The Barley Birder

On Monday (3rd August) I popped down to a site at Lee-on-the-Solent to ring some  Common Swift   Apus apus  chicks. You may recall the sto...

If the weatherman is to be believed, and I have no reason to doubt him, last night was the coldest night of the year. The sub-zero tempera...

Last Sunday, 9th November, I had a call from local birder Dan Houghton, informing me of a cetacean corpse that had washed up on the beach a...