Bill's Birding

The recent spell of decent weather continued for yesterday's LNHS survey at Bookham Common, and as usual I was treated to a number of...

In some kind of weird series of extremely unlikely events, the past 24 hours since returning from University have already seen me add two ne...

It was only as I packed up and left Worcester for the Easter Holidays this afternoon that I realised just how much I'm going to miss Gri...

I know most normal people normally do these kind of anniversary tributes on the exact date of passing, but I'm not normal. It was exactl...

Groundhoppers are the the first members of the Orthoptera family to emerge, with nymphs overwintering and becoming active in spring. I sa...

A strange sound greeted me as I walked into the kitchen at University the other afternoon. It was a quiet, muffled but intriguing sound comi...

I managed to get in a couple of hours on the patch yesterday evening in the vain hope that the Little Gull would return, or an Osprey would ...

With the recent movement of birds through Worcestershire, it was only a matter of time before a  Little Gull appeared on the patch. I was...

I was lucky enough to be invited to a moth-trapping session organised last night at Monkwood (a WT reserve located north of Worcester)...

A slightly quieter session was had on the patch yesterday, with the departure of the  Garganey  pair as well as the two Wheatear, although a...