Author: Mark

Dr Martin Warren OBE! One brilliant entomologist? Our butterfly expert? Many congratulations to Martin! What a nice way to end 2016.

These are just a few image highlights from the pages of this blog from 2016.   This Hoatzin image is by Oscar Dewhurst – 6 November One of Ralph’s best cartoons of the year – 21 May One of my favourite birds of the year: This was nice: And this:   I saw a White-tailed…

This blog has had over 1,250,000 page views in 2016 (as of yesterday – so only just!). Thank you to all contributors of Guest Blogs, cartoons, photographs and comments and to all readers for making this blog so successful. I’ll be giving you some thoughts for what 2017 may have in store in the New…

  In December 1860, the fourth Baron Lilford found seven White-fronted Geese in his meadows at Aldwincle in the Nene Valley near his home of Lilford Hall. In his book, Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood Vol 1 (1895), Lilford describes the species as visiting Northamptonshire occasionally ‘in small numbers, generally in the…

  As always, there is some good stuff in this month’s Birdwatch. As well as the good news of the guano award for YFTB and the ‘Campaign of the Year’ award for the Ban Driven Grouse Shooting e-petition, there is plenty of other good reading material. I enjoyed reading about the first Irish Harlequin Duck…