by Dominic | Jan 2, 2018 | Longham Lakes, News
26th February A Long-tailed Tit was found dead in a garden adjoining Longham Lakes yesterday. The bird was ringed on-site by Roger Peart, with the following details: Ringed 13/08/2016 1900hrs, one of 8 LTTs ringed that evening. Two of those LTTs were re-trapped the...
by Dominic | Dec 17, 2017 | News
Totally delighted to have TWO books in the Guardian’s round-up of best nature books of the year: “Songs of Love and War” and “Britain’s Mammals”. Makes the hard work worthwhile. Britain’s Mammals is also ‘book of the month’ in...
by Dominic | Dec 4, 2017 | Longham Lakes
THE YEAR 2017 in review at Longham Lakes, Dorset This year has been fantastic in just about every aspect for this site, for birding and wildlife-watching generally. The total of 134 species of birds is a record, just, but it was the quality that stood out, and a nice...
by Dominic | Sep 2, 2017 | Longham Lakes
26th November I heard last week of another ‘control’ of one of the Longham birds. Not a great movement but good to hear of it again – details below. Strictly it shouldn’t be a control as it was caught less than 5km from the ringing location – so officially it is a...
by Dominic | Jul 2, 2017 | Nature Writing, News, Trip Reports
Here’s something a little different from your usual bird reports… I have taken my son Samuel up Snowdon a couple of times so, with the spring half term approaching this year, we decided it was time to launch on assault on the other peaks that make up the...
