Another Bird Blog

Just in case you folks didn’t know. Today March 1st is known in parts of Scotland as “Whuppity Scoorie”- supposedly it reflects changes wh...

New field guides come thick and fast nowadays. No sooner have we invested in and digested a new one than yet another appears to tempt us. ...

Apologies first for yesterday posting again a duplicate post from last week. This was a bungled attempt to update the blog and Google was...

Here in the UK there are two separate and quite distinct species - birder and bird photographer. And they don’t always co-exist in perfect...

Friday. I met Andy up at Oakenclough for a ringing session.  The scene that greeted us was not quite as promised by the weather forecast a...

After a couple of pretty windy days there’s no ringing just yet but I made a couple of visit to our Linnet ringing site to put out a mix o...

The Pink-footed Geese - “pinks”, “pinkies” or simply “geese” to us locals are in huge numbers this week, perhaps up to 20,000. I think the...