If we didn’t have a Robin as our much-celebrated Christmas bird then I can suggest a likely alternative. It’s slightly bigger and, like many Santa Claus ...

Muck, muck, glorious muck! It can be a magnet for birds. The trouble is that with changing farming practices there is not so much of it around these days. ...

Ouch! Not another big bill. Hasn’t it been going mad! We’re all feeling the pinch. Seemingly everything’s been going up since Brexit/Covid/the war in ...

There’s a fascinating little bird they call ‘common’ but like many others who share its first name – such as Crossbill and Gull – it isn’t. Well not around ...

Main Photo: Magpie, Pica pica It was the best of times – until they turned up. Some noisy builders started work just when I was looking forward to a ...

Have you ever accidentally re-found something you thought was long lost?  Perhaps it was an old photo of a loved one that was slipped into a rarely used ...

Those extremely rare local visitors with the ‘golden spectacles’ I wrote about last month - the pair of smart Little Ringed Plovers - ended up staying longer ...

Main Photo - Litte Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius) It’s always nice to go ‘shopping’ and to return with something exciting you weren’t expecting to find. ...

(Main Photo - European Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)) Lots of people ask me ‘What birds are you seeing at the moment?’ and I’m usually happy to oblige ...

Boing boing! I’m all of a bounce despite the awful winter weather we’ve been having. Freezing fields, driving rain, biting winds and local floods - not ...

Main picture: Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) The story so far…last month I reported my progress in trying to see 120 bird species in and around ...

Around 105 bird species may be typically seen in and around Cranleigh during a full year if you try hard enough. And that gave me an idea. What if I could ...