Another Bird Blog

Our Sand Martins (smarties) give us headaches every year. Last year all of their nests were high up the quarry face and out of reach for ...

A Tawny Owl hooted from the trees in the next door neighbour’s garden: it was very dark with little time to look, but the owl was very clo...

Boreas the Greek God who brings winter winds tried his best to stop us leaving Skiathos on Tuesday night and early Wednesday. But by Wedne...

With a forecast of a good sunny morning I decided to have a drive up to the hills to see how things were going in this belated spring. Wit...

This morning’s ringing session seemed  a long time coming. We more or less abandoned Oakenclough last year after the storms of autumn fol...

Today’s forecast was a little over the top windy for ringing at our exposed sites so I indulged in a few hours birding, camera at the re...