Oh the joyful music of male Blackbirds singing!  Throughout the day and especially in early evenings and mornings their delightful music has been hard to ...

Warrants are out for the arrestof a trio of trouble-hit characters who have vanished from their former haunts around the village. Volunteers’ annual ...

Main Photo: Skylark (Alauda arvensis) There was I, gazing up into the apparently empty sky with my ‘bins’ when a passing dog walker on the public footpath ...

Gotcha! The bird who arrives back from its winter coastal retreat is again with us just in time for April Fool’s day – all dressed up and ready to play the ...

Among a crowd of elephants and hippos at a watering hole somewhere in Africa right now is an elegant little wader picking its way carefully through a forest ...

After my local record of 118 sightings of different bird species in 2022 I decided to try and go one better in 2023. But as 120 is a nice round number I ...

I’ve never been a Neighbours fan but as I tramped one muddy public footpath alongside a Cranleigh field last month a little bird flew overhead and reminded me ...

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 ...