The Heirs of Gilbert

September at last saw a couple of new birds for the year. The first of these was Common Sandpiper, with a bird by Big Bend on the river on t...

August produced the first indications of Autumn with a Green Sandpiper on the river on the 10th. Other waders on the move included Lapwings,...

July proved to be a singularly uninspiring month for birds with the ‘highlight’ being at least two apparently territorial Yellow Wagtails in...

June, not unexpectedly, proved a very quiet month for birds, the one ‘highlight’ was our only Cuckoo of the year, recorded by a dog walker n...

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...