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Coal Tits are a fairly regular visitor to most garden feeding stations, with the exception of areas with few trees and in particular few conifers – where we are in the Lincolnshire Fens being a good
There’s been a great piece in the news this week – which even made the BBC news homepage – about how Blackcaps have shifted their European migration route to exploit the food we put out for bird
What a year so far! Summer at Church Farm in Devon was blissfully hot and dry until August arrived. Butterflies and bees flourished on the abundance of wild flowers bursting in the meadows. Our bird
This is a subject we’ve covered in previous years, but it always seems popular so we’re revisiting it again. So, for a start off, we’re really talking about two groups of birds here: The specie
Barn Owl Bonanza 2014 has been a fantastic season for Barn Owls in South Lincolnshire, broods of 6 have been quite common and we have had several pairs rearing second broods. In 30 years of recording
Wildlife In Your Garden, with Vine House Farm Steve and Liz Dudley kindly answer our questions on how they have created their own wildlife garden in the Cambridgeshire fens. Where do you live – town
If there’s one little bird which tends to get overlooked in our countryside and gardens, it’s the Dunnock. Which is all a bit unfair on this most interesting and likable of species, and to make ma
What a beautiful summer so far. Apart from the occasional thunderstorm Devon has been hot and dry. Although recently I was a little concerned to hear our local BBC weatherman using a new technical ter
A question we’re often asked once we’re well into August is why there seems to be fewer birds in the garden. Well there are two main reasons, though the first is the more significant… The birds
New Website In the next few weeks we will be launching a new and improved website. Don’t worry in reality not much will change but things will look a bit different. The new website will be responsi
Living where I do in Sutherland, the north of Scotland, it’s easy to focus on the more exciting species of birds. For example, my modest 7 acres of croft land includes about a quarter of a mile or r
It’s peak time for your garden birds It won’t need us to tell you that right now there’s a lot going on with garden birds. Some adults are still on the nest, others are feeding fledglings hidden
Ospreys and Crossbills at Loch Fleet I’m lucky enough to live just 5 miles from the Loch Fleet National Nature Reserve. The reserve is in East Sutherland and just south of the coastal village of Gol
If you’re a regular reader of our blog page, then this won’t be the first time you’ve read about live mealworms. In fact, we could be reasonably accused of banging-on about the subject but we ma
Where I live in the Scottish Highlands It occurred to me in the last week or so just how miserable and angry being a nature lover can make you – though fair to say that I’m fairly close to the far
It might only be a brief and unusually warm spell in the middle of March, but after the rain and winds of recent months doesn’t it make us all feel better! And the warmer and sunnier days have also