Reed Buntings at Seaton Wetlands
It’s a dull, misty day and the light isn’t great at Seaton Wetlands. There’s a flurry of activity and a Reed Bunting, …
It’s a dull, misty day and the light isn’t great at Seaton Wetlands. There’s a flurry of activity and a Reed Bunting, …
Teal are small, very decorative ducks. The males have chestnut and green coloured heads and strange beige bottoms: The females are subtle …
Since I’m in Lincoln with an hour to spare I’m off to Whisby Nature Park. It’s a classic exhausted gravel pit which …
I’m in Lincoln today and just heading off for a brief visit to Whisby, a park with the possibility of some water …
There’s a Shelduck walking on mud at RSPB Lodmoor. It’s sinking gently, despite its webbed feet, into the black ooze. It’s a …
The Skylarks are busy, here at Aust near Bristol. The RSPB says, “Its recent and dramatic population declines make it a Red …
This Fallow Deer has a lot to say: I’ve just spotted a brown road sign and I’ve diverted the car in the …
I’m paying a quick visit to Aust near Bristol. It’s on the River Severn with a clear view of the two Severn …
No, it’s nothing to do with the bird at all. It’s the background: This Goldfinch is spectacular, isn’t it? Especially against that …
She was looking at the beef steers when she said, “I love the cute tufts of hair on their bellies.” I looked …
There’s a Dunnock in the gloom at Seaton Wetlands. Once you look carefully you’ll never view them as just a brown bird. …
There’s a Nuthatch calling like the alarm on an abandoned car, or the insistent signal of a reversing lorry, overhead. Then, with …
There’s a Chaffinch shouting ‘Pink!’ at me. That’s where finches got their name; from their call of ‘Fink’ or ‘Pink’. They have …
The Coots at Stover Country Park are busy. I can see their nest in the bushes, barely above the water level. They …
I always feel sad when I see a bird which is so spectacularly out of place. Whether it’s an American Blackbird in …
This male Mallard looks so healthy in the spring sunshine: It takes a lot of nutritious food to make the complex chemistry …
The life of a Blue Tit is short and full of peril. Their average lifespan is between two and three years. The …
I’ve loved Greenfinches ever since I first saw them in the back yard as a child. I drew them in my 1970s …
There’s a distant Marsh Harrier across the water at RSPB Lodmoor. I’ve seen some wonderful photographs of it that were achingly close. …
I enjoyed going to RSPB Lodmoor in Weymouth so much that I decided to have another trip. I stopped off on the …
The RSPB say there are 2,300 breeding pairs of Aix galericulata, the Mandarin Duck, in the UK. I’m very glad about that. …