Another Bird Blog

All through October and November we looked, listened and waited for Fieldfares to arrive in the west when their size, colour and loud chuck...

Here in coastal Lancashire we’ve had no rain for four weeks and the summer is beginning to look like an old-fashioned one but where the inev...

Last week was Sand Martins, this week it’s their blue and white cousins House Martins. While it’s relatively easy to catch Sand Martins that...

I set off in the dark and drove towards Lancaster. The temperature hovered around zero under a clear starry sky that hinted at a sunny day. ...

I don’t normally have a leisurely breakfast, more a “grab it and go”. At 0630 on Sunday a steady drizzle rattled on the conservatory roof. ...

Saturday was cool, blustery and showery just like the week gone by when there was no birding and no ringing. Hopefully the showers would n...

With a dry sunny morning but a 20mph stiff northerly there was no chance of a ringing session at our exposed ringing sites.  I set off for t...