In the May Birdwatch there are lots of good things – available in your newsagents now!
I’ve seen a Little Gull, rather like the one on the cover of the magazine, at Stanwick Lakes already this year so I am already springing.
Steven Moss rattles off a few bird names and where they come from – they are all people’s names too. Who were Leach, Cetti and Savi for starters?
Bill Oddie writes about bird killing on Cyprus – in a very oddie-ish manner. It’s a good read.
Where else would you find a letter entitled ”When fish owls attack’?
And there are the usual (or unusual) rarity round-ups for the UK and further afield and a host of cracking photographs of rare and common species alike.
There’s a review of Tim Birkhead’s new book, The Wonderful Mr Willughby, which will also be reviewed on this blog, by Ian Carter, on Sunday.
My monthly column ends with a plug for Ed Hutchings’s RSPB-supported e-petition to license driven grouse shooting.
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