Northamptonshire Birding

Hello Less wind today but still stronger than I expected. Some nice sunshine but cool and some wintry showers. Good numbers of Meadow P...

Hello Strong gales again today and with heavy rain this evening which has initiated plenty of amphibian activity. Despite spending much...

Hello The Great Grey Shrike appeared again on hedging this morning between Hanging Houghton and Cottesbrooke but this bird is spending lo...

Hello More powerful gusts and some sudden showers interspersed with nice periods of sunshine today and it actually went calm for a time t...

Hello In February I was most fortunate to be able to visit the island of Jamaica in the West Indies with a view to seeing some of the end...

Hello No birds of note today in very windy conditions - a Raven showed again at Hanging Houghton and the Yellowhammer flock in fields bet...

Hello Very windy today courtesy of Storm Gareth and some heavy rain at times too, and it seems like we have some more stormy weather to l...

Hello Eleanor's early morning patrol of the Brampton Valley between Hanging Houghton and Cottesbrooke this morning quickly confirmed ...

Hello We returned home today following a 24 day tour of south east Asia visiting the countries of Laos, Cambodia and Thailand with friend...

Hello A couple more ringing returns have filtered through recently:- A juvenile Robin was caught and ringed at Harrington Airfield on 2...

Hello The Annual General Meeting of the Northants Bird Club is due to be held at the Fishing Lodge, Pitsford Reservoir on Wednesday 6th M...

Hello Our apologies for the lack of blog messages recently, we have been off-line for several days! Last Friday (22nd) a bird ringing s...

Hello The amazing weather continues! At least a few of the Crossbills have maintained a presence at Irchester Country Park during the w...

Hello Unseasonably warm weather in the UK and Northants is hardly the conditions we expect in February and it doesn't seem to have pr...

Hello Yesterday (Saturday) and some ringing at Glyn Davies Wood to the west of the county took place which resulted in some good numbers ...