Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus) - so surprised to see you Is there any bird sillier than a Pheasant? They stand there beside the road, you cover your ...

Little Owl (Athene noctua) giving you the eye It’s a moonlit dusk in early March when suddenly a two-syllable scream breaks the silence. There it is again, ...

Russian White-fronted Geese It was one of those mornings we had this winter when a foggy grey blanket hung heavily overhead. Some nearby house lights ...

A Merlin with a capture (Falco columbarius) With no traditional pantomimes available to us right now I am pleased to report that, at least in the bird ...

I can report a happy little - or should I say huge - Christmas story this month from the birding world. Regular readers may recall the massive White-tailed ...

A Eurasian Wryneck (Jynx torquilla) in full flight A surprise early Christmas present came my way back on one of those still and lazy September days we ...

A Sparrowhawk eating a Collared Dove in a Surrey garden © Mark Davis Suddenly all peace in the garden is shattered. The ever-watchful Blue Tits switch ...

Bar-Tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica) All was eerily quiet on a clear still night in Cranleigh during lockdown. No cars, no planes, no distant loud ...

Mediterranean Gull (Larus melanocephalus) With the arrival of August it should be holiday time in a nice hot place like Spain or Greece. But the pandemic ...

Teal (Annas crecca) One bonus about birding is that you can do it almost anywhere so the Covid-19 lockdown produced an unexpected challenge. How many ...

White-tailed Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) I was out early for something rather special. A White-tailed Sea Eagle. In Buckinghamshire. Not the place ...

Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) Early May, a Surrey woodland floor blazing with bluebells, fresh lime-coloured leaves emerging from the beeches, and rafts of ...