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 ...

‘Mad as a March hare’ is the still used centuries’ old declaration uttered by countryfolk to describe anyone acting unpredictably, oddly and excitedly. The ...

It’s a late afternoon in January and I’m out in the freezing fields to witness a spectacular show.  The miserable mist and drizzle plaguing us in the early ...

Main Photo: Cormorant drying out its wings © Dave Nurney The rare blue sky of a raw winter’s morning reveals them. I count the evidence of over a dozen. ...

Christmas is coming and if it ushers in a big freeze then many of us will be hoping it won’t rival the worst British winter for 200 years in 1962-1963. I ...