Another Bird Blog

We had a drop of rain on Friday; the first here for several weeks, just a few showers that barely wet our parched, straw coloured lawn and...

Tuesday morning 0630. I met up with Andy at Cockerham quarry where we hoped to catch up with Sand Martins (Smarties). It had been too lo...

A Barn Owl floated across Stalmine Moss but that wasn't the reason to stop. I’d heard a local rarity singing from the same spot where ...

Most people would settle for seeing a Barn Owl. I saw four this morning, all different birds as they were at widely spaced localities. Whi...

The week has been mixed - more of our very special English summer and the longest days when wind and rain battle for supremacy and winner ...

2016 was a year without ringing at the Cockerham Sand Martin colony because the martins’ nest holes were too high up the quarry face for u...

Conder Green has its detractors, including those who complain they “never see anything there”. Perhaps it’s the same people who visit just...

Keen to see what I had missed while on holiday in sunny Menorca, I spent most of the morning up Cockerham way. It was good to get out and ...