The Heirs of Gilbert

Given how poor my 2025 village bird list is then October helped a little with four new species for the year. Best ‘new’ bird was a Great W...

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...