Sim Elliott
Conservation & Canvey Island. Brownfield (Canvey Wick) & Greenfield (West Canvey Marsh). 30.04.22
Typically my blog posts record what I have seen on my day nature trips, supplemented with some information on the species seen, and the...
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Sim Elliott
Mar 7, 202213 min read
Urban Birding: Walthamstow Wetlands. Cormorants, Kingfishers, Tufted Ducks & Golden Eyes. 05.03.21
Conservation, auto-rewilding and development Walthamstow Wetlands consists of a group of reservoirs in Walthamstow/South Tottenham, owned...
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Sim Elliott
Feb 20, 20225 min read
Cuckmere Haven, the day after Storm Eunice, and the importance of Saltmarshes. 19.02.22
It was very windy today at Cuckmere Haven. I had planned to go to Pagham Harbour but the train track to Chichester was blocked all...
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Sim Elliott
Feb 2, 20227 min read
Glossy Ibis and global warming: a trip to RSPB Pagham Harbour. 01.02.22
I visit RSPB Pagham Harbour very frequently. My "patch" I see as being the Sussex harbours, estuaries and rivers; viz. - Chichester...
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Sim Elliott
Nov 28, 20217 min read
Over-wintering ducks and waders at RSPB Pagham Harbour on a very cold day. 27.11.21
I am a member of the Gay Birders Club; a great way of communicating about birding with British and international LGBT birders. This day...
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Sim Elliott
Nov 22, 202120 min read
Birding in the Thames Estuary on the site of a former Rifle Range: RSPB Rainham Marshes. 20.11.21
I travelled to RSPB Rainham Marshes by train on Saturday 21.11.21, from Brighton to Purfleet; (for full details of how to get to RSPB...
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Sim Elliott
Sep 26, 20218 min read
Tring Natural History Museum & College Lake NR: Taxidermy, Ivy Bees & a Red Kite 22.09.21
On Tuesday 22nd September I visited Tring National History Museum, after reading The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson On a cool...
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Sim Elliott
Sep 3, 202110 min read
On Bumblebee Surveying: values, meaning, purpose and pleasure. Dungeness 01.09.21.
I experienced a high sense of well-being on Wednesday when I spent the day bumblebee surveying (and doing a little bit of bird watching);...
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Sim Elliott
Aug 3, 20214 min read
Bumblebee Surveying and A bit of Bird Watching - Dungeness 02.08.21
The primary purpose of this visit to Dungeness was bumblebee surveying, aa part of my role as a volunteer with the Bumblebee Conservation...
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Sim Elliott
May 28, 202110 min read
RSPB Medmerry 26.05.21: Little Ringed Plovers; and the decline of Herring Gulls, Linnets and Cuckoos
This post, like most of my other bird posts, includes photographs of most of the species I saw on my visit, but the text concentrates on...
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Sim Elliott
May 13, 20215 min read
RSPB Medmerry 12.05.21: A Cattle Egret, a Yellowhammer and a Cuckoo
On Wednesday 12.05.21 I returned to the Manhood Peninsula and visited the RSPB Pagham Harbour Nature Reserves' neighbouring reserve, RSPB...
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Sim Elliott
May 13, 202110 min read
RSPB Pagham Harbour 10.05.21: Terns (Common, Sandwich & Little) and Black-Tailed Godwits
This was the first time I had visited RSPB Pagham Pagham Harbour Local Nature Reserve, West Sussex - The RSPB for about 15 years, partly...
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Sim Elliott
May 2, 20217 min read
The day I didn't see a Hoopoe, but saw a flock of flinches, a brood of Coot chicks & a Reed Warbler
On Friday evening (30/05/21) I received a message that a Hoopoe had been seen in a sheep field off Bazehill Road, in Rottingdean. I know...
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Sim Elliott
Apr 30, 202133 min read
Arundel WWT & the Arun: a Grey Wagtail, a Sedge Warbler, a Red Kite, and a Marsh Harrier, 26.04.21
As I now feel confident about using public transport again, I decided on Monday to visit the Arundel Wetland Centre (Wildfowl and Wetland...
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Sim Elliott
Apr 8, 202116 min read
The Ending of Lockdown: three visits to see the birds of Adur.
On Thursday 01.04.21 I made my first visit - a brief afternoon trip to Shoreham Beach, Widewater Lagoon and the Adur Estuary to the...
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Sim Elliott
Feb 12, 202126 min read
Neighbourhood Nature: the importance or our local areas for well-being & pro-conservation motivation
This the record of a circular walk; and an exploration of the importance of attending to local nature to well-being and conversation. All...
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Sim Elliott
Jan 29, 20219 min read
Rocky the Rock Pipit: animal-human relations, well-being & conservation.
Whilst this post was written on 29/01/21, I will add photos of Rocky when I see him/her susequently. "Theodore Roszak identified loss of...
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Sim Elliott
Dec 28, 20204 min read
Awe and Attachment: our connection with nature.
I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me, High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities...
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Sim Elliott
Nov 20, 20202 min read
Spiritual Activism: the interconnectedness of nature.
Spiritual activism has been much discussed of late in theories of social action on climate change and biodiversity loss. Ana Louise...
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Sim Elliott
Nov 19, 20203 min read
For the love of nature. Engaging people in action on climate change and biodiversity loss.
If we are to tackle the climate and biodiversity crises, it seems clear that governments and citizens need to take action to reduce...
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