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12th July – Bristol Peregrine Update 2
Peregrines again? Afraid so! Apologies if Brandon Hill Nature Blog has turned into Bristol Peregrine Blog recently, but after spending most of the Winter and early Spring watching the daily (and sometimes nightly) activities of the pair of peregrine falcons that were hunting … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, Birds of prey, Nesting, Photography
Tagged birds, bristol, falcons, peregrine, photography, urban, wildlife
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25th May – Bristol’s Urban Peregrines Update
The last few weeks have been ideal for watching Bristol’s urban peregrines – the sun has been out and both adults have been very active, up and hunting for most of the day. The chicks are obviously old enough now to be … Continue reading
20th May – First fledglings of 2012
Since getting back to the UK and Brandon Hill, it’s been a pretty miserable time weatherwise, but inexorably the season and wildlife pushes forward and after a few interesting Spring migrants passing through the park (including siskins, willow and garden … Continue reading
Posted in Amphibians, Audio, Bats, Birds, Birds of prey, Corvids, Damselflies & Dragonflies, Foxes, Mammals, Migration, Nesting, Passerines, Photography
Tagged 45, 55, bats, birds, brandon, bristol, cabot, carrion, common, crow, falco, falcon, greenfinch, hill, leisler's, memorial, migration, nature, new, newt, park, passage, peregrine, peregrinus, photography, pip, pipistrelle, serotine, smooth, soprano, spring, stickleback, study, tower, uk, underwater, urban, wildlife, wills
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17th April – Atlantic Adventure (mostly off topic!)
A close encounter with common dolphins – please watch in HD! I’ve just returned to Bristol after over a month away, most of it spent at sea, aboard The Bessie Ellen – a tall ship built in Plymouth in 1904. … Continue reading
Posted in Amphibians, Birds, Birds of prey, Mammals, Photography, Video
Tagged adventure, atlantic, azores, bessie, birds, brandon, bristol, canaries, castle, classic, common, corys, dolphin, egret, ellen, faial, food, frog, hill, hoopoe, kestrel, little, man, nature, o, palm, park, pass, peregrine, pico, potuguese, sailing, sao jorge, shearwater, ship, spawn, tall, tenerife, tree, underwater, urban, war, wildlife
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Bristol’s Pied Wagtails and Orchard Planting at Brandon Hill
After not seeing a single wagtail at Brandon Hill all Summer, I was glad to see the greys and pieds start to return in the Autumn and white wags bouncing past overhead from Cabot Tower, during the Autumn migration watches. … Continue reading
October 15th – RED ALERT!
Most of my mornings at Brandon Hill over the last couple of weeks have been spent watching for migrating birds from the top of Cabot Tower. Up until recently, it was quite a lonely affair, but since the launch of … Continue reading
September 28th – Birds over Bristol
Over the last couple of weeks I have been busy setting up the Cabot Tower Bird Study Group – an urban visible migration study and raptor watch. I have been increasingly convinced of Brandon Hill’s potential for spotting birds migrating through … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, Birds of prey, Corvids, Migration, Passerines, Photography
Tagged bird, birds, brandon, cabot, group, hill, migration, study, tower, tower 42, uk, visible, wildlife
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