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…

Two tales from the Sussex woods

Ahead of speaking at the Sussex Ornithological Society conference on Saturday I stayed in a B&B nearby on Friday night. It was quite a posh B&B , and very nice, but hard to find. Well, it wasn’t the B&B’s fault that it was hard to find, I think that was partly my fault and partly…