Eurasian Wryneck It was as if I’d been whisked on board the Tardis and taken back 100 years through time. Here I was, dropped off by The Doctor in ...

European Nightjar, Caprimulgus europaeus. When a good mate of mine used to tell his wife he was popping out with me for a ‘Nightjar’ she later revealed she ...

Swift Few birds are as aptly named as the Swift. May 5th or 6th usually brings in the screaming bulk of Cranleigh’s population. And they will be with us ...

Want to know more about birds in Surrey? Why not join Surrey Bird Club? Subscriptions are only £15 a year and this brings you a quarterly magazine, an ...

Want to know more about birds in Surrey? Why not join nSurrey Bird Club? Subscriptions are only £15 a year and this brings you a quarterly magazine, an annual ...

This is the month of change when we say a last farewell to any lingering birds who spent the winter with us. Last month hundreds of chattering Redwings and ...

‘Croak, croak croak!’ Hear that sound this month and you will probably be looking down into a pond of breeding frogs. But you may just need to look upwards ...

The Greenfinch, that chirpy House Sparrow sized-visitor to the garden and bird table, is in trouble. I was seeing up to 140 in flocks around farms in the ...

If ever a bird got even non-birdwatchers interested then it is the Waxwing. Starling-sized and silky feathered, it is a fruit of harsher winters further north. ...

December - Forget robins, the bird for Christmas is . . . Robins, robins everywhere. Not only real ones but others of all shapes and sizes in Cranleigh’s ...

November – fireworks have arrived The boys are back in town! Or village, if that’s what you prefer to call it. And the girls too. I’m talking of Siskins, ...