Please watch my 90 second video about seeing amazing Mountain Gorillas in Uganda. There were a highlight of of the year but not the blog itself:
youtu.be/abuqEr6KnnA
I have loved blogging during 2015 and looking back I thought I’d post my favourite ones. When I started looking at the posts, there were so many and so much variety, it was really hard to choose. In the end, I had posted 247 times during 2015, which is just plain crazy. For 2016, I’m going to try and keep it averaging at about one a week, with more when I'm abroad, so that I can concentrate on school work.
youtu.be/abuqEr6KnnA
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| Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig with a silverback Mountain Gorilla |
I have loved blogging during 2015 and looking back I thought I’d post my favourite ones. When I started looking at the posts, there were so many and so much variety, it was really hard to choose. In the end, I had posted 247 times during 2015, which is just plain crazy. For 2016, I’m going to try and keep it averaging at about one a week, with more when I'm abroad, so that I can concentrate on school work.
Here the
final list:
1. Big Garden Birdwatch –
28/012015 - http://bit.ly/1yPFQLk
This is THE
birding event of the year and so had to be included. Every year the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) as the public to watch their garden birds for an hour and record what they see. In 2015 over 8.5 million birds were recorded.
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| Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig taking part in Big Garden Birdwatch |
2. Bangladesh Trip 18th
Feb 2015, The Spoon-billed Sandpiper Day 5, Part 2 –
18/02/2015 - http://bit.ly/23wjhtL
The is about
finally seeing a Spoon-billed Sandpiper, a hugely rare and stunning bird. Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper is a project that is really important to me.
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| Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig with Mohamed Foysal and Sakib Ahmed Sonadia Island, Bangladesh |
3. What kind of world would
I vote for? A GM free one – 02/05/2015 - http://bit.ly/1QeZqFL
This is a
subject that I feel very strongly about.
I think it’s terrible that we can have GMO in our food without it being
labelled. If there was one post I would
urge you to read, it’s this one.
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| Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig |
4. A Mega Twitch, Citril
Finch, Norfolk
I think the
reason this twitch was great, was it had everything going for a good story.
First it was a MEGA RARITY. I had been
away on Scout survival camp and had no sleep then I wrote, “I should have know
something was up, when Mum appeared to pick us up right on time. Mum is
never on time.” We dashed home and Dad
got us to Norfolk
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| Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig |
5. 30 Days Wild, Day 13 examining
Brian and meeting Bill Oddie – 13/06/2015 http://bit.ly/1QWcxvZ
This was an
initiative from The Wildlife Trusts to get people doing something wild everyday
in their normal lives during the month of June. I decided to take part for the month and on this day I
went to the Festival of Nature in Bristol
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| Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig with Bill Oddie |
6. Camp Avalon
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7. No More Hunting with Dogs,
Parts 1-3, Meeting my Conservative MP, Letter to my MP, To Mr Rees-Mogg, I am
Fox – 11,12,13/06/2015,
08,12,13/07/2015, - http://bit.ly/1f5sIvj, http://bit.ly/1IAm4H0, http://bit.ly/1KP3XQf, http://bit.ly/1K0ADUZ and http://bit.ly/1PIHzMS, http://bit.ly/1I1E0NW
I know these
are strictly 6 posts, but fox hunting is something I hate. My conservative MP is in favour of bringing back hunting with dogs and
so I went to see him, heard his arguments, did my research, wrote explaining
why his arguments sucked and then did a video message to him two days before a
vote was due in the House of Commons. I was really proud as he
actually “favourited” my tweeted video, which I do respect him for, as most
people would have ignored it.
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| Fox killed by hounds |
8. East Africa - Day 32, Seeing my 4000th bird species in Kenya
How could I
not include the excitement of my 4000th bird species? It was a Red-throated
Tit, which I saw on my first day in Kenya
at Swaro Plains just south of Nairobi
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9. Bristol
This year
has been such an Amazing year for me. I
live near Bristol Bristol Paris
This was my speech addressing the rally, which was amazing having people cheering me through my speech (sorry about the rubbish sound):
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| Bristol Climate Change Rally 29 Nov 2015 |
10. Antarctica Voyage Day 6,
24 Dec 2015 – Graham Passage, Danco
Island
I think this
was the best day of our trip, everywhere we went was beautiful, with lots of
ice, whales and seals. Then we successfully
twitched an Emperor Penguin, which is really rare away from their breeding site
on the Weddell Sea . We really couldn’t believe our luck. After all of that, we camped out on ice in a
stunning location. It was 2 nights after
summer solstice and so the sky was beautiful all night. It’s an experience I will never forget.
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| Leith Cove, Antarctica at 2 am |
About the Writer
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Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig on Scilly
Photograph taken by and copyright Chris Craig
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Mya-Rose Craig is a 13 year old young birder, naturalist, conservationist, environmentalist, activist, writer and speaker. She is based near Bristol and writes the successful Birdgirl Blog, with posts about birding and conservation from around the world. She loved seeing Mountain Gorillas in East Africa and Penguins in Antarctica over Christmas 2015, her 7th continent.
Mya-Rose is a Bristol European Green Capital Ambassador along with Kevin McCloud, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, Simon King, Miranda Krestovnikoff and Shaun the Sheep! See the full list of Bristol Ambassadors. She has also been listed with the singer songwriter George Ezra and actress Maisie Williams from Game of Thrones as one of Bristol's most influential young people. Please like her Birdgirl Facebook Page and follow her on Birdgirl Twitter
