Another Bird Blog

I grabbed a couple of hours birding at Pilling today, between lunchtime and with winter solstice imminent, the rapidly failing light of 3pm....

The icy morning both began and then ended with a Sparrowhawk, but not the same one. The first, a female, flew across the road in front of ...

The first snow fell today, so heavy at times that the large flakes settled, but by mid-afternoon it had more or less thawed when the clouds ...

It was a half decent day at last, even a touch of sun and less wind, with the result that all the raptors came out to play on Rawcliffe Moss...

After ringing almost 400 Chaffinches at Out Rawcliffe this autumn Will and I might have expected some return from our efforts. However today...

Mindful of the BBC’s bad weather warnings for the next five days, I decided to brave the elements again for a spot of birding, but with rain...

The wind and rain relented just enough for a blast around the local patch this morning, although it was a far from ideal dull, grey and bree...