It’s that time again. Last year when I did this, I’d been birding in Spain in the spring and then the Galapagos and Ecuador in the autumn. This year has been less dramatic—no albatrosses or toucans—but I did see some great stuff in Crete in April.
First, though, some local stuff. There have been Little Grebes [...]
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Bird of the Year 2007
31 December 2007 – 3:59 pm
Sparrow!
6 August 2007 – 9:50 pm
I was reading in the garden today and heard a distinctive chirp: there was a female house sparrow on the bird feeder. Once, this would have been normal, but British house sparrow numbers have plummeted in the past few years; the sparrow population of London declined 75% between 1999 and 2004. It was the first [...]
God’s cock and hen
25 July 2006 – 9:40 am
I woke up this morning to see something fluttering against the inside of the window-panes. Without my glasses, I couldn’t think what it was - it seemed too big for a moth and too small and whirring for a bird. It turned out to be a wren. They’re such nice things, but they are slightly [...]