Starting birding when I was 6 and could hold a pair of binoculars. Also a general naturalist enjoying Butterflies, Moths, Mammals and general Insects too. Started recording moths in 2010 primarily in VC66 and also more recently in VC60 too. Being able to appreciate and enjoy being in the natural world is special. After starting to compile my list I realised my British birds needs some work after focusing on my Western Palaeacrtic life list.
That's my UK life list as much up to date as I can! I bird predominately in Shetland, but grab any chance I can to visit the rest of the UK. Always have my binos with me.
Lifelong amateur naturalist with predominantly terrestrial interests. Best with birds and bugs, worst with fish and fungi; fortunately life is full of learning opportunities.
Bridlington
United Kingdom
Vol @ Bempton Cliffs RSPB reserve (ret)
Staffordshire
United Kingdom
Wildlife enthusiast, aerialist, music lover, scientist, photographer, nature girl, RSPB, Bumblebee Conservation and Wildlife Trust volunteer.
Avid young birder and twitcher located in the Shetland Isles
Still a work in progress! I have been though a lot of old notebooks and spreadsheets, but looking at my target list there are still plenty to add!
Hertfordshire
United Kingdom
Fairly casual birder though want to become a bit more dedicated, also getting into pan-listing. Especially interested in patch listing/monitoring, mostly the Stort and Lea valleys and Hatfield Forest.
West Sussex
United Kingdom
My passion for natural history has been with me for as long as I can remember. My main areas of interest are invertebrates, birds, mammals, reptiles, fungi and the marine and freshwater environments. I try to spend as much time in the field as possible and am passionate about conservation of the natural world and promoting its importance to the younger generation.
My first UK rarity was a Lesser White-fronted Goose at Slimbridge in 1973. I started a proper notebook in 1981 and moved to Canada in 2003. Now I am in Nova Scotia living on the rarity hot spot of Cape Sable Island - yay!
Founder member of BUBO, originally from Leeds, meeting the BUBO lads in Bristol. After that I did a year in Israel before returning to Leeds. I moved to Guernsey in 1998. Some people might sneer about including Channel Islands stuff on my British List but I really don't care!!
Leicestershire
United Kingdom
Started birding c1989, regularly twitching 1993 - 2001, then put the bins and scope down until I got back into casual birding late 2007. Been moth recording since 1998, now VC55 Leics. & Rutland CMR. Compiled first PSL list in November 2011 at 1983sp., reached 4000 on 24/09/2023. Mainly moths and other inverts these days. Will add dates/sites for more interesting species as and when I can be minded to.
Warwickshire
United Kingdom
I am an enthusaistic natural historian who manages a patch of wet woodland (Willow/Alder Carr) along the River Avon. I am trying to build up a detailed species list for this site.
Cornish Birdwatcher and novice pan-species lister with a passion for ring reading especially Gulls.
23 Y/O from NE England, been birding all my life, but seriously since 2009/10
I took early retirement from work June 2011. I have numerous hobbies but birds and wildlife generally have always interested me. Now have time to enjoy. Mainly a Yorkshire birder but have visited Norfolk.
I have birded all over Europe, in the U.S.A. and Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Costa Rica, Belize, Mexico, Dominican Republic, The Gambia, Cape Verde, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Tanzania and most recently Grand Cayman. I have run The Gloster Birder website since August 2000, which has grown into a monster from humble beginnings, and could easily be a full-time job.
West Sussex
United Kingdom
I was born in Hampshire but most of my formative birding years were spent in Sussex, including many fruitless hours staring at the sea off Worthing. Plenty of birding done whilst otherwise studying for a degree at Bristol University. Thereafter I spent 18 months in Israel (Didric Cuckoo plus a few hundred thousand migrating raptors), and a few years back in the UK (Sussex, Bedfordshire and Berkshire), before moving to India where I spent 17 years doing a variety of things including being a full-time Dad, part-time developer of BUBO Listing, running BirdTrack for the BTO, running my own ecommerce business, working for Nature Conservation India to promote citizen science and eBird, and then running tours through Bubo Birding. Covid brought big changes unfortunately, and I'm now back in the UK working for Natural England on improving access to species data. Outside of work, I've developed Pan-species Listing and always look forward to my next birding tour to India!
West Midlands
United Kingdom
Birder when I was very young and then stopped doing it. Started again in my twenties but other things got in the way. Only really being doing this semi-seriously since 2010 and the emphasis is still on the word 'semi' here! Interested in anyone wanting to join up for a bit of birding around the West Midlands or further occasionally as petrol prices are killing me!
A passionate young birder, twitcher & naturalist. Mainly birding in the UK.
I try not to think of all the places I have been before I got into birding too much: Alps, Russia, all over Australia, NZ and USA, Baja California, Hawaii and Fiji. Hopefully one day I'll get back to some of those places! Learning slowly but loving it- seeing new places and being outside more, as well as being more observant to other parts of the natural world. Plus have met some really nice people.
Essex / Highlands
United Kingdom
I try.
Will always be ahead of LWM.
Began birding 2009. Don't get out much :-)
Group account for pan-species listing, used for base site lists
north somerset
United Kingdom
Birder for 38 years from 1975 to 2013, becoming a Pan Species Lister from 2013 till 2022.
North Somerset
United Kingdom
From 11, birdwatching was local woods & gravel pits save for trips to the Outer Hebrides 1983, Tiree 1984 & Gibraltar Point 1985. I started twitching in summer 1987 at the end of my first year of University & on passing my driving test in January 1988, my horizons broadened. I made my first twitch to Scotland that year & first visited & twitched Shetland and Scilly in 1990 & Ireland in 1995. My main list is now a British Isles list comprising the United Kingdom, Ireland & the Isle of Man & there are a limited number of species that I have not chased in Britain that I have seen in Ireland or the Isle of Man. I now reside in Clevedon with a local patch list over 200. My obsessions are beginning to broaden to other "easy" wildlife such as macro moths & will hopefully broaden further. I also now keep a WP List but not yet added the few additional species for a World List.
