Nick's Birding Blog

Bird-watching notes and bird-related thoughts from the suburbs of North London (and sometimes beyond)…

Sunday, 22 June 2025

Red Kites

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It’s more or less impossible not to see Red Kites flying overhead while driving on the motorways to the west of London these days. These dis...
Thursday, 29 May 2025

Kentish Choughs…?

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I first saw a Chough a few years ago, in Cornwall. These elegant members of the crow family, recognisable by their glossy black plumage and ...
Sunday, 4 May 2025

Swifts and Swallows

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 A trip out to Wiltshire on Thursday for work took me to Lacock, the well-preserved old village that’s owned by the National Trust. While th...
Saturday, 19 April 2025

The Biggest Twitch

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While I do enjoy birding, twitching (the act of travelling a long distance purely in order to see a particular species of bird) has never be...
Sunday, 13 April 2025

The Blue Tit (birds of East Finchley, part 5)

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This little garden bird, several of which I can hear calling to each other as I sit in the garden writing this, has always been one of my fa...
Friday, 4 April 2025

Waders and rewilding in Edinburgh

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This week I went up to Edinburgh for work. Usually I stay in the New Town, which is lovely, but this time (mainly because I drove up rather ...
Monday, 24 March 2025

Coldfall Wood

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At some point last year, I purchased a book called Birdwatching London . Written by David Darrell-Lambert and published in 2018 in associati...
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