East Sussex
United Kingdom
My mum bought me Witherby's Popular Handbook to British Birds for my 12th birthday in 1967. We were on holiday on the shores of Loch Carron, the first bird I used it to identify was an Oystercatcher.
In the 70's I was a regular at Spurn Bird Observatory, where Barry Spence showed me my first Death's Head Hawk-moth.
In the 80's I became the chair of trustees at Dungeness Bird Observatory.
Work took over for a while and, on retiring, I didn't want to 'go back'. So, I decided to be a Gilbert White wannabee instead and take an interest in everything.
This year (2024) saw me do three FSC courses, volunteer for the SWT, and survey moths regularly at 3 reserves. Plus the Bioscan and Nocturnal Parasitoids projects.
So, if you bump into an eccentric old gimmer with a campervan, scratching around in a hedge bottom somewhere in Sussex looking confused, that might well be me.
I have been birding all my life.
Worcestershire
United Kingdom
A young Birder from the Midlands, Low lister, Patch Worker, and local Twitcher.
Birding since January 1992 from garden birding - then branched out to the local cemetery then my 1st real patch at Pegwell Bay in east Kent with weekend visits to Stodmarsh NNR. Then in autumn 1993 started twitching in different parts of Kent inc the Marsh Sand at Cliffe being my 1st twitch then the Isabelline Shrike at Sandwich Bay in Oct 93.
North Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Keen semi pro-photographer and average birder with 5 years experience
Just a guy trying to see as many species as possible
