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Chris Farthing's bird highlights of April 2020

Dave Clark explores the motivations behind one of Britain’s most popular wildlife related activities

The charm of the chiffchaff lies in its subtlety. It is what it is. Undemonstrative, unpretentious and unassuming, an all encompassing understatement.

Chris Farthing takes us through his bird highlights of March 2020

February 2020 continued the theme of most of this winter, being mild and wet. This generally limits bird movement and leads to few surprises. We had to wait for the very early stages of the ‘…

January was a wet but mild month, giving birds little reason to move around, therefore resulting in few highlights. There were two exceptions to this, both of which were unfortunately brief.…

From first glance, it may seem like London can only be a habitat for birds which thrive in built up areas. Pigeons, for example, have curled toes, once adapted to life on rocky cliff faces, which…