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 ...

Looking twice reveals a surprise presence - by @Crane_Spotter We are all excited if we receive an unexpected package at Christmas - and most of us get the ...

One annoying aspect of birding is when you hear an extremely brief distant call - and then silence prevails. What was that?! Chances are you’ll never know. ...