News and Advice on Keeping and Caring For Birds
Gear Up For The Big Garden Birdwatch: 24th-26th January
Reading Time: 9 minutes An annual event, the Birdwatch is the biggest garden wildlife survey in the world, with hundreds of thousands of ornithophiles coming together. See more here.
Starlings and one of nature’s finest spectacles
Reading Time: 8 minutes Despite being one of the most well-known garden birds in the UK, the Starling is actually one of the species we need to be the most concerned about? They are considered to be one of the fastest declining birds in the UK and have been cropping up on the UK Red List of Conservation Concern for more than 20 years now. In this article we take a look at that mesmerising phenomena that is murmuration, as well as their wider behaviour.
A Guide to British Wagtails
Reading Time: 9 minutes Wagtails are delightful little birds and are so called because they do just that – wag their tails frantically as they go about their business. In Great Britain, we have three native species – the Pied Wagtail, the Grey Wagtail, and the Yellow Wagtail, which is a summer migrant. In this blog, we take a look at each of them, to find out more about these charming and animated characters.