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
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Dear friends of Start Birding Our icy blast from the north has certainly brought in those winter migrants As we birdwatched at St Aidan’s on Tuesday, a family of whooper swans appeared and landed in the lake in front of us. They have come all the way from Iceland to
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Dear friends of Start Birding Welcome to our August Newsletter. All around us are signs that autumn migration is underway in the birding world and excitement is growing for arrival of birds from the Arctic and Scandinavia. Most of our seabirds have left their breeding grounds, with the exception of gannets
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More photos of our Glorious Gannet boat trip and visit to RSPB Bempton Cliffs, towering chalk cliffs home to 250,000 birds.
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Photos of our Glorious Gannet boat trip and visit to RSPB Bempton Cliffs, towering chalk cliffs home to 250,000 birds.
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
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