We interrupt your regularly scheduled Bird Blog to bring you an important news bulletin. Summer is quite an exciting time for birding because we get so many colourful characters flying in from oversees; many of them expected and some of them not. The bird we'll be talking about today is an example of the latter,… Continue reading Red-Footed Falcon – A Surprise Vagrant!
The heaviness of autumn has truly draped itself upon us. At some point in the last couple of weeks the world became just a little more muffled under the constant pattering of rain. I know that soon I'll be listening to the wind keening down the chimney and breathing in the smoky haze of winter… Continue reading Rook – Resplendent Requiems
Can you believe we're already into the second month of the year? February has risen above the other months of the year for me since we gained that extra holiday in Ireland, but it still feels like a relatively quiet month. To jazz up this dull period, we thought we'd write about a bird of… Continue reading Buzzard – An Unexpected Comeback Story
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