David Bradley

I’ve talked about warblers before. Basically, the warblers are a non-scientific grouping of similar birds. In the UK, we often see and hear  a variety of warblers, mostly summer visitors, amon...

https://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/warbler-central-garden-warblers-at-rspb-fen-drayton.html

Mrs Sciencebase and I opted to follow the footpath from the RSPB Ouse Fen (Earith) car park to what we refer to as the “Clouded Yellow Field”, which is the patch where we saw that butterfly i...

https://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/reed-bunting-emberiza-schoeniclus.html

Yesterday, I spotted a Sandwich Tern, Thalasseus sandvicensis, colloquially known as a Sarnie, patrolling the open river lock at Brownshill Staunch on the Great River Ouse. It flew back and forth...

https://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/one-good-tern.html

If you have even a passing interest in the natural world, you will have most likely heard the phrase “invasive species”. By definition, a deliberate or accidental release of a species to an a...

https://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/culling-in-the-name-of.html

Social Media Mastodon | Threads | Facebook | BlueSky Photography Instagram | GuruShots | 500px | ImagingStorm Music BandCamp | Spotify | AppleMusic Incidentally, you can easily get to my othe...

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I’m sure someone will tell me this has been done, but having come up with a silly meme idea on Twitter, I was thinking of a game that’s a hybrid between Six Degrees of Separation and Morningt...

https://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/famous-connections-a-new-parlour-game.html

Having spent a couple of evenings watching Starling murmurations with hundreds of thousands of birds, it was time to seek out some Aves in smaller numbers. I had a quick look in at RSPB Ouse Fen ...

https://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/more-fenland-birding.html

Back in February, DxO sent me a beta version of their PureRaw4 software to test drive ahead of the official launch in March. So, having used version 3 for years, I was keen to incorporate the upg...

https://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/upgrading-your-denoising-workflow.html

UPDATE: My report of Orange Tip on 2024-03-17 may well have been the first reported nationally this year, according to our County Butterfly Recorder. I saw my first Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardam...

https://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/orange-tip-anthocharis-cardamines.html

The kind folks at DxO let me have a copy of the latest version of PureRaw ahead of launch last month and so I’ve been using that to process my RAW photos from my camera for a few weeks now. It ...

https://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/denoising-with-dxo-pureraw4.html