At the time ‘the general public’ are enjoying their summer holidays, birders are watching their local nature reserves with eager anticipation for the arrival of waders. July and August is the start of the autumn migration and every day is special when birds are on the move. Birds will move
Continue readingSunday May 7th saw the first bird-walk for the Friends of Lawnswood Cemetery. It was a bird song identification walk led by Linda Jenkinson of Start Birding. A group of about 25-30, seven of whom were “Friends”, the others more experienced bird watchers, had assembled in the car park by
Continue readingThanks to the development of the new Kirkstall railway station, I’ve been able to offer a new circular walk on my programme of events. You can book onto my tour of Bramley Falls Wood, Hawksworth Woods and Newlay Wood, which takes place on Tuesday 31st January, via the events page on
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Hello birdwatchers I hope you’ve all had a relaxing Christmas with friends and family and that you’re all looking forward to starting a new year. After what was thrown at us over 2016, I can imagine that many of you have been looking back at the past 12 months and
Continue readingPeople are always coming to tell me that they put out food to attract birds but they only ever get pigeons. If this sounds like you then you’ll be pleased to hear that you can change that. Here’s what could be happening.,,,,,,,, I’m guessing that you’re trying to cut costs. Bird
Continue readingHello birdwatchers It’s been a wonderful few days and I’ve been catching up with jobs around the home. There’s nothing like pottering around in your own space and putting your own little world to rights. One of my not so little jobs was to take down and wash all of
Continue readingHello birdwatchers You may have noticed that the RSPB has announced the results of the Big Garden Birdwatch survey that took place in January this year. Over half a million households took part in the survey and over 8.5 million birds were counted in total. The blackbird was the most
Continue readingWild goose chasing in Scotland has always been one of my favourite winter activities and last weekend I took 6 birdwatchers on a 3 day tour of Dumfries and Galloway. As usual we stayed with Linda and David Birdsall at the fabulous Millbrae House B&B and Self Catering Accommodation. Thanks
Continue readingIt’s that time of year again when I look back at 12 months of birdwatching classes and trips with the aim of listing my top 5 birding moments. I think that this year has been easier than most of the others, mainly because so much has happened locally (which gives
Continue readingIt just goes to show that you can’t believe everything you read on the Internet. That was certainly true on Saturday for Start Birding’s trip to the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Staveley Nature Reserve near Ripon. We set off in pouring rain with a forecast of an unrelenting downpour for the
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