Welcome to The Widerscope Website!
So who the heck are we?
We're a bunch of birders from South London who over the past few years have all become a bit jaded with our local bird club. They couldn't offer us what we wanted. They weren't hardcore enough for us. They wouldn't kip in a car each night for three months (actually, only one of us did that.) They couldn't do overnight drives to Scotland for White-tailed Plovers. They wouldn't twitch The Gower AND Anglesey in the same day (who in their right mind would?) They couldn't twitch Scilly for the day. We bloody well could though!!!
Some colourful characters from The Surbiton & District Birdwatching Society....
2-Hats Muriel (RIP), Gary Caine and The Big Bad Glen Monster...
...3 damn good reasons for us to quit the Surbiton Bird Club!!!
And here's the Head Honcho flanked by two of the more senior members. We love you all guys!!!
And not just birds either. We look at butterflies (our latest goodies include Indian Red Admirals in Tenerife and Glanville Fritillaries in Hampshire), moths (Six-belted Clearwing in Rotherhithe, dozens of Scarlet Tigers in Winchester, Oak Eggar in Scotland), Dragonflies (Vagrant Emperor in Tenerife, Small Red Damselfly in Surrey), Mammals (Short-finned Pilot Whales in February, Wildcat, Mountain Hares and Otters in May), Reptiles (Turkish Gecko and Canary Lizards on Tenerife in February), Amphibians, Fish (like touching a Blue Shark in the Western Approaches!), Plants (Danny has discovered Western Clover on Tean, the first record for the island!!!!), Jellyfish, rockpools - in fact, pretty much anything... hence our name. We look at a Wider Scope of nature than most.
Quotes from our Guestbook:
"Excellent site! I particularly approve of the pictures of Caper poo."
"Still the best satirical birding blog in my opinion!"
"I saw you for the second time on page three of the Daily Mail..."
"Thought it was about time I informed you of how utterly shite your site is!!"
"Great site, we need more like you."
"Seth, sorry to hear about your fight with the washing machine."
Latest updates -
More photos on Caption That Pic (30/9), a whole new Quiz Page, latest additions to Seth's butterfly yearlist and their photos on the Butterfly Page. Plus the Daily Blog updates from Nick and Seth, and weekly news from Scillies (30/9) and the latest NonScientific Discoveries both of which come courtesy of The Pirate.
During September this site has been viewed by people from across much of Britain from areas as diverse as Aberdeen, Shetland, Cornwall, Wales, Faversham, Brentford and Sidmouth. Slightly further afield, viewers have perused from Europe whilst across The Pond we've had numerous visitors from the USA as well as from Canada. Further out we've been visited from Japan, Singapore, Vietnam(!) and Australia. Thank you all, folks. Hope you enjoyed it and remember to check back soon!!!
Please enter and enjoy our mad little world...
