
Colin Piper
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United Kingdom
East Sussex
Brighton
My mum bought me Witherby's Popular Handbook to British Birds for my 12th birthday in 1967. We were on holiday on the shores of Loch Carron, the first bird I used it to identify was an Oystercatcher.
In the 70's I was a regular at Spurn Bird Observatory, where Barry Spence showed me my first Death's Head Hawk-moth.
In the 80's I became the chair of trustees at Dungeness Bird Observatory.
Work took over for a while and, on retiring, I didn't want to 'go back'. So, I decided to be a Gilbert White wannabee instead and take an interest in everything.
This year (2024) saw me do three FSC courses, volunteer for the SWT, and survey moths regularly at 3 reserves. Plus the Bioscan and Nocturnal Parasitoids projects.
So, if you bump into an eccentric old gimmer with a campervan, scratching around in a hedge bottom somewhere in Sussex looking confused, that might well be me.
In the 70's I was a regular at Spurn Bird Observatory, where Barry Spence showed me my first Death's Head Hawk-moth.
In the 80's I became the chair of trustees at Dungeness Bird Observatory.
Work took over for a while and, on retiring, I didn't want to 'go back'. So, I decided to be a Gilbert White wannabee instead and take an interest in everything.
This year (2024) saw me do three FSC courses, volunteer for the SWT, and survey moths regularly at 3 reserves. Plus the Bioscan and Nocturnal Parasitoids projects.
So, if you bump into an eccentric old gimmer with a campervan, scratching around in a hedge bottom somewhere in Sussex looking confused, that might well be me.
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