked a switch and turned the heating up (a bit) once the rain had passed through on Saturday April 13. And…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.33

By Malcolm Fincham The first week of April continued with a cool theme to the weather with still no sign of any summer migrants locally and almost certainly just as…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.32

By Malcolm Fincham On a very wet Saturday, March 16, I decided to investigate a report I had heard earlier in the week of quite a rare sighting in the…