Out birding

I’ve just come back from a day in Norfolk – that’s why this post is a little after 1800. I like birdwatching!  I went birdwatching yesterday, I went birdwatching today, and I expect I will do some birdwatching tomorrow. Most of my birding today was at the RSPB nature reserve at Titchwell – I like…

Bird flu – more cases

Yesterday Defra updated the information on cases of avian flu in ‘wild’ birds in the UK.  Bird flu has now been detected in a range of species in a range of counties as follows: I have some doubts about the value of the Defra and EU testing of ‘wild’ birds – see here and here….

A good January for this blog

January was a good month for this blog – over 20,000 unique users and close to 85,000 page views. That would have made it either the second or third most-read month of 2017 (after July and August – always good months running up to the grouse shooting season). Thank you to all readers, cartoonists, Guest…