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The Fillingham Great Grey Shrike and other large grey shrike conundrums including Steppe Grey Shrike a taxonomic bafflement — Graham Catley Photography
From my first retrospective bird at Klondike in Goxhill Marsh on April 2nd 1970 confirmed after vastly improved views of one along the same hedgerow on October 31st 1970, a bird that subsequently wint...
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January 18, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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The current Lincs Great Grey Shrike - its set me off working on a past Great Grey encounters blog - sadly seem to be fewer and fewer every winter - in 1974-75 from UEA base we had a minimum of 11 different individuals and may I say none of them actually twitched
January 14, 2026 at 5:38 PM
The current Lincs Great Grey Shrike - its set me off working on a past Great Grey encounters blog - sadly seem to be fewer and fewer every winter - in 1974-75 from UEA base we had a minimum of 11 different individuals and may I say none of them actually twitched
You have to do something on wet days www.grahamcatley.com/blog-1/2026-...
2026 what to do birding wise and reflections on bird finding — Graham Catley Photography
More of the same I guess is what springs to mind immediately but as we all are very much aware birding is not what it was 50 years ago or even 30 years ago for so many diverse reasons. My addiction to...
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January 11, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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Local male Marsh Harrier in low winter sun: that eye
January 9, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Local male Marsh Harrier in low winter sun: that eye
Ending the year on a small photo high - got out of the car and saw a Woodcock coming our way in beautiful light - brain eye camera coordination initially failed but clicked into gear in time for a few nice images to end 2025
December 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Ending the year on a small photo high - got out of the car and saw a Woodcock coming our way in beautiful light - brain eye camera coordination initially failed but clicked into gear in time for a few nice images to end 2025
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The Manton Collared (Turtle) Dove — 73 years on it is time to set right a miscarriage of justice — Graham Catley Photography
In mid-May 1952 Britain’s first Collared Dove, then known as the Collared Turtle Dove, was found feeding in a chicken run at Manton North Lincolnshire. As noted in the article in British Birds linked ...
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December 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Returning from a foggy 6 mile very quiet Ancholme walk the fog was just breaking around the bridge as I passed a location where a 300mm lens makes a different shot of the oldy Humber Bridge - most people never appreciate the curve
December 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Returning from a foggy 6 mile very quiet Ancholme walk the fog was just breaking around the bridge as I passed a location where a 300mm lens makes a different shot of the oldy Humber Bridge - most people never appreciate the curve
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Three Suffolk Shrikes - I have a signed, limited edition giclee print of a painting of the 3 rare shrikes in Suffolk this autumn (Isabelline, Turkestan and Brown). Just 50 available and only £50 window mounted (add £12 for P&P): PM me if interested and please repost, thanks
December 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Three Suffolk Shrikes - I have a signed, limited edition giclee print of a painting of the 3 rare shrikes in Suffolk this autumn (Isabelline, Turkestan and Brown). Just 50 available and only £50 window mounted (add £12 for P&P): PM me if interested and please repost, thanks
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British schools it strikes me are totally devoid of nature related classes no wonder we are the most nature deprived country with no hope for future generations -
British schools it strikes me are totally devoid of nature related classes no wonder we are the most nature deprived country with no hope for future generations -
Visit to UWC (United World College) Changshu
Whenever I receive an invitation to speak at a school, it’s almost impossible for me to refuse. It’s so important to engage with students on the nature agenda. Not only because they are the decisio…
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December 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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British schools it strikes me are totally devoid of nature related classes no wonder we are the most nature deprived country with no hope for future generations -
British schools it strikes me are totally devoid of nature related classes no wonder we are the most nature deprived country with no hope for future generations -
Images and some musings on Eastern Black Redstarts and the Lincolnshire connections @lincsbirding.bsky.social www.grahamcatley.com/blog-1/msuaxblqlk8udyg3obugjhmkz8f6hg
Eastern Black Redstarts and the Lincolnshire connections — Graham Catley Photography
On November 28th 2025 I went to Scarborough not for fish and chips, ice cream or a Walrus but to try and see a first winter male Eastern Black Redstart found by exported Lincs’ birder Ben Ward. Arrivi...
