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Month: November 2016

Out all day birding and the craic was good

Apologies to Van Morrison for pinching some lyrics from his song “Coney Island” for the title of this post but it seems appropriate in the circumstances. My friend and fellow birder Ant who works in the music industry has been

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Artwork for sale

As it coming up to Christmas etc. I’ve put a selection of paintings from this year up for sale on my website . Feel free to drop by and have a look and send me a mail if you’re interested

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Where is Albert Ross ?

7th – 11th November 2016, an interesting, if somewhat frustrating week ! A couple of visits to my local patch produced nothing so I decided to venture a little further afield on Wednesday 9th. Reasonably nice conditions prompted me to

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Avocets

The other day while carrying out some counts at Paimboeuf on the Loire estuary I spent some moments watching these Avocets feeding on the mud. It was interesting to see how they swished their bills from side to side, quite

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My local patch

Situated east of the town of Donges in the Loire-Atlantique departement and squeezed between the village of Assac, a railway line, an industrial area with oil refinery and a large reedbed is an area known as La Jallais. A drivable

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Bunting hunting

During the past week I’ve visited my local patch nearly every day and continued to put down some seeds in the hope of attracting more buntings to an area along the main track that they seems to favour. Numbers of

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