Twitching In The Slow Lane

Saturday, 4 October 2025

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker On Isles Of Scilly 50th Anniversary, 4th October 1975

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First-winter male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker , Tresco, Scilly, September 1975 (David Hunt). This Saturday, 4th October 2025, is the 50th anniv...
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Monday, 29 September 2025

Slavonian Grebe, West Kirby Marine Lake 29th September 2025

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A Slavonian Grebe was found last Saturday, 27th September 2025, on West Kirby Marine Lake by local birder John Williams. I traveled over tod...
Sunday, 7 September 2025

A Guide To Garden Birds

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A GUIDE TO GARDEN BIRDS (320kbs-m4a/156mb/67mins) BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 28th July to 1st August 2025 Here's a helpful, practical...
Thursday, 7 August 2025

Discovery - Tooth And Claw: Harpy Eagles

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DISCOVERY - TOOTH AND CLAW: HARPY EAGLES (320kbs-m4a/61mb/26mins) BBC World Service broadcast: 14th July 2025 Named after a beast from Gree...
Monday, 7 July 2025

Great Lives - Charles Darwin

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GREAT LIVES - LORD ADAIR TURNER ON CHARLES DARWIN (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins) BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 13th June 2025 Businessman and acad...
Saturday, 7 June 2025

Great Lives - Emily Williamson, Co-Founder Of The RSPB

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GREAT LIVES - EMILY WILLIAMSON, CO-FOUNDER OF THE RSPB (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins) BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 26th May 2025 For over a hundred yea...
Tuesday, 27 May 2025

Discovery - Wild Inside: The Bearded Vulture

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DISCOVERY - WILD INSIDE: THE BEARDED VULTURE (320kbs-m4a/60mb/26mins) BBC World Service broadcast: 8th April 2024 Ominously called the lamb...
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Neil Simpson
I started birdwatching in 1969. By the mid-1970s I was birding all over the UK looking for rare birds. Throughout the late-1970s & into the mid-1980s (this period also included birding trips abroad to Europe, North Africa, The Middle East, South America & Asia) I continued to twitch, but to a lesser extent in the 1990s. However, from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s I completely phased & didn't really do any birding at all. Since 2008 I've been adding one or two new UK birds a year with a couple of them being lifers. Around September 2014 I started to think about increasing my UK list past 400. There are many species I've seen abroad, but not in the UK which are regular visitors. After a bit of research I concluded I could achieve this & more with a dedicated period of twitching over a spring & an autumn. I requested a career break from work for seven months, which was granted. From 1st April until 31st October 2015 I'll be chasing anything I need! The journey continues beyond 2015...
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