Another Bird Blog

Yours truly together with Andy and Will visited the Sand Martin colony on Wednesday where we caught 25 martins. Here’s a  LINK   to that day...

There’s no birding or bird ringing for a day or two with both rain and wind preventing activities.  However, there came an interesting if sl...

After the latest visit to Gulf Lane Pilling/Cockerham today I carried out a quick audit of results to date.  The DemOn program produced a ta...

For today’s post I reproduce a beautifully written piece about the House Sparrow. The article first appeared in The Irish Times in March ...

A red sky broke over the hills to the east of Oakenclough on Thursday. It was a warning we should have heeded. But after making the effor...

The weather’s becoming unfit for man or beast. Storm Diana is hurtling up the Irish Sea and it looks like there will be zero birding or ri...

There came something of a surprise with a recent email from the BTO.  The message concerned an Oystercatcher found dead by a member of...

Some news from Europe about the Little Owl, Athene noctua , sýček obecný, recently chosen by the Czech Society for Ornithology as their “B...