Thursday's birding involved the annual trip to Weeting on the Norfolk/Suffolk border. I set off at 5.30 to avoid traffic on the A17, but above all to get to Weeting before the usual heat haze set in. I got there at 8.30, well before the heat haze, but the stone curlews weren't playing; they had gone over the rise in the ground, as usual. It wasn't ( Read more... )

Monday's birding began with news from the bird information services of two migrating cranes which had taken up residence, as migrating cranes like to, on a newly-sprouting field near Scarborough. In spite of the rather vague directions, I drove to what looked to be the right field, and was happy to see half a dozen blokes parked on the verge all ( Read more... )

Today was spent driving to Titterstone Clee Hill in Shropshire, where a few ring ouzels stop off to feed up in the last week of March, first week of April. They were not showing when I arrived about 10am, so I spent a couple of hours walking the tracks on the hillside; when I returned to the car park I was informed by other birders that the birds ( Read more... )

Yesterday I began the mighty quest for 35 birds ( Read more... )