Another Bird Blog

Sue took the 5C bus to go shopping. I grabbed the car and went birding. Read on to discover who got the best deal.  The 0630 start saw me dr...

Friday produced my first autumnal Kingfisher of 2024, whizzing back and forth across farmland drainage ditches, enough stimulus to inspire a...

ALZ8035, the single Sedge Warbler we caught on 3 August 2024 at Cockerham had been ringed elsewhere. The morning was one of excruciating slo...

2023 was such a poor year for ringing birds that our site at Pilling yielded just 2 Common Whitethroats, one in July and one in August. Neit...

Surprise surprise. We survived Storm Debi, a “storm” hyped up by the usual suspects quoting 70 mph gusts from well-known exposed sites on cl...

I changed the header. It’s a Twite Linaria flavirostris , a close relative of the Linnet Linaria cannabina , a bird featured many times here...