I had planned an early morning ringing session in the top willows but I just couldn't motivate myself when the alarm went off, despite t...

4th July This was a dual purpose evening visit to do a bit of ringing and work on clearing some of the summer's growth from one of the ...

Where did June go; it doesn't seem like the best part of a month has gone by since my last post but it has. I've not done much ringi...

I managed to get out to Billinge a few times during the period 24th to 31st July but some of the sessions were weather restricted. The gener...

Back to back sessions at Billinge yesterday evening and again this morning produced the goods with a combined total of 106 birds ringed and ...

This morning's weather was perfect for ringing, flat calm with a thin veil of broken high cloud, and with August coming to a close it wa...

I finished off the month the way I started it with an evening ringing session at Billinge. I set up the usual 2 nets in what were near perfe...

I went back to the Billinge site this evening with a view to catching some more Swallows at the roost and to see if any House Martins were r...

I have been very busy in one way or another over the last week or so and haven't had the time to post on the blog before now. Today wasn...

A couple of evenings ago I decided to see if I could catch some Linnets at the site near Billinge. There are plenty of juvenile Linnets abou...

The Swallow roost at Scotman's Flash continues to be the focus of our attention. John G went yesterday evening and caught 56 Swallows an...

On Friday evening I went back to the reedbed site to put out the actinic moth trap for National Moth Night and to ring more Swallows at the ...