A pair of Great Crested Grebes turned up on a Willinghurst Fishery pond this spring, the first there for around 20 years. Weeks of watching from a public ...

It has been a long, hot summer, so our Cranleigh birder opened a pub. Four bars, no meals, water only, open all hours. Twenty species have already flown in, ...

2026 is shaping up to be one of Britain's great 'Quail years'. Our Crane Spotter takes up the trail of a bird more often heard than seen, and remembers a ...

Our Crane Spotter follows two pairs of garden birds through their breeding season — a Blue Tit drummer and his Great Tit neighbours. Final score: GT United 7, ...

Same time of year, same place, even the very same bush — our Crane Spotter welcomes the Common Whitethroat back to Cranleigh Common after its astonishing ...

Main Photo: A female Reed Bunting If you are thumbing through a bird field guide then one of the last entries you will come across is a dapper little fella ...

For a couple of years I had noticed a steady passage of Red Kites passing overhead in the half hour or so before dusk. There were never more than 2 ...

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 ...