Another Bird Blog

After yet another windy week our one out of seven days a week of ringing turned out to be Saturday. Overnight Friday/Saturday the temperatu...

Monday’s weather didn’t disappoint with a start of zero wind, zero rain, and a hint of a sunny morning to come. I met up with Will at 0715 a...

The forecasts for Wednesday proved to be on the wrong side of marginal. Luckily I’d already decided to drive and top up the feeding station...

Saturday morning was going to be the best of a bad bunch of yet another week of rain blown in from the Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Of...

It’s not often our west coast weather allows two consecutive days of ringing, and hardly ever three days in a week. But this week, and afte...

Too much food, too much booze and too few birds - that about sums up my last fortnight. It’s not for the want of trying when a number of t...

November 26th was the day of the BTO notification that our bird ringing would cease with “immediate effect.” The now almost annual outbreak ...

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. ...