The Biggest Twitch - birding and blogging all over the world!

• Posted by Ruth Miller at 5:08 PM | add or read comments (3)

DON’T get me wrong, the birding in Wales can be great! This year’s seen an amazing number of rarities and vagrants on our doorstep: Red-flanked Bluetail, Red-breasteed Flycatcher, Yellow-browed Warblers, Hume’s Yellow-browed Warbler, Desert Wheatear, Pechora Pipit, and Great White Egret all spring to mind.

But Alan and I decided we wanted to bird further afield.

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Birds not blogs for jet-setting Ruth

• Posted by Ruth Miller at 6:23 PM | add or read comments (0)

RUTH and fellow bird watcher Alan Davies are flying out to Arizona at the start of world record twitching attempt.

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All the fun of the fair!

• Posted by Ruth Miller at 7:06 PM | add or read comments (0)

I’m off to the Birdfair, or The British Birdwatching Fair to be precise, at Rutland Water this weekend.

Three days of all sorts of things to do with birds, birdwatching and wildlife in general.

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The ones that got away!

• Posted by Ruth Miller at 10:23 AM | add or read comments (0)

WALES has done pretty well for rare birds recently. First, the Alaw Estuary in Anglesey was visited by a Black Stork.

This was a fairly obliging bird, hanging around for plenty of people to see it, even if it did occasionally give everyone the slip briefly by sneaking away into some nearby fields.

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Aargh! Turn the volume down, will you!

• Posted by Ruth Miller at 10:50 AM | add or read comments (0)

AM I turning into a Grumpy Old Woman or is life getting noisier these days?

All around us the general hubbub of daily life seems to have increased without us realising: we all live with the constant background noise of cars, machinery, tools, loud voices, music and (if you’re near the coast) Herring Gulls!

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At least someone likes fortnightly bin collections

• Posted by Ruth Miller at 11:14 AM | add or read comments (0)

THE street cleaners were out early again this morning. Long before you or I had opened our eyes, they were out on the streets, picking up the discarded food from the day before.

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