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 For the 2nd year I was lucky to co-lead a tour to Bulgaria with the main aim being the dragonflies and damselflies found in the Country.

We saw far too many to post all of them here, with 50 species seen we saw nearly all our main targets, as well as over 90 species of butterflies.


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 Our final two days of our early summer trip were spent at Elmley and then Blean woods. Unfortunately, both these days involved more rain and strong breeze.

The Elmley day it didn't matter quite so much, although I was hoping for some rarer day flying moths, which obviously didn't happen. However, the drive al...


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Subbuteo.

 When I was a young lad I used to love playing Subbuteo with my friends, a table top football game. What I didn't realise at the time was that the inventor of the game was a very keen birdwatcher, and after not being able to call the game 'Hobby', which was his first choice but was not allowed due to patent issues, he decided to call it Subbut...


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 After visiting Glapthorn on our way to Yorkshire and seeing lots of Black Hairstreak, we had the idea of perhaps visiting another great site that I had heard about, on our return journey, which was also going to incorporate staying in Norfolk, Suffolk and Kent. Yes, we were not in a hurry to get home, and we wanted to make the most of our tri...


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As well as the many Gannets at Bempton, there is a good showing of other seabirds. Although I have a good local colony of both Kittiwake and Fulmar, they are not as easy to get close to at home, as they are on the cliffs of Bempton.
With the birds nesting so close it is very easy to get some half decent images.



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