Day 3 of the Bird Fair and I have a lot of conversations to finish among all those which I haven’t even started! Here in east Northants it’s a bit of a cloudy blowy start to the day and it looks as though that’s what it will be like at Bird Fair too. It won’t…
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Book review – Mind of the Raven by Bernd Heinrich
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This book was published quite a long time ago – 1999 in hardback – but it deals with a topical subject and I noticed it on sale in the bookstores of Yellowstone National Park a few weeks ago. I almost bought it then, particularly as there was a Raven running around on the roof…
Bird Fair Day 2
I’m back home again after Day 2 of the Bird Fair and we are all having a cup of tea before opening the wine – I knew you wanted to know that. Ten good things about today: The queue to get into the Bird Fair before the gates open at 9am is a great place…
Tim Melling – Long-tailed Skua
Tim writes: called Long-tailed Jaeger in America, but they are one and the same species. Long-tailed are the smallest and rarest of the skua family. They breed on tundra where they feed mainly on lemmings and voles. But they winter off the continental shelf in the southern hemisphere, mainly off South America and Africa where…
Guy Shorrock – Common Crane
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Cranes on the up Guy writes: I still vividly remember in the mid 1980s seeing my very first common crane during a birding trip with friends to Norfolk. Cranes had been lost as a UK breeding bird around 400 years ago as a result of hunting for food and the subsequent draining of their…