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About
us
This site
is the birding record and showcase of Mark, Nats and Cam Moore.
Why Allnmark? - well it’s
a mix of Allison (Alli) ‘n’ Mark. Then
came Nats (Natz, Nathalie) and Cam
(Cammy, Cameron) but Allnmarknnatsncam
is just silly!
We live in Yate, South Gloucestershire, but tend to be migratory during
the summer months due to a mix of birding and scouting activities. Holidays are UK based – usually camping in tents or caravans (and strangely we
often end up with a birding wish list attached!).
We love to disappear for a day or weekend following a birdguides tip - 2008 saw us flee to Hampshire for the
Red Breasted Goose, Norfolk
for the White Crowned Sparrow and a few trips to Pembrokeshire for the Rosy
Starling then back for a dose of Auks on Skomer in
July. This year we’ve played
with a Penduline Tit in Devon and have had day
trips to Skomer,
Kent and
Dorset….so far!
 Mark. I’ve always loved the
outdoors, playing in the fields as a
kid (when kids were still allowed to), distance
running and cycling through my late teens into my 20s. However, I did much of it without really
paying the due attention to my surroundings.
It was only in my late 30s that a renewed interest
in the wildlife around me lead to proper lists from 2004, my 40th
year. Also being bit of a computer
geek, it’s amazing just how many buttons
birding pushes!
Work is far too many hours pushing a mouse around a
computer screen, based in Cheltenham (no,
not really as boring as it sounds).
My birding has evolved into a routine of monthly visits
to Slimbridge, the Forest
of Dean, Severnisde
and Marshfield. Interspersed with annual trips to Devon, Dorset, Skomer. . . . .and then an email arrives from Birdguides
and all plans go out of the window.
 Nats.
A true
teenager, Nats is a chameleon; spreading her time between her bed, birding,
scouting, her studies, make up and did I mention her bed? Birding has been squeezed in over the last
couple of years, but when a mega is on the cards - Nat’s manages to get up ;o)
While her 2008 bird list was
a little roller-coasterish, in Scouting Nat’s
gained her Chief Scout Gold Award and also become a Young Leader. In 2009 she has
also taken up the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme (following in
Dad’s footsteps). She is also
studying really hard towards her impending exams.
As with every teenager, Nats manages to swing our
emotions between immense pride and true frustration!
Cam
spent the first few years of our birding
trips actively not watching birds! - he instead had
his own notional mammal and bug lists.
Towards the end of 2007 though, he started to look up
instead of down and suddenly started his own bird list. He is now enthusiastic and ready to come on
any trip offered, the earlier the better!
Cam has a unique birding style; he will often take a hand
held games machine into hides with him, once he’s scanned the scene
he will turn it on (silently) immersed
in his game - with his ears tuned into every birder around him and one finger
on the pause button - multitasking or just
young? I’ll tell you in a few years!
He also jumps off every sand dune he finds!! (where is the nearest hospital?)
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