I am a great fan of the Bird Fair – but will we ever see it again? The last face-to-face, binocular-to-binocular, pint-to-pint Bird Fair was in 2019 and it would be a brave organiser who would risk calling the world to Rutland Water in August 2021 what with Covid and all. But if you can…
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Burning
This post is about the announcement, long-awaited announcement, overdue announcement, that DEFRA made on Friday about burning on blanket bogs. I’ll tell you what I think in the hope that it influences what you think. I’ve read the announcement, and thought about it, and that probably helps. 1. The announcement is good news The announcement…
BGBW 2021 – how was it for you?
A fairly average BGBW with 29 individual birds of 13 species; Starling (6), House Sparrow (7), Chaffinch (2), Dunnock (1), Goldfinch (3), Collared Dove (1), Robin (1), Blackbird (2), Blue Tit (2), Coal; Tit (1), Woodpigeon (1), Reed Bunting (1) and Jackdaw (1). Our regular Blackcap(s) wasn’t seen yesterday and didn’t turn up today despite…
Sunday book review – The Swallow by Stephen Moss
On a cold, rainy winter’s day it’s cheering to think that Swallows might be back with us in a couple of months. I look forward to that but in some ways I enjoyed the last chapter of Stephen Moss’s latest (or have I missed one?) book the most because he takes us to Africa where…
Tim Melling – Knot
Tim writes: this was a flock of Knot at high tide at Spurn in East Yorkshire taken in early October. I say Knot, though if you look really carefully there are at least eight Dunlin among them. Most of the Knot are in grey winter plumage but a few of them have orange mottling, remnants…