Friday. There was a frosty outlook and a cold south-easterly and I was ready for a spot of fresh air birding. Once again a hunting Barn Owl stole the morning headlines as it put on a short display over Stalmine Moss. Soon it was gone, back to roos…
Author: Phil Slade
Natural England’s Kill List
Following on from Wednesday’s post about the wholesale Killing of Ravens here is another troubling story. This also concerns Natural England. Natural England is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for E…
Scotland Leads The Way
Good morning folks. There is a health warning on the below. It will make you angry. From Rob Sheldon – RDS Conservation 11th December 2018 Rob Sheldon – RDS Conservation 11th December 2018.”Previous information on the subject of licensed Rav…
What A Week
Another week goes by. There was more rain and wind with no chance of another ringing session and little in the way of productive birding. But Sunday dawned much better and a promise of sunshine so I set off birding over Stalmine and Rawcliffe Moss…
A Frosty Gulf
Last week was one to forget, seven days of wind and rain with no birding. But now on Tuesday morning it was time to make amends with a much needed visit to Gulf Lane for Project Linnet. A quick check on Monday evening with on-line DemOn revealed …
Trends
The weather’s becoming unfit for man or beast. Storm Diana is hurtling up the Irish Sea and it looks like there will be zero birding or ringing for a few days or more. So for this post I’m turning to the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) and rec…
Linnet Time
Regular readers will remember that the Linnets haven’t played ball this year with their appearances at Gulf Lane limited to small flocks of 10-40 individuals performing short and swift flyovers. There’s been little sign of the much bigger flocks of 300…
Birders Cock-Up?
Never let it be said that Another Bird Blog doesn’t offer a variety of stories. We continue the rule of thumb today with a story about Modern Art in the Serbian town of Kikinda, a samll town that is home to the planet’s largest roosting populatio…
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Oh dear, the blog stats don’t look too good today after a week without a post. But Blogger tells me that “Page View All Time History” passed the one million mark at 1,008,401 from 1428 posts since August 2009, so all is not lost. Someone deserves a me…
Daylight Robbery
I’ve been robbed of a number of days birding lately by our November weather, the month that invariably brings gloomy, wet and windy days across the Atlantic from the direction of North America. I blame Donald Trump. There’s no other feasible expl…