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Rhonda Fleming, Technicolor star of the 1940s and 50s, has died aged 97. Her assistant announced her death, saying that she had been hospitalised with pneumonia about a week. She starred in about 40 movies during Hollywood’s golden age, and was one of …

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 As it was not clear where the Lammergeier had roosted, I started the day looking for scarce finches etc at Castor Hanglands NNR, just west of Peterborough. Immediately, it was obvious that Redwings were on the move. In the first 2.5 hours I was t…

 I was back at Ferry Meadows this morning, vis migging. There was the start of a decent east-west movement of Woodpigeons, plus more Redwing movement (less than yesterday). Key counts were:Woodpigeon, 750Redwing, 220Starling, 170,Snipe, 2,Siskin, 50

 I arrived at the Nene Terrace site at first light, this morning, to see at least 30 cars already there and a crowd gathered near the Lammergeier tree. I set myself where I had been the previous evening and awaited sunrise. The vulture left the r…

 I started the day at the Lincolnshire village of Cowbit. The reason I was there is the Lammergeier had chosen to roost on a Rook’s nest in an Ash tree just on the north edge of the village, and I knew it would be still there at first light. So, I…

 Lammergeier, south of Moulton Chapel, Lincolnshire, 8.10.20The Radde’s Warbler business at the beginning of the week was pretty darn hectic. But last night’s news took the biscuit! It emerged via all sorts of convoluted social media routes, that …

 Once more I was in position at Radde’s HQ, Peakirk, at first light. A Barn Owl was easily the best bird, though (and, by the way, I did return last night, and failed to see or hear it again). In the evenign I checked out Deeping Lakes, and apart …

 Yes, it was a Radde’s vigil at dawn this morning. Very soon after I arrived I heard the warbler calling on the west side of The Folly, exactly where Jonathan Taylor had seen it on Sunday. Approaching 8am, the bird appeared, creeping along the fol…

 Today was a strange one. I started as usual, attempting to record vis mig birds. But, it wasn’t long, after a lovely quiet start (with hardly a peep out of the distant traffic), that the park filled up with marathon runners and swim-run athletes …

 Naturally, at first light (in fact while it was still dark), i was at the site of the Radde’s Warbler (a bird I had never seen) on the banks of the channel called The Folly, which flows into the Maxey Cut of the River Welland. A few other birders…

 I had a late start (owing to excessive rain, and trying to sort out a power cut which wasn’t our fault) and tried to see if anything had dropped in at Deeping Lakes, today. But, by the time I reached the site, the reported three Shelducks, Dunlin…

 This morning saw me back in the FMCP saddle, on my favourite viewing platform, chewing the fat with the locals and feeling that more should really be migrating over. But it wasn’t, just the usual trickle of Meadow Pipits and a handful of Swallows.

My phone (which is also my alarm) crashed in the night, so I missed the window to go vis migging at Ferry Meadows this morning. Compensation came with a nice Chiffchaff in our garden later in the day, while I was enjoying a cuppa and dreaming of Yellow…

 Today was a terrible day of ‘dipping’ which is birding parlance for failing to see birds! It started in the rainy morning, when my friend Don Gardener (Mr Ferry Meadows) phoned me to tell me he had 25 Common Scoters on Overton Lake FMCP. I cycled…

 The Meadow Pipits were trickling through in slightly increased numbers at Ferry Meadows, this morning, before work. Nothing spectacular (if Meadow Pipits can ever be described as such), but a more or less steady drip of groups of three or so pass…

At Ferry Meadows CP, this morning, we saw our first Redwings of the autumn, with a flock of 7 flying along the distant ridge on the hill above Castor village. I expect more to say the least, in the coming weeks.In the evening, I went to Tanholt Pits in…

I had a brief check of the Welland along the Deeping High Bank in the late morning. The best thing was a flock of about 1,000 Golden Plovers, hanging out in the ploughed fields with Lapwings. They were very flighty, but are going to need some work to t…

 Early this morning, I met my friend Hugh Wright for a bit of overland ‘seawatching’ from Ring’s End/Guyhirn. It is the one place I hope to see seabirds in the Peterborough area, being at the furthest east of the official Peterborough Bird Club (P…

 It was a quiet morning at Ferry Meadows CP ‘vis migging’, though the NW winds held a bit of promise. Sometimes NW winds can bring birds from the North Sea/The Wash, cutting across the wind. At lunchtime, I drove down to a viewpoint along the Rive…

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 I recorded about 30 species this morning at my Ferry Meadows CP watchpoint, including the first Chaffinch I have had apparently migrating, this autumn. Other ‘highlights’ included a steady if trickle of small groups of Meadow Pipits (at least rea…

 This morning when I woke up I found a tweet telling me that my friend David Chambers had found a couple of juvenile Little Stints at what we call Tanholt Pits, south of the village of Eye, just east of Peterborough. So, instead of vis migging thi…