Tim Melling – Purple Sandpiper

Tim writes: Spurn peninsula in East Yorkshire has been breached by the sea so the point is now an island at high tide.  As I walked back along the breach in late September I spotted just a single wader on the beach, which was this Purple Sandpiper.  I usually expect to see this species on…

GWCT does a bit of rewriting of history

GWCT have a blog which is usually asking you for money but this one is trying to rewrite history in order to curry favour with DEFRA too. Phrases such as; These sites are designated for rare and vulnerable birds (and for regularly occurring migratory species) by the EU under the Birds Directive. Your SSSI may…

Time to brush up on bird song (2)

Last spring I wrote series of blog posts, 50 in all, about bird song – we were all in lockdown and people were listening more. The blogs went down very well. Well, now is a good time to revise, or simply start, listening to bird song and getting to recognise the species involved. Of course,…