Time’s running out to catch the Linnets at Cockerham where the latest food drops show 35 to 45 birds max and where finding a break in the weather for a ringing session becomes a precise art. Very soon the Linnets will be winging their way North to Scot…
Hi Folks.I’m Linking this post to Rain’s Thursday Art Date and her theme this week of “Comedies”. Rain’s Thursday Art Date. Knowing how twitchers are ultra determined and always up for a laugh a story in “The Sun” of 16 February 2020 gave me a sm…
Andy and I had no luck with catching Linnets today. A couple of times we had two and three Linnets in the catching zone but being greedy guys we chose not to release the net but to wait for a bigger catch of five or six or more. This proved a mistake, …
Trying to stay positive is the key. When all around is doom and gloom my glass is half full. Spring is not far away. The sun will shine, rain will stop and birds shall sing. Despite the virus, birds will arrive from Africa, my pliers well oiled an…
Friday Morning wasn’t the finest of late but cloud was high and dry above roads still wet and puddled by weeks of rain. I was desperate for fresh air and to escape from confinement. While there’s still no bird ringing, I decided to drive to …
Being banned from bird ringing other than in one’s own garden is frustrating and annoying. More so when the authorities continue to allow both shooting and fishing to take place in the countryside. We are hopeful that we may be able to recommence our v…
Apologies folks. It’s another post from the locked-in archives. This one from and 9 May 2019. I’m linking this post to Rain Frances my pal in Canada for her Thursday Art Day – Rain Frances.As my artistic ability is zero I digitised a few of the or…
I’m still in lockdown as are many others around the world. Stay positive folks. There is a way out once the politicians and the experts toss a coin. In the meantime for birders needing a fix there’s peripatetic Internet birding. Peripatetic …
No it’s not a mistake. We are headed back to January 2013 and a holiday in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain. With the whole of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Island under strict lockdown, there’s nowhere to go except a shopping trip or a del…
With the UK under severe lockdown there is no bird ringing allowed unless in one’s own garden. With vehicle travel limited to “essential” and “local journeys” only, it’s unlikely I will be able to do much birding or even to get out with a camera….