Flood

The Bird hide

Footpath 

The lakes have flooded at the farmlands and are invading the local village. 

Common Gulls

Just a reminder to myself to read all this stuff (below) as soon as I get a chance. Always seeing interesting variation of Common Gulls at the farmlands (like this bird above) and would be good to make some sense of it.
http://gull-research.org/canus/canus5cyjan.html
http://birdingfrontiers.com/2010/12/22/heinei-common-gull/
http://www.talk.gull-research.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=3&start=10

Kittiwake

This Kittiwake did a fly-by this morning.

Stonechats and White-winger

 Female Stonechat

 Male Stonechat

 What's going on with that bill- soiled or aberrant?

Theres a dark spot of p7 and some markings on the primary coverts

Nice bit of light yesterday evening so went looking for the adult Glauc- seemed to have some strange marks, maybe soiling? Looks a bit thin necked and small headed too. More pics here: http://devilbirder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/a-rainy-days-gull-watching.html 

Beryl and Liz- Thee Bryans

Here's another track from the musical story 'Songs of Praise' by thee Bryans. Its a story of the adventures of a young naturalist in the modern world. In this part of the story, the young naturalist, Bryan, sets up his own wildlife gardening company and hopes he can make the world a better place by creating biodiveristy gardens in his neighbourhood- thinking globally by acting locally. However instead of changing the world he gets caught by two lesbians who trap him when he goes round to do a wildlife garden quote and they keep him locked up in the cellar. After years of not returning home to his family they believe he has gone forever and forget about him. However all is not lost because over time one of the lesbians falls in love with him and then together they kill the other lesbian, Bryan has a sex change pretends he is the dead lesbian and lives out his days as a woman called Liz- nobody is any the wiser.

Luckily for Bryan it turns out to be just a strange day dream and then he gets on with planting up his butterfly and bee border.
 

More of this stuff here: www.theebryans.com

Beddington Farmlands in BBC Natural World Documentary

The 'Un-natural History of London' is now on you tube to view. 30 min documentary about the urban wildlife and people of London. It's actually well put together, decent bit of music too (in the original), some good angles and some pretty original stuff. The documentary features Beddington Farmlands, I did a bit for it and it also features other London birders and some interesting London naturalists and Londoners (and  a bit of wildlife). 

Even the mafia won't allow money to be made out of mass bulk incinerators?

Check this out! If the Italians won't have it than there must be something well dodgy with incineration? If the mafia thought incinerators were a good way of making money they would have shot this bloke dead long time ago? It's in english- just a few seconds in Italian at beginning.

I really don't know anything about this side of the campaign as my area is the effect of the incinerator on the biodiversity. However why have the Italians stopped 50 of these things from being built?? Got to be something wrong with them?