Thanks Steve, it was good to have this chat. You’ve clearly been a very active birder for a considerable period of time. Yes, sometimes I’m surprised (as were some of my teaching colleagues) just how much teaching I also managed to fit into my career!
By the way, I still hold the record for the team seeing the most birds in a day in Oxfordshire, not to mention with the ‘dream team’ too, as we hold the record for the highest number of species recorded in a day in Suffolk!
Roy Marsh
Suffolk BINS – ‘A year in brief – 2012’
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ur Editor, Phil Brown, asked me this time around to incorporate my quarter four review for BINS with a recap of 2012. Now, as many of you know, to call it a year in brief doesn’t really suit my writing style, however, I will endeavour to see if I can keep it down to at least two volumes, tee hee! January – The 1st saw the out of season Hoopoe in Lowestoft, provide the New Year’s day bird race surprise, but for me, mid winter is a fantastic time to enjoy visitors like Waxwings or like this cracking Fieldfare.
Fieldfare, by Eddie Marsh
February – What a month with a Greenland Whitefronted Goose briefly at Gedgrave Marsh, while the 10th produced my first nomination for Bird of the Year (BOTY), a Red-breasted Goose discovered by Will Brame with Brent’s at Felixstowe Ferry.
Red-breasted Goose, by Will Brame
THE HARRIER – December 2012
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