Occasionally Birding St Helens 2008-2014

The temperature gauge in the car said that it was 12'C today, over 25'C warmer than it was at times last month, but the wind was for...

The Waxwings invasion finally hit St Helens this week, after weeks of dribs and drabs! During the week there were several flocks of 40 - 60 ...

What a winter it's been for Waxwings! Another 17 were reported from Lidl car park in the town centre earlier in the week, but today was ...

I dunno, what can I say? Another flock of Waxwings captured in yet another poor photo. The light was poor, they were silhouetted, it was thr...

We had much better views of the Lapland Bunting today, though it was still difficult to find in the scope. It was in a stubble field with Sk...

The Lapland Bunting at Daisy Hill, Westhoughton showed reasonably well this afternoon, associating with a flock of about 70 Skylarks. Also i...

I can only apologise to the birds concerned for the poor quality of photos today. My only excuse is that the light was so bad... Leighton Mo...