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andy looking like scantily clad raver freezing their chebs off on a comedown at a bus stop at 8am we duly force fed him a highly magnified images of the nib til he conceded there were worse things than standing in a freezing easterly unfortunately andy had done such a good job of baby sitting the scaup was in bed fast asleep despite 2 hours of waiting it didn t flap wink or fart eventually draw of passerine migrants overwhelmed us all along with the cold and boredom luckily a local birder papped the flap a short while later helping us clinch this mega first for the county into the anals of time and borders birding legend ish many look down upon aythya for being stupid sex mad idiots incapable of identifying their own kind i prefer to see these horny ducks as leaders in their field they don t mind too much what gender or species you are as long as you re up for some quick cold wet fun this female tufted duck wasn t keen on the great blue billed bugger following it around making burping noises nailed on boy have a peak at the peak peaky peak two hours watching this if you thought i wasn t insane from my previous posts i assume you will reconsider just as well the easterly wind wasnt blasting us face on til our faces came off the loch that the lesser wasn t on well at that time it was subsequently but now i m just getting pedantic nice spot though innum it was late afternoon by the time we hit the head alas the only grip was from the sea of thrift and the biblical influx of diamond backed moth with a dub count of 10 s of 1000 s almost as dense as the fog the soup of water and moth was a sight to behold while a background of seabirds and their associated smells and sounds made for an evocative philosophical moment seabirds maaaaan that shit is wild always big up and respect the species and habitat great to get shagged down the head thrift and rock the way we like it these small copper were getting their aythya on well not quite dirty intra specific copulators get back in the past where you belong i ll bang out a power blog on the my biker bai curiosity in the next post and it ll be frigging high tensile mate bring the donger fencing posted by will scott at 09 48 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 9 june 2019 dub s own pantry dub birder re emerges to enhance your natural urges dub birder is a mystical force that ebbs and flows in and out of the anal of time like a chilli infused muesli i am re emerging with energy and vigor here to bend language and nature with upmost rigor translation hi been a few years blogs are hard sapiens speaking of hard going hard in god s own country this summer surveying inverts and generally filling my boots with landscape level grip also getting into rye and multigrain sour dough breads hard but more on that just before lunch on any day ever what a landscape it is never had the pleasure to work in such a grand place a true grandscape with associated charismatic mega flora and fauna that will defo floor ya i wont be going into chicks with specifics regarding where any of these near conscious experiences take place because its a secret and already archived in the dubrary of my hyper cerebellum like any modern landscape the dales show clear signs of degradation and the ironically termed agricultural improvement while striding abreast a fell top being hectically gusted to the point of sea sickness i often get vivid hallucinogenic intrusions of thought these visions are of mellow u bend lol valleys coated in low density mature woodland open and full of sheltered micro climates abounding with all the ground flora that barely clings to the grazed burnt and wind blasted modern form however from these relic woodland ashes rises the upland pheonix in the form of a safe refuge for breeding waders with some places visited as loud as the most voluptuous dawn chorus or an all encompassing seabird colony filled with bubbling curlew belligerent oycs buzzing redshanks synthesiser snipe drumming grunting woodcocks descending mipits choatic skylark song simplistic golden plover calls and fluting rouzel under toned by the modulating harmonics of black grouse leks that all reverberate around the glacial amphitheatre of the dales landscape a combination of sounds that utterly grip out even the most battle hardened ear canal one man made feature i can live with in most landscapes is a dry stone wall they at the very least mitigate the blustery moorland vibes and help recreate some of the sheltered micro habitats that woodland once provided being an obvious landscape feature they always provide a focal point for a multitude of taxa from lichens to stoat dens from the big to the small if you look closely enough there s a full swath of greasy upland flora to satisfy your wildest herbiphilic fantasies several spots had some epic pansy fests with meadows full of all the colours of the rainbow bar most of the colours of the rainbow nice to w nk off the background landscape perspective to full effect i ve always appreciated and respected lower and higher plants but its a one in one out system in terms of my memory for even their vernacular names so being in the company of some epic botanists i am making a renewed effort to learn assimilate regurgitate their names then i usually need to quickly defibrillate as my heart has exploded with the effort and new grip the more you learn the more you know ha state the oblivious anyways the above are two different mineralised growth forms of mossy saxiphrage found on old mining spoil heaps just a few feet apart such intra specific variation in close proximity seemingly forming distinct colonies could easily be seen as part of an evolutionary event though i made that up on the spot so could be wrong however the genius of dub penetrates so deep into the every florafice i may just make sense what i have dedicated more focussed penetrations of thought is the consequences for insect conservation such obvious variation in how a single species reacts to different growing conditions really crystallises the impacts of human chemicals and habitat structure on insect niches another plant what i did good learn is the marsh marigold phwwwaaar i d wear that in my hands any day seemingly happy with this last year s hot warm and dry weather it has been out in force what a force of yellow it is and not just a pretty facade though proper floral and niche resource check out the green veined white nectaring while a may fly shelters below niche off though i am a leper by and large i m strongly considering becoming a apiphile with fluffy queen bilberry bumblebees nest hunting around me as i do luncheon on the high tops its hard not to feel inspired by their beauty and upland specialism they are almost better in flight so for once being inept having a bridge camera enabled me to jam a flight shot of that bum here s another classic pollinator interaction common carder bee on bugle banging bugle clumps are proving to be an essential early nectar source in the uplands each patch was full of insects i had visceral flashbacks to running around lowland grasslands in my youth focusing on microscopic heterogeneous i knew it then as dffierent patches of thistle ragwort etc as they were equally enticing for insects and their predators one last butterfly a small heath being an upland specialist by hiding in the sheltered sunny side of a tussock of grass on a fell top great strategy