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December 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Images and some musings on Eastern Black Redstarts and the Lincolnshire connections @lincsbirding.bsky.social www.grahamcatley.com/blog-1/msuaxblqlk8udyg3obugjhmkz8f6hg
A few more standard Eastern Black Redstart images - Filey December 2025
December 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
A few more standard Eastern Black Redstart images - Filey December 2025
Working on a major blog on Eastern Black Redstarts and the Lincolnshire connection but still ongoing - link when done - for now inspired by the Filey bird on Monday - and how did I manage to take 6000 images in one short winter day
December 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Working on a major blog on Eastern Black Redstarts and the Lincolnshire connection but still ongoing - link when done - for now inspired by the Filey bird on Monday - and how did I manage to take 6000 images in one short winter day
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My God! Look at that! 😱 #birdID
@birdsaroundcyprus LCA sewage works Pallas’s Gull 1st winter bird 6 Dec 25. #cyprusbirds
December 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
My God! Look at that! 😱 #birdID
www.grahamcatley.com/blog-1/shore... new blog on the iconic Shore Lark
Shore Larks — Graham Catley Photography
This week I travelled to Theddlethorpe to take in the three Shore Larks located earlier and although the day was usually dull there were some epic skies and the birds were a joy as usual. I have taken...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
www.grahamcatley.com/blog-1/shore... new blog on the iconic Shore Lark
Ever wondered what an Eastern Black Redstart looks like in torrential rain and hail
November 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Ever wondered what an Eastern Black Redstart looks like in torrential rain and hail
www.grahamcatley.com/blog-1/eastern-phylloscopus-warblers-some-ramblings-and-images can anyone remember when you last saw someone hitch hiking? It just seemed to fade away - recall sometimes standing in a queue at major junctions with a different desrtination board
Eastern Phylloscopus Warblers - a ramble through time — Graham Catley Photography
Musing on my worst autumn ever and dreaming of eastern sprites I wandered back to my Yellow-browed Warbler history; a quick check revealed that I had seen a total of 214 in Britain with 118 of these h...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
www.grahamcatley.com/blog-1/eastern-phylloscopus-warblers-some-ramblings-and-images can anyone remember when you last saw someone hitch hiking? It just seemed to fade away - recall sometimes standing in a queue at major junctions with a different desrtination board
Images of the sad looking Little Bittern up north today encouraged me to jump back to Tichwell September 2011 - Identified by Mr K D Durose I recall
November 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Images of the sad looking Little Bittern up north today encouraged me to jump back to Tichwell September 2011 - Identified by Mr K D Durose I recall
Compare these images with those of L l melanuroides from Japan www.instagram.com/reel/DOuYs0A... - images taken N Lincs August 21sta nd 29th 2010 and suggested at the time as L l m by RM at B World but mag folded before it was moved forward - forgot it until seeing images linked above -
November 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Compare these images with those of L l melanuroides from Japan www.instagram.com/reel/DOuYs0A... - images taken N Lincs August 21sta nd 29th 2010 and suggested at the time as L l m by RM at B World but mag folded before it was moved forward - forgot it until seeing images linked above -
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A video from earlier in the autumn during some particularly heavy Pheasant migration in Highland! #highlandbirds
November 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A video from earlier in the autumn during some particularly heavy Pheasant migration in Highland! #highlandbirds
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Plenty of Bullfinch images and thoughts
Plenty of Bullfinch images and thoughts
November 2025 — Graham Catley Photography
As the autumn draws to a close with so few birds the worst East coast autumn ever will there still be a late arrival? Well not this week by the look of the charts so concentrating on the local patch a...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Plenty of Bullfinch images and thoughts
Plenty of Bullfinch images and thoughts
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Official data from government of British Columbia, along with satellite monitoring, backs claims that a Canadian subsidiary owned by Drax sourced 250-year-old trees to manufacture biomass pellets as recently as this year
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Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
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November 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Official data from government of British Columbia, along with satellite monitoring, backs claims that a Canadian subsidiary owned by Drax sourced 250-year-old trees to manufacture biomass pellets as recently as this year
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Real wildlife laws unlike feudal Britain
4 Northern Bald Ibis were killed with an air rifle in Extremadura in 2019. Covid caused issues with the police investigation, but they continues & last month the guilty party was sentenced, 1 year prison term, banned from hunting & fishing for 3 years & a 20,000Euro fine. @raptorpersuk.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Real wildlife laws unlike feudal Britain
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In light of this years events we were probably wrong to dismiss the chance of two birds having been at Donna Nook last October: found nearly 3 miles apart but dismissed on grounds or rarity status
In light of this years events we were probably wrong to dismiss the chance of two birds having been at Donna Nook last October: found nearly 3 miles apart but dismissed on grounds or rarity status
October 25th 2024 – the last chance saloon. — Graham Catley Photography
Having always been more inspired by trying to find birds than looking at other people’s Lincolnshire has been a good location for me and in the course of my 56 years’ birding forays I have managed to ...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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In light of this years events we were probably wrong to dismiss the chance of two birds having been at Donna Nook last October: found nearly 3 miles apart but dismissed on grounds or rarity status
In light of this years events we were probably wrong to dismiss the chance of two birds having been at Donna Nook last October: found nearly 3 miles apart but dismissed on grounds or rarity status
If you are a birder and haven’t read this book make sure to get a copy and enjoy the writing and the analyses and succinct summaries of bird migration:
November 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
If you are a birder and haven’t read this book make sure to get a copy and enjoy the writing and the analyses and succinct summaries of bird migration:
Wonder how many of these are still around
November 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Wonder how many of these are still around