Starting with the trainspotter-y listing details: I added three birds to my patch list and three to my British list, one of which was a lifer. Really, that’s not a very good score; I got two lifers and a patch tick in the first week of 2010. But the year had a few highlights nonetheless.
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Bird of the Year 2009
27 January 2010 – 12:48 pm
Bird of the Year 2009: best performances in a supporting role
23 January 2010 – 3:37 pm
Best Plant
Provence in May was just a great place for flowers. I claimed on Twitter to have seen nine or ten species of orchid, although it’s entirely possibly I over-claimed, since there tend to be lots of very similar species, some of them are quite variable, and I didn’t have a book with me. Still, [...]
Books of the Year 2009
18 January 2010 – 12:13 pm
As per usual, these are books I happened to read in 2009, rather than books published in 2009.
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller
Chaka, Thomas Mofolo
Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje
Echoes from the Dead Zone, Yiannis Papadakis
The Maias, José Maria de Eça de Queirós
Across Arctic America, Knud Rasmussen
Them, Jon Ronson
Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin
The Culture of [...]
Links of the year 2009
16 January 2010 – 4:56 pm
A (not very methodical) selection of the best links I posted over the past year. The ones picked out in green were those which struck me as especially memorable when I looked back.
Andy Goldsworthy // Better planning for healthcare — British foods — British wrestling posters // Cardiff at night — Colour-coded children — Composite photos of New York // Dolphins and [...]
RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2009
24 January 2009 – 11:21 am
My list for the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch:
Blue tit 3
Great tit 2
Long-tailed tit 2
Chaffinch 2
Robin 2
Dunnock 1
Magpie 1
Carrion crow 4
Green woodpecker 1
Town pigeon 4
Woodpigeon 2
Sparrowhawk 1
Which is basically pretty rubbish — it was very quiet today — but is livened up by a couple of decent species: sparrowhawk, which is increasingly common around here but by [...]