Nature Blog Network

I had originally intended to put together a post consisting all of England’s phenomenal nature blogs.  I quickly realized how ambitious such an undertaking was.  There are a lot of them, and they all deserve the spot light free of clutter that comes with a long post no one is going to take the no small amount of time to read.  After all, I didn’t want to turn this spot into another I and the Bird #100.

So I’m breaking them up into defined NBN categories, and starting with birds because of my own personal bias.  Plus England has a famously intense birding culture and many skilled birders in addition to the plethora of garden birdwatchers and local patch surveyors, so birds seems like a fairly natural place to start.

Robin from wikipedia

To make our English friends feel more at home I’ll be using superfluous U’s throughout.  On my honour.

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- From the north east of England comes the the appropriately named Bird North East, a place to share sightings and news about birds and community for the area’s birders.

- One of the mighty triumvirate at 10,000 Birds hails from Merry Old, though Charlie is just as likely to brings you photos and reports from around the world as from his backyard.

- Paul at Little Brown Job hails from the British birding hotspot of Yorkshire.  Some fine photography here of seabirds in addition to the Europe’s common brown birds.

- If your yen for great Yorkshire area bird photography isn’t sated by the previous entry, head over to Bluebirder blog for more stunning shots.  There are some nice birds in that part of the country, we’re fortunate there are great photographers to document them.

-  Originally created to document a year’s worth of birding way back in 2007, the blog simply known as Digiscoping now documents local patch birding with some lovely photos, of the type you might expect with a clog of that name.

- A blog from the home of the public affairs officer of the Royal Society Protection of Birds, Garden Birds is the diary of the daily comings and goings of a Devon garden.  The birds may lack the flash of those you may go farther afield for, but the stories and photos are as good as any.

- Rich Ford’s Birding Diary covers more than just birds, but also butterflies and moths, and his macro photos are very nice.

- Ian Coleman is a working photographer who posts his work at Quantum Tiger.  He’s based in London, but by the looks of his photos, he’s certainly not limited to that metropolitan area.  Some great shots from around the country.

- A prolific writer and fine photographer in his own right, Frank at The Early Birder gets out an about often, and nearly always finds something interesting to share.

- Another professional photographer, Richard Steel, with lots of great images holds court at Wildlife Photographic Journals.  The images are big and beautiful, and his Wood Warbler series almost makes me yearn for some Phylloscopus warblers.

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There’s more to english nature bloggers than birds, of course, and I’ll be touching on those other blogs in a future post, but for now, enjoy these few of the feathered persuasion!