Starlings sing all year round. True that in spring they spend more time atop vantage points near their nest, throat feathers fluffed, wing...

The Common Gulls at the local park have been back for a few weeks, slowly building up in numbers to about a hundred today. I searched for ...

I have only once before seen Moorhens allopreening, and I could not photograph the behaviour. This morning I was luckier. I saw the pa...

Last Wednesday 1st of November I went to Pickering Park. There were six Mute Swans. The resident cob (841 yellow ring), followed by the re...

Corvid researchers have ample anecdotal evidence that crows recognise individual humans: crows are unusually alert and often direct mobb...

In my way to work as I crossed the park I saw a pair of crows with a fledgling. The young one hopped to one adult and was fed. I took my c...

Stock Doves are so intriguing. A combination of shyness and a superficial resemblance to feral pigeons makes them often pass unnoticed. Se...