The recent cold weather didn't result in any significant increase in birds visiting my garden and perhaps that is because we didn't ...

Apologies for the lack of posts in recent weeks but there has been a lot going on on the domestic and family front to say the least. Added t...

The day started with some very heavy snow showers making for some wintry scenes and tricky driving conditions. It was rather wet snow and al...

Fellow ringer and Coot enthusiast, Kane Brides, phoned me to let me know that the Coot I photographed yesterday had been ringed at Cosmeston...

I am not a believer in auspicious numbers or days and any of that hokum or at least I try not to but then culture, superstitions and incredi...

We recently received a batch of recoveries from the BTO. Highlight for me was a Greenfinch from Dumfries & Galloway that was controlled ...

This could have been three posts rather than one but this is my attempt at stringing them together. A real dump of snow closed the M6 overni...

The weather has not been too good this week but we have managed to catch just over 100 birds since my last post. Two trips to the Swallow ro...

Coots are really underrated birds. They move far more than people think because these movements are almost exclusively at night. I ringed GC...