Another Bird Blog

There was a thin film of ice on the windscreen again this morning.  After the coldest, frostiest April for at least 60 years with an average...

Three degrees at dawn but not the songsters. The temperature was 3º at Oakenclough where Friday's ringing turned into another poor show ...

While we have been waiting for migrants the Lapwings just got on with the job in hand. I was fairly surprised this morning to find a brood o...

Here we are again. As promised in yesterday's blog post when the sighting of a less than common Great Egret at Cockerham provided the Mo...

Monday morning. After the school run I tripped to Cockerham for an hour or two and a walk on Richard and Helen’s farm. Maybe I would meet u...

Tuesday proved to be another non-event with just 5 birds caught and zero records for the migration stats.  I'd met Andy at 0700 for anot...

Six in the morning. I was wide awake as warm feet hit the cold floor. It was time to fill the Thermos, *pack baggin in the bait box and try ...