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birding never sleeps: 1979
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birding never sleeps: Two Yellow-legged Gulls along the Adur (15 December)
Saturday 15th. Horrible weather hampered a tour of the local Shoreham sites. Seventy-two Dunlin, a Curlew and lots of gulls on the Adur by...
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birding never sleeps: Lowestoft (19-26 September 2025)
Megan and I spent a week in Lowestoft with Otis, mostly travelling around by bus. An enjoyable time despite seeing virtually no birds. Place...
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birding never sleeps: February 2018
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birding never sleeps: Knepp 15 May: Turtle Doves but for how much longer?
Sunday 15th. An enjoyable walk around the southern section of the Knepp Estate where bird song was at a level rarely heard locally. Highlig...
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birding never sleeps: September 2024
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birding never sleeps: April 2002
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birding never sleeps: West Dean Woods to Scotney (28 November-2 December)
Monday 2 December . An enjoyable cold, sunny day in the Rye area with Matt who I met at Glynde shortly after 05:45 (I was a few minutes late...
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birding never sleeps: Mediterranean Gull on the Adur (27-31 December)
The decade finished with a Mediterranean Gull on the River Adur. It had me thinking about when I'd seen my first during a seawatch at Portl...
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birding never sleeps: GALAPAGOS part 8: Floreana (18 May 2025)
Sunday 18 May 2025 . FLOREANA. I was on deck at 06:15 to find we were anchored of Punta Cormorant having arrived overnight, little was movin...
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birding never sleeps: ECUADOR August 1986: Coca Falls, Mindo & Cotopaxi
Part two of a blog recounting a trip to Ecuador with Nick Preston. More unreliable memories and scanned degraded slides of poor quality to ...
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birding never sleeps: June 1989
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birding never sleeps: MADAGASCAR August 1995 (part 3)
This is the final part of my blogged account of a trip to Madagascar with John Cooper, Nick Preston, Barry Stidolph and occasionally Terr...
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birding never sleeps: Pleasant birding in the Shoreham Area (24 February-01 March)
Monday 01 March . I seawatched from Widewater in a light/moderate NE but saw very little. Birds might have been passing at distance, it was ...
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birding never sleeps: Crowlink & Birling (1 May)
Sunday 1 May. A bit more moving off Shoreham Harbour making it the best day this week, although still not much to write home about. Two adul...
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birding never sleeps: Cuckmere colour-ring rainbow (15 December)
Monday 16 December . Megan and I took Cookie to Shoreham Fort and along the beach seeing 2 Purple Sandpipers , a calling Chiffchaff , 40 Hou...
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birding never sleeps: West Sussex and Squacco Heron (28 July-06 August)
Tuesday 06 August. I took Cookie up to Mill Hill and while there received a phonecall from JK asking if I fancied going to Pagham for the S...
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birding never sleeps: Bishopstone, Cuckmere and Mill Hill (03-10 November)
Sunday 10 November. DB and I went to Bishopstone looking for the released (by Wiltshire reintroduction programme) Great Bustard . A smart bi...
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birding never sleeps: GALAPAGOS part 2: Rabida and South Isabela (08-09 May 2025)
Thursday 08 May . CHINESE HAT and RABIDA. I was up and on deck soon after dawn (05:00) to find us anchored of the small island of Chinese Ha...
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birding never sleeps: April 2021
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birding never sleeps: Widewater (2 November)
Saturday 02 November. With very strong SW winds (gusting to 50 mph) I tried seawatching from Widewater. Hut 32 provided some shelter from t...
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birding never sleeps: ECUADOR July/August 1986: Arrival and Rio Napo
Introduction. In 1986 Nick Preston and I decided to visit Ecuador during the summer. We had previously been to Peru (1984) and Costa Ric...
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birding never sleeps: More gulls (17-19 December)
Thursday 19 December . A morning wander around Cissbury looking for the Great Grey Shrike sparked into action when DS found it in the SW co...
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birding never sleeps: Strugling with Cuckmere gulls (24 & 26 November)
Wednesday 27 November . Another grim looking day, I took Cookie to Brooklands where between showers an excellent Cetti's Warbler , Chiffch...
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birding never sleeps: NORWAY 2016: Oulu to Varangerfjord (22-28 May)
This post covers the first part of a trip Megan and I made to Northern Norway and Finland. On Sunday 22 May we flew from Gatwick to Helsink...
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birding never sleeps: December 2021
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birding never sleeps: August in Sussex ends on a relative high
Friday 31 August. Finally a day devoted to birding. DB took me to Seaford where we parked at the barn and spent several hours in Hope Gap b...
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birding never sleeps: July 1981
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birding never sleeps: April 2026
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birding never sleeps: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 2001: 13-22 April
This is part two of Nick Preston and my Puerto Rico and the Dominion Republic trip. It is based on very scant notebook entries and unreliabl...
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birding never sleeps: GALAPAGOS part 6: San Cristobal (16 May 2025)
Friday 16 May 2025 . SAN CRISTOBAL. We woke off Cerro Brujo on the NW coast of San Cristobal with the impressive Kicker Rock further offshor...
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birding never sleeps: Another Polish Black-headed Gull (5-10 December)
Tuesday 10 December . A visit to Shoreham Fort with Cookie just before high tide produced a roosting Purple Sandpiper , 7 Turnstones and a ...
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birding never sleeps: West Sussex (01-10 September 2025)
Monday 01 September 2025 . Widewater 06:40-08:40, strong WSW, clear. Turnstone 4, Little Gull 1 juvenile W, Common Tern 1W, Gannet 19E a...
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birding never sleeps: TURKEY 5 June 2012: Demirkazik to Birecik
Coming down from the mountain yesterday in the rain Nick and I had unknowingly walked past several Finsch's Wheatears that were seen by Pau...
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birding never sleeps: THAILAND January 1981 (part 2)
This is the concluding part of the blog of my visit to Thailand with Dick Filby, Richard Grimmett, Frank Lambert and Colin Winyard. ...
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birding never sleeps: December 1978
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birding never sleeps: GALAPAGOS part 4: Santiago, Bartolome, North Seymour and Santa Cruz (13-14...
GALAPAGOS part 4: Santiago, Bartolome, North Seymour and Santa Cruz (13-14 May 2025) Tuesday 13 May 2025 . SANTIAGO. I was on deck at 05:55 ...
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birding never sleeps: COLOMBIA 2026 part 1: Bogota, Eastern Andes and Magdalena Valley (19-23...
COLOMBIA 2026 part 1: Bogota, Eastern Andes and Magdalena Valley (19-23 February) Introduction . I visited Colombia in 2014 (see here ). I...
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birding never sleeps: GALAPAGOS part 11: Santa Cruz, Antisana and home (21-23 May 2025)
Wednesday 21 May 2025 . SANTA CRUZ. We arrived at Black Turtle Cove on the north coast of Santa Cruz during the night and had an hour pre-br...