Another Bird Blog

Saturday 26 March. There was a cold start at 0600. The temperature gauge displayed 2°C as I erected nets alone while musing over what the n...

There goes that old chorus again, the one that ringers use when numbers are low but there are a few goodies to shout about.  Until today the...

There wasn’t much light when on Saturday morning I set off in the direction of Pilling. When I reeled off a bundle of shots at a hunting Ba...

Bird ringers must grab every opportunity on offer in these windswept weeks even though such times may not be ideal. And so it was that we pe...

“Comes in like a Lion, goes out like a Lamb.” - attributed to Thomas Fuller’s 1732 compendium, “Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings”. Thomas ...

So soon do March mornings need the alarm clock to cope with lighter mornings and earlier starts to catch those early rising birds. Saturday ...

The enforced three month absenteeism from our Cockerham ringing site was both worrying and frustrating, more so when thinking about informat...