A moderately windy day limited my ringing options to the woodland at Haigh Hall. I found a couple of sheltered spots and tried a few differ...

The forecast for Saturday was for wall to wall sunshine after a frosty start and very light winds so I decided to give Longshaw a try. I had...

Yesterday the moth trap produced the first Frosted Orange of the autumn. This attractive moth brightened up what was otherwise another poor ...

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...

Well I am very tired. It is only the 9th of September (or was when I started this post) and I have been out ringing on 16 occasions this mon...

It has been a busy month so far with eight ringing sessions completed in the first 5 days. Most of these sessions have involved catching S...

  Dashed home from work and went down to Scotman’s Flash, Wigan to try for roosting Swallows. I only got there at 19:15 which only gave m...