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23/07/2024

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22/07/2024

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19/07/2024

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15/07/2024

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11/07/2024

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21/06/2024

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12/06/2024

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04/06/2024

The long days of the middle of the year coincide with the peak of the breeding season for many birds raising young. Just about all of the 'summer migrants' are with us, though, and there are plenty of birds to enjoy.

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28/05/2024

How these charismatic raptors colonised a corner of the post-industrial north.

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21/05/2024

One perfect birding day supplied Ruth Miller with treasures from mountaintop to seashore.

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14/05/2024

The 'seagull' has a bad reputation with some people, but it's really an avian superhero, writes David Lindo.

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10/05/2024

Thirty-minute birder Amanda Tuke squeezes in some therapeutic spring birding on a visit to the city.

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08/05/2024

May is arguably the peak birding period in the UK. It is a time when many patch birders are unwilling to venture far from their local area for fear of missing the 'big one'.

Here are five birds which would be a great find on any 'patch', this month.

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01/05/2024

If you're a bird photographer, sooner or later you need to head to Botswana's Okavango Delta, writes David Tipling.

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24/04/2024

A feast of wildfowl and waders on the rim of Bridgewater Bay.

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17/04/2024

We'll always have Moorhens, won't we? 30-minute birder Amanda Tuke investigates the impact of river pollution on urban birdlife.

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12/04/2024

We're offering our Members the chance to be guided around some of the superb sites that Mike Weedon writes about in his popular column.

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09/04/2024

How teamwork and dedication for Ospreys has helped these beautiful raptors return to the south of England for the first time in 200 years.

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03/04/2024

April is one of the most exciting months of the birding year. It is the time that waders, chats, terns and other summer visitors start to flood through the country. A wonderful time to be out birding, looking for these 5 special birds perhaps?

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27/03/2024

Expecting post-industrial wastelands? Think again says, Jen Jones. This is one of the UK's most underrated birding hotspots.

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20/03/2024

Watching wildlife from a boat gives you a new, and often closer, perspective on everything, writes Ruth Miller.

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16/03/2024

30-minute birder Amanda Tuke visits a nature reserve under threat in south-east London, and investigates controversial plans.

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12/03/2024

A new study has shown that Short-eared Owls travel much further than previously thought.

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11/03/2024

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10/03/2024

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07/03/2024

They're one of the first birds most of us will learn to recognise, but there's much more to them than you might think, writes David Lindo...

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04/03/2024

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01/03/2024

Bali remains an up-and-coming destination for all the family - and it's also a place where you can still see good numbers of special Indonesian birds, writes David Callahan.

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26/02/2024

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Find out why more birders are getting into watching moths like this New Forest Burnet, with a photo-packed feature from @JLowenWildlife exclusive to BW members - https://members.birdwatching.co.uk/read/moths-the-birdwatchers-insects

Is it a bird? No, it's a Hummingbird Hawk-moth! Find out why more and more birders are getting into mothing with a photo-packed feature from James Lowen, exclusively for BW members, at https://members.birdwatching.co.uk/read/moths-the-birdwatchers-insects

In the last few issues of Bird Watching, our own Mike Weedon has talked about the disturbing decline in Chaffinch numbers in many parts of the UK, especially in urban and suburban areas. Along with Finches Friend, we're going to be looking at what you can do to help stop the spread of diseases that are affecting them. Watch this video with former Springwatch presenter Martin Hughes-Games, take a look at https://www.finchesfriend.com, and go to members.birdwatching.co.uk or download our app to read more about what YOU can do.

Sometimes, it's best to stop moving and let the birds come to you. Windy day up on Burrough Hill, so apologies for the noise.

We've been out and about this week, looking for late spring migrants, listening for birdsong, and discovering a few new birding sites. What have you been up to?

Editor Matt Merritt went for a walk near the office on the way home last night - can you identify the bird singing behind him?

A couple of weeks ago, we were up in the Scottish Highlands with one of our regular Bird Watching Readers' Holidays, based at the Grant Arms Hotel, Grantown-on-Spey. Highlights included a day over at the west coast. Here we are at Gruinard Bay, looking over to Gruinard itself, where highlights included Great Northern and Red-throated Divers in winter and summer plumages (and everything in between), Black Guillemot, Hen Harrier, and White-tailed Eagles. To read more about this, and about how to book any of our readers' holidays, see our members' website and app at www.members.birdwatching.co.uk

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This time last week, we were up at the Grant Arms, Grantown-on-Spey, enjoying our spring readers' holiday. The weather was great, so we saw a lot of eagles, both Golden and White-tailed, as well as a full set of divers (Red-throated, Black-throated, Great Northern and White-billed) on the Moray and west coasts. But a highlight, as ever, was watching Black Grouse lek - no females on display, but some very active and noisy males, here shown digiscoped using a handheld mobile phone. For more information on Bird Watching Magazine, including how to become a member and how to book on to one of our readers' holidays, go to https://www.birdwatching.co.uk