Index – Intro – Ch.1 – Ch.2 – Ch.3 – Ch.4 – Ch.5
Ch.6 – Ch.7 – Ch.8 – Ch.9 – Ch.10 – Ch.11 – Ch.12 – Ch.13
- (No blog entry) Buzzard trying to lift a young rabbit ahead of my approaching car in a narrow Cornwall road surrounded by hedges. Fails to achieve lift-off, drops the rabbit, which scrambles, apparently unhurt, in the hedge.
- 9 March 2014, blog 30 September 2015 – First time I saw a dunnock and realised it was not a mere sparrow: sat on a stick near Ogmore-by-Sea singing its heart out. What drew my attention was that the song was very unsparrow-like and sounded more like that of a skylark (at least, that what it seemed like to inexperienced ears). Except that skylarks perform their repertoire in the sky – hence the name – and this one remained in one spot on its stick.
- 19 June 2016, blog 8 March 2018 – In San Pere de Rodes, Catalunya, watching a song thrush singing a long and involved serenade inside a bush. After nearly 2 years (20 February 2018) I started to have my doubt about my provisional identification, placed a picture on the Bird Forum, and was rather surprised to receive the verdict of a nightingale. Imagine listening for the best part of 5 minutes to what is deemed THE bird song par excellence, and not realising what it was. Maybe if I go to areas where they are more common than in Britain, especially in the months of May or June, I should listen to some samples of its song, so that next time round, I can enjoy in the full knowledge what I’m listening to.
- 13 September 2017, blog 1 November 2017 – Wood pigeon taking a shower – always nice to see something confirmed in nature after you’ve read about it.
- 16 June 2018, blog 14 August 2018 – Great skua attempting to chase me from its general nesting area, but after failing to do so, venting its displaced anger on a sheep and its lamb.
- 16 June 2018, blog 3 August 2018 – Another example of known bird behaviour observed in person: a ringed plover pretending to be hurt in order to guide me away from its nesting site.
- (No blog entry) Memory from my youth: seeing a nest in a house that was in the process of being built. It contained 3 blueish-green eggs. When I held one in my hands, it squished in my fingers. Somewhat distraught I left the rest of the nest as I found it. I never was a collector of eggs, I was merely curious to see wild bird eggs.
- Sunbathing birds, one song thrush (8 April 2017, blog 16 September 2017) and one great tit (4 June 2017, blog 17 August 2017).
- (No blog entry yet) 15 June 2018 – Great skua communal bath in the loch.
- 26 December 2014, 1 August 2016, blog 30 January 2017 – Magpie sheltering from the rain.
- (No blog entry) Magpies picked off two baby guinea pigs.
- 5 March 2018, 16 March 2018, 21 March 2018, blog 6 April 2018 – Cormorant with filoplumes
- 5 May 2012, blog 23 August 2015 – male blackbird displaying to whoever it may concern
- 19 August 2015, blog 20 August 2015 – Sulawesi white-eye in tropical rainforest biome of Eden project
- Starling murmuration, small one near West Wittering (16 September 2016, blog 21 October 2016) and larger one near Blackpool pier (25 February 2018, blog 18 March 2018)
- (No blog entry yet), 20 July 2018 – feral pigeon pecking at mortar in Bishop’s Palace in St. David’s
- 3 April 2017, blog 6 May 2017 – crows stealing wool from sheep, see Bird Forum discussion
- (No blog entry yet) 4 April 2017 – oystercatcher tossing a cockle, see Bird Forum discussion
- sparrow in electricity meter box in Myanmar, 8 April 2013, blog 24 November 2016 https://marnixbirdgallery.wordpress.com/2016/11/24/house-sparrow-nest-with-electricity-meter/
- 3 November 2015, blog 22 November 2015 – great black-backed gull with wonky wing
- juvenile peregrines, twice in a day ! well, tbh, only once, the first time was a false alarm, beng a juvenile kestrel
- (no blog entry) a crowd of herring gulls stamping their feet rhythmically on the grass field next to the CAPL building, presumably tempting the earthworms to think it was raining heavily and as such had to leave their burrows
Index – Intro – Ch.1 – Ch.2 – Ch.3 – Ch.4 – Ch.5
Ch.6 – Ch.7 – Ch.8 – Ch.9 – Ch.10 – Ch.11 – Ch.12 – Ch.13
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