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Almost two years to the day since the last Bardsey Greenish Warbler was picked up on song, today saw it happen again with a vocal bird at the farm relocating to the Observatory. In horrendous weather...
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Our recent good run of birds continued this morning as we reached the Narrows. A stunning male Yellow Wagtail with black ear coverts, a blue grey crown, long white supercilium and mainly yellow throat....
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A quieter couple of days were brightened up by an extremely confiding Pomarine Skua which spent most of this morning touring the Island. The wholly dark underwing suggests that this bird is a full...
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Apologies for the lack of blogs recently but it's all been a bit manic. Our fantastic late spring feels like it's pretty much over but a skulking Acrocephalus in the Obs garden gave us hope yet again....
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We'll be honest. We were starting to think about our summer holiday. We'd leave Bardsey today and head up North via the rather stonking Little Swift. But the weather isn't in agreement. Raging 30mph...
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It has been suggested that we may have dropped a bit of a bollock. More precisely, a few very experienced birders have suggested that yesterday's Greenish Warbler bares more than a passing resemblance...
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A brief weather window meant that we could get off Bardsey for a 'summer' holiday. The interesting Green(ish) Warbler continues to cause debate, so we intend to continue our research whilst we're off....
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Our busman's holiday has continued with a few days of birding, ringing and a quick twitch. The smart male Red-backed Shrike at East Chevington was too close to ignore, so we went to pick it up for the...
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We've been given a few more pointers on the separation of Greenish Warbler and (Bright) Green Warbler. It's not going to help to secure the identification of our bird, but it does provide a few more...
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I thought Rich needed a rest from his Greenish Warbler research, so I booked a holiday in a yurt on the Isle of Muck for the last week of our holiday. It was phenomenal! Corncrakes crexing from the...
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We don't get to see too much in the way of dragonfly action in a normal year on Bardsey. The fresh water areas on the island are eutrophic in nature, and whilst this favours the abundant Palmate Newt,...
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A few Willow Warblers in the South End Gorse early on suggested that migrants were on the move. But it was only when we crossed the Narrows that we realised that it was going to be a pretty decent day....
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Article 12
It has been ages since we've blogged. Our only excuse is that we've been quite busy. Back on Bardsey we have managed to build a second Heligoland Trap in the Obs garden. We were inspired by the fact...
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Well it wasn't all bad getting stuck off the Island for an extra couple of nights. When news broke on the evening of the 21st that there was a Broad-billed Sandpiper at Seaton Snook, we were already...
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Article 10
It has been very quiet bird-wise since our last post. So quiet in fact that we've spent a fair bit of time bothering undergrowth in an attempt to improve our chances of catching birds when they do...
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Northwesterly winds promised a bit of action at sea, but they never really delivered. One lucky observer had a distant Sabine's Gull and a couple of Black Guillemots whilst the rest of us only managed...
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It's been a week of seawatching with little in the way of island-based excitement. Nine Red-throated Divers, three Black-throated Divers, two Great Northern Divers, 17 Sooty Shearwaters, seven Balearic...
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We've been away from Bardsey for the past week. It was inevitable that we were going to miss a bird or two; it was the last week of September after all. At the start of the week it seemed as though we...
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Well it's been a little while coming, but Yellow-browed Warblers finally made it to Bardsey today. There were at least two; one at the Obs and one we trapped and ringed at Nant. Either a third bird, or...
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The weather has looked very promising for the last few days but it has so far been rather quiet on the birding front. There has been plenty of time to hypothesise about what we would have had, had...
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A very damp mist type wetness has hung over the island for most of the day. But it hasn't all been bad. We'll let the pictures do the talking.The long-awaited and oft-predicted first for Bardsey. This...
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It isn't too often that Bardsey feels like Southeast Asia. But today you could be forgiven for thinking it might be (as long as you ignore the hail stones). A new Yellow-browed Warbler, a flyover...
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It's been a fantastic few days, although frustrating at times. The beautiful clear skies that saw such Bardsey scarcities as Red Kite, Hen Harrier and Hooded Crow drift across to our shores continued...
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November on Bardsey proved to be a massive disappointment bird wise. We decided that a holiday was the only medicine and that the oft suggested winter trip to the South of France, specifically Les Baux...
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We've moved! As many of you know, we're now the Wardens of Skokholm Island. It's a fantastic place, Britain's first Bird Observatory, home to Britain's densest Manx Shearwater colony and largest Storm...
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