Planning a 10-Day West Coast USA Road Trip Itinerary
Going along the West Bank of the US had been in my mind since the day I figured out I'd show up for work. Who hasn't imagined about an excursion...
Category: Trips
5 Of The Best Spots For Bird-Watching In South Africa
South Africa, famous for its diverse ecosystems and rich birdlife, offers birdwatchers a unique opportunity to explore some of the world's most spectacular birding destinations. With nearly 900 species living...
Wild Birds Unlimited Wins Prestigious Franchise Marketing Leadership Award
Carmel, IN – Wild Birds Unlimited (WBU), the leading yard bird feeding specialty retail franchise, walked yonder from this year’s Franchise Customer Experience Conference winning multiple innovation awards, including the...
Being Seasonally Savvy: A Wintertime Tip
Let’s talk inchworms.
Wait…what does that have to do with feeding birds during winter? So glad you asked. It’s really a unconfined story.
Believe it or not, inchworms are an important source...
GBBC: As Simple as it Gets
Feeding birds…watching birds…counting birds. Yep, it must be February and these three simple deportment can make a world of difference.
How so? Well, it’s the month for the Great Yard Bird...
Nesting: Bringing Bird Families Home
Think Spring!
What a unconfined time of year! Longer days and warmer temperatures help to rapidly reawaken the natural world virtually us during this true season of renewal. Our fields and...
Birds & Plants: The Choices We Make Matter
You may be thinking, “So, what is the big deal with so-called native plants? A plant is a plant. What possible difference can it make as to the nomination of...
Hummingbirds: The Best Bird Mom Ever!
It’s mighty unvigilant to single out a single bird type and declare them the weightier mom ever. Right?
But let’s just see how strong a specimen can be made that hummingbirds...
Fathers Day is for the Birds!
Not all bird fathers are alike, that is for sure! Some are doting and devoted parents, while others are totally missing in action.
So to help tell their stories, here is...
Dont Stop Now! The Perks of Summer Bird Feeding
If you’ve been virtually bird feeding for any length of time, you’ve likely heard the old expression, “I don’t feed the birds in summer considering they don’t need it!”
Well, if...
Water: More Important than Ever!
Water is unchangingly important! So, what’s reverted to make it increasingly important than ever?
Well, if the past few years are any guide, there appears to be many increasingly circumstances occurring...
Caching: Remember or Die!
Would you stake your life on your memory?
For many of us, probably not! But if forced to, how would you deal with a situation where the worthiness to remember where...
Flight Identification of European Passerines and Select Landbirds An Illustrated and Photographic Guide (WILDGuides)- Book Review
This time of year has me up early, in the garden or local patch on sunny storing mornings, vision to the skies, looking for visibly migrating birds. This is known...
Collins BTO Guide to Rare British Birds Book Review
This field guide to the rare birds of Britain and Ireland is the result of an innovative new partnership between Collins and the esteemed British Trust for Ornithology. It brings...
Waders of Europe, Asia and North America: Helm Field Guide (Helm Field Guides)
“Whilst this typesetting was published when in 2005, it’s still one of the weightier Wader guides in my opinion. Easy to use, fantastic artwork showing all birds in all plumage’s...
The Helm Guide to Bird Identification
“This typesetting covers difficult identification issues by looking at tricky species pairs or groups of birds, and comparing and contrasting their respective features. Designed as a field companion, it supplements...
Britains Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland
The most thorough, current, useful, and user-friendly typesetting of its kind, Britain’s Birds has wilt a best-seller since it was originally released and has swiftly wilt the standard photographic identification...
Autumn Migrants Tour Sept 22
The weather wasn’t unconfined for our day tour today with showers and drizzle most of the morning followed by wind and fog in the afternoon! However, we still managed 73...
A Review of our Winter Birdwatching Tours (21/22 Season)
With Spring just virtually the corner, (Wheatears and singing Willow Warblers once seen in Cornwall!!) we thought it would be nice to squint when on some of the highlights of...
West Cornwall Tour for Two
Thursday 14th April 2022
We enjoyed a fantastic day on Thursday 14th April when we were joined on a west Cornwall tour by American birders Beata and Alex. Paul picked...
Recent Devon Tours April 2022
Had two fantastic recent trips to East Dartmoor, Devon in the last week. First last Sunday, with a planned group tour specifically for Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers and Cirl Bunting and...
Spring Tour in West Cornwall
April 24th 2022
Seven guests joined Paul on a tour in search of spring migrants and summer visitors this morning. Meeting at 8am, we started the day with a flyover Sparrowhawk...
Private Tour for Two August 2022
A last minute booking a few days ago meant we got a full morning with Sennen and Mike in Cornwall. We headed for an early sea-watch at Pendeen as...
The Top Ten Episodes of The Birding Life Podcast for 2021
The Birding Life Podcast has been up and running for scrutinizingly 2 years now – what started as a lock-down project, has grown vastitude what I could have overly imagined....
The Belated 12 Birds of Christmas List
This was a post that went out on in our newsletter during December (I guess it doesn't too much to icon that out). We got quite a few responses from...
The Ultimate Southern African Birding Resource Guide
Birding or birdwatching is one of the fastest growing hobbies in the world. Almost daily we read of people that are starting to bird and are looking for translating on...
Birders Readiness Kit
In 1907 the founder of The Scouts, Robert Baden-Powell, penned the famous motto of the group, ‘Be Prepared’. These two words should moreover be the motto of any serious birder....
A Deeper Birding Journey Through Listing
Every year the news filters through of a birder that has chosen to tackle some sort of ‘Big Year’ type challenge.
There have been the increasingly lattermost challenges such as...