2017 Travel Review

 Travel was fairly limited in 2017 due to an unexpected arrival by a White Stork in 2016 (incredulously Jacob's conception was around the time of last year's White Stork at Beddington). However was keen to start off as we mean to continue and managed to get in a trip to Ghana (where I would like to set up a regular little winter project) in the early part of the year and then we did a few short trips with Jacob in the campervan (aka the mobile obs) through the year. Jacob did his first camping trip when he was six weeks and his first foreign trip (to France) at six months.

GHANA, JANUARY 2017 TRIP REPORT HERE

 Black Bee-eater

 Red-billed Helmet Shrike

 Black Dwarf Hornbill 

White-throated Bee-eater 

 Pel's Anamolure

Operation Pangolin (click on FB symbol- viewing requires an active FB account) 

Dark Blue Pansy

Blue Diadem

Black Spotted Ciliate Blue

 The 2017 Wise Birding Ghana Crew
TRIP REPORT HERE

TRIP TO DEVON/ BEAVER TWITCH

Mission successful 

The first manifestation of the mobile obs and camp

TRIP TO ARUNDEL/ SUSSEX

Upgrade on the mobile obs and camp (planning some longer trips in 2018 across Europe and hopefully in the future to far flung parts of the WP). 

 Nothochrysa fulviceps- Caught on the light trap near Arundel. A relatively scarce species of lacewing in the UK. 

 The River Arun at Arundel

TRIP TO FRANCE

Wetlands near Baie de Somme

Spoonbills 

Grey Partridge

Natterjack Toad 

A few marine species in there 

AND ALSO....

Twitch of the year was to see Steve Gale's Clifden Nonpariel

also did a few days at Rainham (Waxwing at Rainham) 

and finally....the biggest journey of the year has just started