My interest in birds started as a ten year old living in Hertfordshire. Over the years it has been overtaken by fishing, football and golf at various times, but it has always been there in the background. When I moved to one of the country's meccas, Cornwall, five years ago, my interest was re-kindled. I twitch local birds and I'm rubbish at finding my own, the one notable exception being the Hayle Estuary Forster's Tern. This is why my total is relatively low. I'm hoping I can get to three hundred one day. I have tried to hit 200 for the year a couple of times and managed it!
Oxfordshire
United Kingdom
Oxford-based birder, getting out as often as job/family permit, but otherwise enjoying garden birding. No car, so twitching activities limited by how far I can get by bike!
Nottinghamshire
United Kingdom
Been birding since I was a boy (over 50 years) when my Dad used to take me to Dungeness and been birding in Notts since 1975.
Leicestershire
United Kingdom
Ex County recorder for Leics and Rutland. Still think of myself as a Yorkshire birder too despite being down here since 1988.
Birding since I was 15, so about 53 years. World-listing semi-seriously for about 30 years. Have never bothered much about my British life list but apart from that I try and live up to my name.
Enjoy finding stuff for myself and rarely chase after anything except county lifers or WP ticks within easy range (few and far between when you live in Leics)
I've been birding since childhood but only started thinking about listing in 2005, including the occasional twitch within a couple of hours of home (now Surrey). My interest in writing and photography led me to start blogging my trips in 2008, moving on to my current ambitious website, www.wildfuture.co.uk, in 2011. I'm a land management professional and worked for the National Trust, NTS, Wildlife Trusts, RSPB and local government before starting my own consultancy in 2011.
Been birding for 30 yrs only just decided add all the numbers up and list in surrey for the 1st time this yr 2015
North Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Birder and Wildlife Photographer based on the Yorkshire Coast. Director of Yorkshire Coast Nature.
Cornish birder, lives at Paul, Penzance.
Cornish born and bred birder and part time photographer. Started birding in 1974 (age 13) with Truro birders Pete Maker, John Chapple, Royston Wilkins, Jim Dustow and Brian Mellow as my first birding buddies. Main interest and fave birding group is seabirds. Pride myself in finding Fea's Petel, several Wilson's Petrels and co-found Black-browed Albatross with John Chapple (Scillonian) and off Porthgwarra (BK Mellow). Also self found Pechora Pipit (Fair Isle), Radde's Warbler and Black-eared Wheatear (Fair Isle), Bonelli's, Subalpine (Scilly), Arctic Warbler (2nd for Cornwall, Cot 1985), Great White Egret (first for Somerset !!! honest), Pallid Swift Lands End, Semi-palmated Sandpiper (Davidstow), Baird's (Hayle), Bonaparte's Gull Newlyn, six Bee Eater flock (Porthgwarra), Red-rumped Swallow (Marazion) plus a few more over the years.
Birder and outdoor enthusiast from my teens, but angling became my primary outdoor pursuit until recent years when I began looking and listing in more detail. International travel sightings yet to be listed.
Got to number 1 on the combined British/Irish Iist (BOURC/IRBC) by mid-2008. It would be good to see other high combined listers put their list on bubo so their lists can be viewed/scrutinized as well.
On twitter at https://twitter.com/steveawebb1
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I am a birder, and a guide for SE China birdwatching tours
started making bird notes in 2000,descovered internet in 2009,got a telescope in 2010, made a year list effort in 2011 (231),could possibly sign up to being a twitcher in near future.
Warden - RSPB South Essex Marshes
Warwickshire
United Kingdom
In the week a spreadsheet jockey - at weekends a birder and wildlife photographer - and partaker of beer
In the late 1950s and early 1960s I bird-watched with my father (in the picture) and never kept a single list! I took up birding again in 1987, this time in earnest. Most of my birding is done in Essex and Suffolk. My ‘world birding’ is much more restricted nowadays, but between the late 1980s and the late 2000s, I visited: continental Europe; India; SE Asia, including Borneo; Zimbabwe; Ghana; Egypt; Morocco; Trinidad & Tobago; Mexico; Costa Rica; and right across the United States of America, including Alaska. All of this was by independent travel.
