Main Photo: The family four take off at dusk. Russian White-fronted Geese © Wes Attridge Remember the cold north easterlies on Christmas Eve? I won’t ...

Main Photo: A female Goosander I’ve done it! Regular readers of my Cranleigh Magazine column may recall how my 2023 attempt to spot as many as 120 ...

Being optimistic has often paid off for me while out birding. I learnt early on that there are rewards in making the effort despite atrocious weather ...

Did you spot recent reports of a survey evaluating people’s knowledge of the natural world? It revealed astounding surprises for nature lovers. Nearly a ...

Memorable encounters with birds are personal affairs. For one person it might be their first  Nightingale singing. For another it could be witnessing a ...

It was one of those weeks in late August when the hot summer begins phasing itself out and cool air sweeps in as the first fingers of autumn begin to grip. ...

There’s been all sorts of naughtiness going on this summer in my garden – and maybe yours too. Dunnocks! They may look drab at first glance but this ...

You may have noticed how things tend to go a bit quiet on the bird front by the third week of June.  Many have bred by then and do not need to keep ...

‘The Tree Pipit is a common summer visitor to this county, arriving regularly in the early half of April, and nesting freely in all the rural districts, as ...

Sunny days bring more of us out into the garden but it is already too late now to enjoy such a richness of birdsong as we did in the Spring. June always ...

I hear them but invariably don’t spot them without a bit of patience. And when they do pop up into view they are soon dashing off. So annoying. ‘Ever so ...

The poor January weather nearly persuaded me to stay indoors all day – but after lunch I got a hunch. Two days earlier I’d ventured out in the mist and, on ...