The Way Ahead – part 2 by Nigel Jarman

Back in 1999, fellow Bockhill birder, Brendan Ryan produced his top 10 potential twitches for the coming year(s) for Geoff Burton’s “Bulletin of the Kent Lister’s Club” (for those of you with only short-term memory retention, this was a two-volume work based on the glory years of Kent birding between 1997 and 1999). This seminal work has now joined the ranks of other cyber-based information, and the Kent Listers page is now found on the KOS website here.

The aim of this short article is two-fold: to see how successful Brendan was in his predictions and suggest my own top 10 for the rest of the decade i.e. up to 2030.

Read more …

• Kent Listing – Geoff Burton
• Bockhill Birding – day by day – Brendan Ryan
• Stodmarsh: fifty years on – Norman McCanch
• Water treatment works: A haven for insectivorous birds in cold weather – Brendan Ryan
• Encounters with Bean Geese – Norman McCanch
• My patch: Haysden – Andy Appleton
• Favourite Birds – Norman McCanch
• Five years of KOS field trips - Mike Roser
• Impressions from 2017 KOS Conference - Barry Wright
• Subspecies: a problem or challenging insight? – Norman McCanch
• Sea watching, Big day – Barry Wright
• Help a farmer to help farmland birds – Ray Morris