‘Mad as a March hare’ is the still used centuries’ old declaration uttered by countryfolk to describe anyone acting unpredictably, oddly and excitedly. The ...

It’s a late afternoon in January and I’m out in the freezing fields to witness a spectacular show.  The miserable mist and drizzle plaguing us in the early ...

Main Photo: Cormorant drying out its wings © Dave Nurney The rare blue sky of a raw winter’s morning reveals them. I count the evidence of over a dozen. ...

Christmas is coming and if it ushers in a big freeze then many of us will be hoping it won’t rival the worst British winter for 200 years in 1962-1963. I ...

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 ...