Axe Birding

Just as the natural world thinks autumn is upon us, the sun comes out! Lovely it is though - finally the shorts are out! Looking up the Est...

With a new moon last night, and a morning high tide, I thought a wander around the marshes this morning would be a good idea with wading bir...

A text from Dad shortly before I started work yesterday had me scurrying down to Black Hole Marsh in the rain to see a splendid adult Wood S...

Before I elaborate on the subject in the post title, I should mention the birding that I've done over the past few days. Tuesday I had a...

A couple of years ago a summer plumage White-winged Black Tern spent a day at Lodmoor - as I have never seen an adult White-winged Black be...

The River Axe was mentioned on the BBC National News several times today - but for the wrong reasons. A huge amount of rain (and I'm sur...

Last night we just had to go out, it wasn't raining and the sun could actually be seen! Where better to go than Lyme Regis, and we enjo...

Yesterday I was shown around some private farm building and stables, to look at a pleasingly decent number of Swallow nests. I was really e...

Well I'm sure any blog viewers I have left are fed up of that baby Barn Owl they keep seeing when they click to look on this blog! On th...

My Schedule 1 license for ringing Barn Owls came in to use last night, as I had time to visit a near by nest box. This, pleasingly, reveal...

Well the weather has been a bit, shall we say, unseasonal! It can't be good for breeding birds up and down the land - very worrying ind...