Gloucestershire naturalist now based in Cambridgeshire monitoring the wildlife of RSPB Hope Farm.
West Sussex
United Kingdom
Based in West Sussex, slowly but surely building up my PSL list, still a lot to learn but I'm interested in everything!
Always been a birder, but also very keen on plants, dragonflies, lepidoptera and macro fungi.
Greater London
United Kingdom
Masters student at Kew Gardens studying Plant and Fungal Taxonomy, Diversity and Conservation
Enjoy local patchwork and twitch occasionally.
I have been studying natural history for some 35 years, 23 in a professional capacity. I am now a freelance entomologist/ecologist based in the south east after working for wildlife charities for nearly 20 years. I am the county recorder for Heteroptera and spiders in both Sussex counties. My main areas of interest are spiders, bugs, beetles, bees, moths, rock-pooling etc and a lot of my spare time is spent in the field. I manage a database of over quarter of a million records, have been a driving force in the PSL community from the start, involved with both websites, the Facebook group and I'm currently writing a book on it all.
Leicestershire
United Kingdom
Early career entomologist, most interested in Aculeates!
Isle of Wight
United Kingdom
11/06/2024. Garden list 1838
Founder member of BUBO with Messrs. Musgrove, Prince, Lawlor and Fuller. Still trying to find a mega at my local patch, Inchgarth Reservoir (Aberdeen), where a biggie is long overdue, but 2008 patch ticks included Hobby, Barn Owl, Shelduck, R-T Diver and Canada Goose! Family and molecular biology commitments preclude excessive twitching but recent UK additions include White-crowned Sparrow, Audouin's Gull, Cretzschmar's Bunting, Steppe Grey Shrike and Glaucous-winged Gull.
Birder, Twitcher, passionate about Seawatching and especially Shearwaters, loves Nature overall and has a side hobby of Art and Photography
Northumberland
United Kingdom
28, Northumberland Birder, mainly patch and county birding but like the odd twitch...
Birder, Zoology student at University of Exeter, star of #BadLuckBirder
Birding since childhood, new to listing.
Formal listing and record keeping began on 16 Jun 2022.
Instagram: @through_my_scope
eBird: jamsydodger
I'm a Norwich based birder and all-round naturalist, predominantly recording in Norfolk but occasionally elsewhere in Britain. My local patch is Whitlingham Country Park. Aside from birds my main interests include butterflies, fungi and hemiptera. I'm currently the Norfolk county recorder for Psylloidae.
16 year old birder lucky enough to travel often to some pretty great birding locations.
I am 60 (something) and unashamedly a diehard birder. My father cultivated an interest in all things pertaining to the natural world, particularly birds, from early childhood. My initial discoveries, from flowers to butterflies, were logged in I-Spy books. I also started to keep a personal diary of my ornithological observations from aged 11. Curiosity was converted to a life long avian passion when I saw a family of Redstarts in a local wood. I did not have a proper field guide then and identified the species from looking through a Brook Bond tea card album! I thought (and still do) that the male was the most beautiful of British birds. My ornithological "apprenticeship" developed steadily, through field excursions; family holidays; local patch coverage; census work; submitting my sightings to various bird reports. My first successful rarity "twitch" was a Solitary Sandpiper in my home county of Essex during 1974. With Greater Yellowlegs and Sociable Plover the following year, rarity chasing, from Shetland to Scilly, has continued apace ever since. More recently, I have done a lot more birding globally, particularly in the Far East.
Lifelong, but still intermediate level birder, more recently expanded to Pan-listing. Never cease to be amazed what can be discovered within walking distance of home.
Greater manchester
United Kingdom
Young birder, photographer and wildlife enthusiast
East Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Long-time birder, but brand new PSLer as of late 2023, historical ticks where I know about them (photos, notes etc.).
Seen many more species, but unless I can find evidence for dates - I'll have to refind them!
Semi-retired Biology teacher and amateur naturalist
Ever since I bought my first bins in 1967, my focus has been volunteer surveys - by which ordinary observations, almost useless on their own, become priceless when combined on the wider scale. For 43 years I worked as a survey organiser for BTO and am now simply a volunteer again. Twitching fits around my survey and ringing activities. I'm most interested in my British lists by month.
Remember a Waxwing in our Newcastle-under-Lyme garden in what must have been the 1970 invasion. Been keeping birding notes since 1974, twitching regularly from 1979 until 2019 but now almost never. Now mainly local botany, birding and invertebrate bothering in VC40 where somehow ended up as bird and joint plant recorder.
Staffordshire
United Kingdom
Librarian, classical music aficionado and intermittent birder (with surely the lowest British list of anyone who started in 1968)
