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Having found a young swallow on the floor of our workshop here at Vine House Farm, I fetched a ladder and took it back up to the nest above - it was cold and not very lively, and I didn’t really thi
In times of low rainfall, ground feeding birds such as Blackbirds are often unable to find sufficient natural food and in particular earthworms, as the worms are well below ground level and in damper
We still have a few Whooper Swans feeding on the rape field at Baston Fen. The most I have counted is 14 but there is a different number every day. The number is constant through the day so all I can
Defra have published their Wild Bird Index for 2009 (from 1970) and results indicate a decline in many farmland birds, woodland birds, water and wetland birds, seabirds and wintering waterbirds breedi
This morning I saw 10 Barn Owls flying on my journey round my farms. Unusual to see so many so I am wondering why they have not been able to catch sufficient food in the long nights that we have at
This morning I read an article in the National Farmers Union magazine about the declines in farmland birds. The author was saying that as we are using less chemicals on our farms than we were doing 20
During the cold weather in December we have had a few extra Swans visiting our fields and they are still with us. We have had 7 Bewick Swans, pictured, and 3 Whooper Swans. They are feeding with about
One day in June this year my wife found a dead bird on Hunstanton beach with a ring on, she wasn’t sure of the species but without saying anything to me she sent the ring number to the address on th
Which birds are affected? Greenfinches are reported most frequently, but other finches and house sparrows are also susceptible to trichomonosis. Formerly, it was seen in pigeons and doves and some bir
BBC Countryfile is a show about the people, places and stories making the news in the British countryside. It was great to have Adam Henson, the presenter, and the rest of the BBC film crew on the far