I had hoped to get a net up in the garden for a couple of hours this morning but the rain arrived earlier than forecast and continued throug...

When I posted details of the Goldcrests that were controlled at Billinge this autumn ( link here ) I was still waiting for the ringing infor...

The only slightly redeeming feature of the current run of mild and miserable weather is that my heating bills are much lower than usual as a...

It was a fantastic autumn for Goldcrests at Billinge and large numbers were ringed even before the big influx of continental birds that came...

Autumn migration more or less fizzled out at Billinge in the last week with a diminishing number of birds seen and ringed on the 3 visits I ...

The 20th was quite windy with occasional light showers skirting past the site but it didn't deter birds from moving as might have been e...

The forecast for this morning was for a welcome, if brief, lull in the run of wet and windy weather so I decided to take advantage of it to ...