Tag: Bird migration

• March madness

  Before I venture into the mayhem of March 2013, I must apologise for missing out the first Butterfly emergence of the year. This appeared in the form of a Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta). Find a splendid example of this beauty below, from Finn Holding’s The Naturephile Flickr account. *Finn Holding’s website is one of several, my readers might […]

  Tony

  April 6, 2013

  my calendar

  Bird migration, birds, butterflies, Citizen science, climate, climate change, March, phenology, seasons, weather

• Predicting spring and summer weather, sun or soak? according to the birds…

  Having previously mentioned here, my passion for tracking Europe’s returning African visitors, I recently attempted an analysis of the latest data from the Gibraltar region. To do this, I reviewed a spreadsheet, set up in previous years that use the First dates of migrant bird sightings, sourced from Gibraltar Ornithological & Natural History Society. Having gone through my seven randomly chosen bird species’ arrival dates (on return […]

  Tony

  March 28, 2012

  birding, phenology, weather

  Africa, Autumn, Bird migration, Bird news, Birdguides, Birding, birds, Blackcap, Citizen science, climate, climate change, Cuckoo, Europe, Gibraltar, Gibraltar Ornithological & Natural History Society, Hoopoe, Met Office, migrants, migration, Night Heron, Northern Wheatear, Ornithology, phenology, research, seasons, spring, summer, weather, Willow Warbler

• “All eyes to the South” once the snow clears

  Today has been a mix of wet snowflakes and cold sleety rain. Temperatures, which had been falling earlier, are now on the rise, so I am somewhat glad to be indoors. Now that the official winter climate statistics are in, it is time to have a look back at how the season fared. This is achievable courtesy of this link – here. My figures tie in […]

  Tony

  March 4, 2012

  birding, Environmental, my calendar, news, weather

  Barn Swallow, Bird migration, climate, climate change, Ecosystems, England, environment, Equinox, Hoopoe, Ornithology, Osprey, Planning Regulations, Politics, Rain, Sand Martin, seasons, Snow, Stone-curlew, united kingdom, weather