The Heirs of Gilbert

Village-wise May has been pretty much a wash-out, no wader movement, no interesting insects and many of the normal summer migrants still onl...

A strange spring continues, bright, sunny but still bitterly cold at times. There’s no doubt it has had an impact on birds. For example, alt...

It’s been an embarrassingly long time since I last wrote one of these but the definite signs of spring are incentive enough. The first summe...

The end then of another birding year, I managed 104 species in the village (around about average) picking up a couple of late additions with...

A good weekend’s birding in the village. It started with signs of the first sustained passage of Fieldfares, around 120 birds flew high over...

Pick of sightings this week was at least one Long-eared Owl I found in willow scrub by the river. Although there have been a couple of previ...

Pick of the recent sightings were at least three Ruddy Darters in the Magic Garden yesterday. Surprisingly this is a new species for the par...