for gearing up for the next 10 feet flight here s some of that dry stone wall micro niche action here a sheltered side was utilised by a few male crambus lathoniellus as they fluttered weakly in search of female scent plumes what s more gripping than dry stone wall niches green hairstreak dry stone wall niches come on i added green hair and streak to dry and stone gotta be an improvement the upland green hairstreak populations are proper spin outs using walls as trees and displaying kind of convergent behaviour with grayling by flattening themselves against the dark stone to warm up absolutely mind blowingly beautiful insects and some serious behaviour have a ton more pics fill your boots as if you were getting lepped out here s a mother shipton so called by the similarity of wing markings to the traditional portrayal of a witch as a gnarled old person woman how about this found an emerging fox moth got over excited and id d it as a northern eggar then realised i was a stringy almost bastard and amended my initial id what a furry beast heaving itself out of the mat of tormentil at ground level another mainstay of sunny upland days the common heath check out them feathers one gasp last gasp lep gasp pyrausta purpuralis on cuckoo flower even when they are slightly worn they are just too much for my feverish mind to handle i ll depart in a dust of particulate or particularly beefing uplanders and their habitat and predator what a place get yerself up fun times watching two male cuckoo fight a few feet in front of me this male won saw me then flew a few feet so he could start pumping his noise into my ears at head level on the now infamous dry stoners lapwing chick two chats and their habitat ring ouzel and wheater some magic melodies emanating from these charismatic species that sit well over the basal sound of wader song where there s food stoats are about up here cool to watch a proper predator prey interaction as they search for bird eggs and chicks corrr i m spent thanks for coming i ll be near a beck posted by will scott at 09 23 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 12 march 2016 are you taiko the piss mate dub birder experiencing the ultimate chatgasm aboard the mighty pyramid 10 000 albatross 1 rock throw in some guano and you ve got a porno pic by dan burgin after the echo of new years had just about reverberated out of my cranial stations a new vibration startled the old grey matter a message relatively out the blue offering 5 weeks on the legendary chatham islands volunteering for the infamous chatham island taiko trust if im honest they had me at 5 weeks and so it was thus that i travelled abreast a great ancient steel or alloy ahoy albatross the 800 or so kilometers of arid pacific to the hallowed peaty turf a real place of isolation and lack of development superficially untarnished by humans destructive hand looking wild and rugged as the wilds of scotland or moors of the westcountry an awing beauty but of course like so many places across the planet a misleading one as this was until the arrival of the various forms of people a completely forested island alive with huge abundances of seabird and terrestrial life mostly endemic which soon disappeared with the bush and introduction of mammals and marsupials aka predators competitors as such the work i was involved with echoed much of new zealand s plight predator control or exclusion a really eye opening experience and super rewarding to contribute to knowing every dead possum cat and rat was exponentially benefiting the endemic flora and fauna that in reality has know adaptation or strategy of dealing with these recent introductions however it wasn t all same as with radical translocation projects of species like chatham islands albatross a critically restricted and therefore vulnerable crippling blow your tits off procellariiforme giving me the privileged opportunity to perch on the sharp end of the wedge it s difficult to describe the graft and crippling nature of the work and er nature so here s some pics and garbled verse yo endemic form of the new zealand fantail stonkingly common and charismatic endemic chatham warbler not too dissimilar to the mainland s grey warbler in song but clearly island pressure have transformed the in my opinion dullish grey into a knee cappingly good island hermit chatham island pigeon again similar to the mainland but bigger fatter and brighter check out two tone bill suits you sir despite the latent destructive impression of bareness where whence forest came before it still makes for a rectal tighteningly beautiful vista home to even more mega triple neck spinners chatham island oystercatcher yes endemic again those bright pink legs were divine darling went well with my sunburn dont you know pip pip cup of tea although most of the blue penguins had departed after their post breeding moult this tardy individual provided an excellent opportunity to get reet up in it s grill some believe they are a different subspecies or even full species looks like a normal penguin to me though chatham island pipit fairly distinct from its mainland counterpart however not recognised as such great little birds that had me flinching everytime they called thinking a dick s pip was going over until i remembered i m in new zealand pigs i spent a great deal of time whacking the old bush as it were giggidy enjoying some of this unique habitats residents including red crowned parakeets more specifically the chatham island form totally criptastic birds and radically different from anything native in the uk as such i spent a decent bit of time learning their habits so eventually i may train them to form a super army to eradicate all i see as unfair in the planet it didn t go well however so i contented myself to quietly waiting and watching getting more and more of a feel of there perky little green buggers behaviour and ecology whilst generally getting manic and tarnished by their beauty after a while i realised they were just bloody crossbills with those honking great head spades and all the frass and such that spilt to the ground funny to similarities you subjectively draw between vastly different birds bluer than david carmeron s lobotomized ballsack with camp set amongst the rolling paddocks of the legendary bruce and lizz tuanui farm it was not uncommon for to see the odd cow or sheep or lapwing ps might be a sheep the hallowed predator fence truly epic achievement by the most dedicated of conservationists soon to be teeming with tubenoses big and small whilst hyper restricted landbirds grovel within its protected confines perhaps the moment i was most excited about was the chance to walk between chatham albatross on their only colony the pyramid the purpose besides shear sexual stimulation and bohemian pleasure was to translocate chicks to form a satellite colony in the newly predator fenced area on main chatham so all eggs weren t in the same basket per se beautiful calm conditions dominated our skin for weeks for that persistent sw swell finally died enough to facilitate landing and removing chicks safely a very long day but without a doubt one of my best check dem picture word two time sisters and brothers get in a boat see buller s albatross fantastic little alberts that stayed with us for most of the journey southern coastline of main chatham complete with fogfall in the uk these may be gannets but this is the chathams and they albatross g a huge swell an...