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
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
Continue readingWhen everyone starts to mourn the loss of the summer and dreads the thought of the dark nights, that is when I start to get excited about the months to come. Am I mad? Well some might say that I am, but I get this feeling because I know what
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