Writer, editor, and communications and content expert. Especially interested in wildlife and mental health. Doodler, birder, dad and pun enthusiast.
York, England
Joined August 2010
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Today's my first anniversary of being self-employed! Huge thanks to all my lovely, brilliant clients for making this a successful and enjoyable first year. Here's a blog post about it, along with some birding highlights. dippyman.wordpress.com/2023/…
I went on a trip down memory lane with this story in the new November issue of @BirdWatchingMag, featuring snipe, sanderlings, spotted flycatchers, yellowhammers and a dog called Smartie...
Both pectoral sandpipers on the Western Reedbed about half an hour ago, one showing well, then this bittern at the Eastern Reedbed crossroads @RSPBAireValley @BirdGuides @SwillyIngsBG
Both pectoral sandpipers on the Western Reedbed about half an hour ago, one showing well, then this bittern at the Eastern Reedbed crossroads @RSPBAireValley @BirdGuides @SwillyIngsBG
Today's my first anniversary of being self-employed! Huge thanks to all my lovely, brilliant clients for making this a successful and enjoyable first year. Here's a blog post about it, along with some birding highlights. dippyman.wordpress.com/2023/…
Little stint just popped up again on the smallest island on Astley Lake at St Aidan's with a ringed plover @RSPBAireValley @SwillyIngsBG @BirdGuides
Always worth a visit to @YorksWildlife Askham Bog. So lucky to have it just up the road. Today's highlights: garden warbler & female blackcap by the pond + great spotted woodpecker. Soundtrack of song thrush, chiffchaffs, willow warblers, blackbirds, robins & wrens @YorkBirding
Terry and Julie, our regular collared doves, on the window feeder. Don't ask me which one's Terry and which is Julie though...
Beautiful morning for a quick walk at North Duffield Carrs @LDV_NNR Skylarks and chiffchaffs singing, blossom looking stunning, pair of bullfinches + strong duck line-up, starring 8 or more pairs of pintail. @YorkBirding
Today the American wigeon near East Cottingwith was much more obliging (and actually there, which helped). Pic taken at around 2.20pm today.
@YorkBirding @BirdGuides
Waited a lot of winters for one of these! Iceland gull at Haverton Hill, still here at 3.20pm. Absolute beauty! Huge thanks @fosterian1971 and the gent I was chatting to here this morning for such helpful tips on the site and timings. @BirdGuides @teesbirds1
Red-crested pochard taking a break from his power nap at @RSPBAireValley St Aidan's just now @BirdGuides Easy to find from visitor centre - on Bowers Lake.
You can watch now on @BBCiPlayer bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
Just after 18 mins
You might have seen a lovely piece about the Tyne Derwent Way, Dunston Staiths and urban nature in Gateshead on @BBCTheOneShow tonight. I have the pleasure of working with this great team on this fantastic project! Find out more at tynederwentway.co.uk/
You might have seen a lovely piece about the Tyne Derwent Way, Dunston Staiths and urban nature in Gateshead on @BBCTheOneShow tonight. I have the pleasure of working with this great team on this fantastic project! Find out more at tynederwentway.co.uk/
I've just set myself up on Bluesky. Might see you on there? bsky.app/profile/paulbrook76…
Not the best video you'll ever see, but here's some shaky footage of the pectoral sandpiper at @NosterfieldLNR Flask Lake yesterday afternoon, surrounded by lapwings.
My grandad used to say 13 was his lucky number, so I adopted it myself. It proved successful today. After going round the wrong part of @NosterfieldLNR & eventually finding Flask Lake, I finally got my first pectoral sandpiper from this very spot as dusk approached @BirdGuides
It was well hidden at first among all the lapwings, golden plovers, black-headed and common gulls, then did a telltale sandpiper sprint into the open.
My grandad used to say 13 was his lucky number, so I adopted it myself. It proved successful today. After going round the wrong part of @NosterfieldLNR & eventually finding Flask Lake, I finally got my first pectoral sandpiper from this very spot as dusk approached @BirdGuides