I should start by saying congratulations to my sister, Kate, who on Monday graduated with a Masters degree in Pharmacy.
And congratulations to Kate's boyfriend, Anthony, who — making sure he stays one step ahead of Kate — was awarded his postgraduate clinical diploma.
On Wednesday I went to the Butterfly Conservation Big Butterfly Count launch at London Zoo. And look who I bumped into:
It's an awful photos... but still, omg, it's Sir David Attenborough.
And here's the short video I made. You might want to turn the sound up; he's not the sort of guy who shouts.
Yesterday, back in the northwest, I met up with Alex Jones at Burton Mere Wetland — the first I've been to the site. It was nice, though there weren't many birds... A flock of Black-tailed Godwits, a load of Little Egrets, but precious little else.
This morning I joined David Norman and others to help out at the Oxmoor LNR ringing demo. It went well, not least thanks to two Kingfishers (the same two from last weekend, in fact); Kingfishers always go down well with the crowd!
And I guess I can't finish without mentioning this. I headed down to Pickerings Pasture this evening, my theory being that godwits are often on the estuary at low tide and that — given I've seen e.g. dodgy shelduck hybrids at Frodsham and later off Pickerings Pasture —they're likely (some of) the same godwits that roost on number 6 tank. The tide was in a bit higher than I'd anticipated and so only the far sandbanks were exposed; even so, the theory kinda worked... there were 16 islandica Black-tailed Godwits along the water's edge. No Hudsonian Godwits, though. Nor any 2cy female limosa for that matter. Oh, damn, I've gone and really put my neck on the line now.
This morning I joined David Norman and others to help out at the Oxmoor LNR ringing demo. It went well, not least thanks to two Kingfishers (the same two from last weekend, in fact); Kingfishers always go down well with the crowd!
And I guess I can't finish without mentioning this. I headed down to Pickerings Pasture this evening, my theory being that godwits are often on the estuary at low tide and that — given I've seen e.g. dodgy shelduck hybrids at Frodsham and later off Pickerings Pasture —they're likely (some of) the same godwits that roost on number 6 tank. The tide was in a bit higher than I'd anticipated and so only the far sandbanks were exposed; even so, the theory kinda worked... there were 16 islandica Black-tailed Godwits along the water's edge. No Hudsonian Godwits, though. Nor any 2cy female limosa for that matter. Oh, damn, I've gone and really put my neck on the line now.
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