Remember this post from last year? A Very Regular Owl Every summer we get a visit from the local tawny owl. We have a lot of tawny owls in the area. For the last three years there has been a nest in a small copse about a quarter mile from our house. You can year [...]
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Return of the Owl
Posted in Birds on June 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
More Waxwings
Posted in Birds, tagged waxwings, Woburn on December 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A few days after I went to see the waxwings in Woburn the flock finished eating the berries on that particular tree moved on, so I saw them at just the right time. Mind you, there have been reports of waxwings from all across the UK, so this definitely seems to be a ‘waxwing winter’. [...]
Tawny Owl in the Snow
Posted in Birds on December 21, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Look at this. You wait ages for a post and then three come at once… I’ve just driven home from the station after a particularly bad commute on the train from London. I’m driving Mrs BWM’s Ford Fiesta at the moment while she uses the executive motor (she has further to drive). How come a [...]
Fieldnotes: 19th December 2010 – The Woburn Waxwings
Posted in Birds, Fieldnotes on December 19, 2010 | 4 Comments »
So the snow fell yesterday and it’s still here today. The warmest it got was minus 4 degrees at midday, so the snow is still crisp and powdery. I took Scarlett for a quick walk to the field behind my house this morning. There were the usual rabbit tracks and quite a few fox tracks, [...]
Short Tales from the Wood
Posted in Birds, That's not a badger!, tagged hedgehog, tawny owl, wren on June 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been busy lately – working in the garden and down in Wiltshire for the solstice – so I haven’t had a chance to get out to the woods for a couple of weeks. However, I’d like to get a few minor experiences on the record. They aren’t really enough for a post on their [...]
House Martins
Posted in Birds, tagged House Martins on April 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here you go. Here’s another one of those short diary posts. At the weekend, my wife and I were discussing the House Martins that nest every year in the eaves of our house, and trying to remember when they usually return from migration. Neither of us really knew – an unpardonable gap in our knowledge [...]
Bird Update
Posted in Birds, tagged Birds, birdwatching, Blackcap, Goldfinch, Treecreeper on July 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Just a quick note to say that my birdwatching efforts are progressing nicely. Ever since we started putting out niger seeds for the birds last year, we’ve had a regular gang of Goldfinches visiting the garden. They’re very good-looking birds, and they have an amazing capacity for sitting on the feeder and eating steadily for [...]
Birds of Bedfordshire: No.45 – The Dunnock
Posted in Birds, That's not a badger!, tagged Bedfordshire, Birds, birdwatching, dunnock, twitcher on June 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’s confession time again. I’ve been guilty of occasional birdwatching for many years. Nothing too serious – putting out food in the garden, listening to birdsong, watching the buzzards over the fields – the usual stuff. I thought I could handle it. But now I’ve crossed a line. I’ve joined the hardcore of birdwatching. I’ve [...]
Birdwatching – 2nd June 2009
Posted in Birds, That's not a badger!, tagged birdwatching, bullfinch, owl, robin, tawny owl on June 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On Tuesday I went to the wood and, as recorded below, I didn’t see any badgers. In the absence of badgers, I spent the evening watching birds, and I want to make some notes on these – hence the separate post. It always amazes me what you can see if you sit quietly and unobtrusively [...]
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