Happy spring everyone. Start Birding classes are in full swing and we’ve been having some amazing wildlife experiences. One of the most notable was watching a full reed dance by local great crested grebes at St Aidan’s nature reserve. On Tuesdays, classes range from 2 hours to a full day
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Hi folks Not such a happy new year after all! We didn’t even get started with classes in 2021. Just hours before I was to run my first group of the year I was stopped in my tracks, having to contact clients in the late evening after Boris’s message to
Continue readingHello birdwatchers Well, it’s been the most dreadful year and not one I’ve felt like writing about hence my comparative silence on my blog and on social media. Like so many people, I’ve lost a loved one and have had some very difficult family issues to manage. What usually keeps
Continue readingIsn’t it amazing how a powerful, dominant species such as a human being can be thwarted by the tiniest of microorganisms. Coronavirus Covid-19 is sweeping the globe, people are dying in their thousands the nation is in lockdown. The uncertainty about our health and the financial implications of the pandemic
Continue readingI know it will come as a blow to many of my wonderful customers but I’ve had to make the decision to postpone my indoor and outdoor group classes for a few weeks. This has been a difficult call for me to make as I originally thought that we could
Continue readingJust as we were looking forward to a break in Brexit media coverage and the chance to enjoy some spring weather after all those destructive storms, an even bigger challenge has presented itself. A tiny lifeform in China has mutated and is now affecting humans around the world. Even if
Continue readingOver the next few weeks, birdwatchers across the UK will witness an epic avian exchange. Thousands of winter visitors will leave our shores and will be replaced by spring migrants; some from as far away as South Africa. Spring migration is a very special time of year. Unlike autumn migration
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It’s the end of January and time to start making preparations for this year’s Big Garden Birdwatch. This annual survey, organised by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), has been running for 41 years and is now the world’s largest wildlife survey. To enable more people to
Continue readingIt’s a crisp, sunny day in mid-January and I’m watching the birds in my garden. It’s been relatively mild over the winter months so far and there is still plenty of natural food available. This is quite unusual for January when food is usually scarce. Fewer siskin, redpoll and brambling
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The evenings are really drawing in now and, as autumn and winter are my favourite birding seasons, I’m listening with longing for the sound of returning flocks of pink-footed geese flying over my house. Autumn is the time when our coastlines and wetlands begin to fill with flocks of wildfowl
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