Recipe: take two small pebbles and hold one in each hand. Now tap one against the other. What you can hopefully hear is very much like the call of the ...
Seeing something you consider remarkable when you are into birds has much to do with where you are and when you see it. A Moorhen on your local pond might ...
Birds are noticeably on the move this month as we head into Autumn and I’ll be on the watch out, as usual, for a few unusual species. Numbers of some more ...
I was walking the dog one night when I heard the squeaky two tone note of a child’s bike horn approaching. Better watch out, I thought, any kid that young ...
Oh the joyful music of male Blackbirds singing! Throughout the day and especially in early evenings and mornings their delightful music has been hard to ...
Warrants are out for the arrestof a trio of trouble-hit characters who have vanished from their former haunts around the village. Volunteers’ annual ...
Main Photo: Skylark (Alauda arvensis) There was I, gazing up into the apparently empty sky with my ‘bins’ when a passing dog walker on the public footpath ...
Gotcha! The bird who arrives back from its winter coastal retreat is again with us just in time for April Fool’s day – all dressed up and ready to play the ...
Among a crowd of elephants and hippos at a watering hole somewhere in Africa right now is an elegant little wader picking its way carefully through a forest ...
After my local record of 118 sightings of different bird species in 2022 I decided to try and go one better in 2023. But as 120 is a nice round number I ...
I’ve never been a Neighbours fan but as I tramped one muddy public footpath alongside a Cranleigh field last month a little bird flew overhead and reminded me ...
If we didn’t have a Robin as our much-celebrated Christmas bird then I can suggest a likely alternative. It’s slightly bigger and, like many Santa Claus ...
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