Hi - I'm very much a beginner having arrived at bird-watching through an interest in amateur photography. I started with wild flowers, moved on to insects and moths, and ended up focused on birds. I guess I'm slowing moving up the food chain. I'm very interested in bird behaviour, not so much in keeping lists or counting species, although I do both a little halfheartedly. My home here in Co Sligo is within reach of a variety of habitats - coastal areas, bog and moorland, wet pasture, wetlands, woodlands and agricultural grassland. I'm currently 'rewilding' my own two acres which again has a mix of habitats, mostly wet pasture, woodland and hedgerows. I see warblers, pipits, blackcaps, corvids, wrens, goldcrests, finches and garden birds around my land, along with snipe, woodcock, fieldfares etc. I occasionally hear skylarks and curlew on the bog road and grasshopper warblers in my field; I have visiting herons, and Whooper Swans flying over. Oh, and I'm the sister of fellow member McHeath, who introduced me to the forum 😄
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