A good away trip to The Hive, Barnet’s new ground in Canons Park. This was looking to be a comfortable away victory on Boxing Day until Jonathan Smith had his leg broken. We did not have such a good second half even though Barnet were down to 10 but we still managed to hold out for a deserved victory. We went for a couple of pints in The Hive bar at the ground after the game where we spotted Edgar Davids the Barnet manager and former Dutch international. Luton had sold their full allocation of 1700 tickets for this game.

13/12/2013 Went to the Roundhouse, Camden to see The Damned, Theatre of Hate and The Ruts.

And some video footage:-

http://youtu.be/fB_EB4DRSBQ The Ruts

http://youtu.be/UK5nhr9bcSg Theatre of Hate

 http://youtu.be/B29lxMy-tAk The Damned – New Rose

An Orphean Warbler was identified in a garden in south west Wales near St Brides, originally thought to be a Lesser Whitethroat its real identity was discovered when photographs were published online on the Pembrokeshire Birds website. Access was arranged to the garden and volunteers organised the twitch, sorting out parking in a field nearby and allowing groups of about 40 into the garden to view the bird at any one time. They even put up a sign about two miles away to point the correct turn to take. Everyone appeared to be very well behaved and it went very well. We had travelled down Friday night and stayed near Swansea so we could be on site early Saturday morning. We later went to Dale airfield from where you could see Skokholm Island and we also visited Barry Island which is near Cardiff. 

A few photos from a day in London.

A day in Hampshire to see the Semipalmated Plover at Black Point, Hayling Island. It flew in and was on view at Black Point for a few minutes but was disturbed by a windsurfer and flew off with the other waders. It was relocated on the main beach at Hayling Island but it was raining heavily by this time. Also seen today was the Red Breasted Goose at Sturt Pond, Milford on Sea and the Long Billed Dowitcher at Butt’s Lagoon, Keyhaven Marshes.

A photo of one of the 3 Black Terns at Tring Reservoirs this evening.

A nice sunny morning to visit Tring Reservoirs looking for Spring migrants. Several were  seen including two Cuckoo’s, House Martin, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler and Common Tern.

Started the weekend by going to Eastbourne for the Bonapartes Gull but unfortunately it was not seen. Went to Dungeness where the highlights were 1st winter Caspian Gull, 3 Smew including 1 male, 3 Great White Egrets, Tree Sparrows and a very tame Fox. On Sunday we went to Stodmarsh to see a Penduline Tit. We also visited a few lighthouses and a lightship in Gillingham.

Lightship 21 in Gillingham

Penduline Tit

Beachy Head Lighthouse

South Foreland Lighthouse

Fox at Dungeness

Great White Egret

Went to see Harry Hill. Sausage Time tour. Don’t know how to describe this show, funny at times but also quite bizarre.