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Birdwatcher’s Diary No.287

By Malcolm Fincham As the last days of August passed me by, I suddenly realised my time was overdue to reflect on some of my observations over the past few…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.286 “Tell ’em About the ‘Honey’ Mummy!” A Summer Special

By Malcolm Fincham One really has to be of a certain vintage to recall the classic 1970s Sugar Puff’s TV advertisement. Although not relating much in looks to the advert’s…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.285

By Malcolm Fincham By the first weeks of August there were already signs that the tide of summer was on the turn. And within the avian world they were becoming…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.284

By Malcolm Fincham While southern European countries bathed in equatorial heat, squeezed upon it by a meandering Jet Stream, the British Isles, to the north of it, continued to suffer…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.283

By Malcolm Fincham Moving into July, the weather had become less settled in southern counties of the UK. Having escaped any rainfall for the most part of June, Atlantic westerlies…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.282

By Malcolm Fincham My arrival back to Guildford after my trip to the Orkney’s saw dry weather continuing to prevail. Locally, temperatures continued to rise into the mid to high…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.281 A visit to the Orkney Islands

By Malcolm Fincham Once again, and with much gratitude to my birdwatching pals, I was on the road for another adventure. This time a once in a lifetime opportunity to…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.280

By Malcolm Fincham By the end of the second week of May a long awaited spell of settled weather had arrived. This was much thanks to a high pressure system…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.279

By Malcolm Fincham As we entered another month the bright yellow colours of April’s daffodils and lesser celandine began to dissolved within the caeruleus hue of bluebells about the Surrey…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.278

By Malcolm Fincham Temperatures remained below average during the later weeks of April as a Scandinavian high pressure continued to draw a cool east to north-easterly breeze across the country.…