Tag: Birdwatch
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Birdwatch x 3
The stack of wildlife magazines waiting to be read has been growing alarmingly. To try and tackle it this is a look at three issues of Birdwatch magazine, June, July and August 2026, issues 408 to 410. Firstly though an encouraging update on the Guga hunt. Experts at NatureScot have recommended that no licence be…
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Birdwatch, HART Wildlife Rescue and other wildlife notes and news
At HART yesterday morning I was once again in the Isolation Room (is someone trying to tell me something?) then washing up in utility – a process also governed by strict protocols. I have been watching Joanna Page’s series about her experiences volunteering at Wildlife Aid and finding it quite relaxing. Her reactions to various…
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Birdwatch November 2024
When I said to one of the tour leaders on my trip to Norfolk that the egret was my favourite bird, he asked which one. I said I really didn’t mind – Great, Little or Cattle. They share an extraordinary elegance. I should have known it wouldn’t be as simple as that. There are both…
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Birdwatch September 2024
The recovery of the Peregrine Falcon, a species which faced extinction in the UK in the 1950s (pesticides and illegal persecution of course), is welcomed – there are now 1,402 pairs, 62 of them thriving on man-made structures. There is much excitement about rare seabird sightings tempered with a concern that climate change is probably…
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Birdwatch August 2024
This beautiful Collared Dove enjoyed a drink with perfect timing, just as I finished writing this post and was wondering what to use as the headline image. I recently wrote that I tend to avoid blogging about birds in other parts of the world because it stretched the limits of what my brain could absorb.…