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About Redgannet

Redgannet has been working for over 33 years as a crew member/flight attendant and enjoys the well-ventilated air of the outdoors. The nom de blog, Redgannet, was adopted to add an air of mystery and to make himself more attractive to women. His father first whetted Redguga's appetite for all things natural by buying him his first pair of 7x35s and a copy of Thorburn's Birds. Having no mentor beyond an indulgent parent, he spent the first season hoping for an Egyptian Vulture at the bird table in his English garden. His most memorable birding moment is seeing an Egyptian Vulture with those same binoculars 26 years later. Redgannet is married to Canon, but his heart and half of his house belongs to Helen and their son Joseph. He is looking forward to communicating with people who don't ask if he is searching for the "feathered variety" of bird.

Brown-eared Bulbuls in blossom

The 2020 Olympics will be held in Tokyo, Japan. Do birders and canoeists/kayakists/kayakers/kakies make good bedfellows I wonder? The new…

Collaborative list – April 2019

It’s official. It’s spring. By all measures, meteorological, astronomical and anatomical, spring is sprung. The meteorological date is from March…

Pileated Woodpecker exchange at the nest.

This is a male Pileated Woodpecker. You can tell he is male from the complex expression of boredom and impatience…

Collaborative List – March 2019

Are we all getting excited yet? March is done. The equinox has passed. There can be no denying that spring…

Purple Sunbird

The dispute over Kashmir has been rumbling on since Partition in 1947. India and Pakistan are mostly left to get…

Heronry at Sultanpur

Sultanpur National Park is situated approximately 30km to the west of Indhira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India. It…

Collaborative List – February 2019

The life list has received a huge boost this month and has risen 43 points to 3616. Thunder will be…

Getting ready for spring.

What’s this? An egg? Where did winter go? A discarded pigeon’s egg reminded me that spring is just around the…

London Heathrow Airport versus the White Wagtails

I have been keeping an eye out for the Pied Wagtail Motacilla alba yarelli, since I first noticed the roosting flock…

Collaborative List – January 2019

The first sharer of 2019 was Clare who narrowly beat Duncan by 5 hours. In a very competitive first day,…

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