Believe it or not, there is an animal in Shropshire that spends more of its time sleeping than I do. During the course of one year, they spend up to 9 months of their time fast asleep or resting.…

Volunteer Mike is on a mission this year to record and photograph as many birds as possible in the UK. His first blog features a visit to Earl's Hill nature reserve.

The Bilberry bumblebee is particularly attractive, with bright yellow bands on the thorax and a rich orange-red tail covering around two-thirds of the abdomen. Depending on the season, queens…

I am getting increasingly upset when I hear the news that my species is declining so rapidly that we could be extinct within 30 years in the UK. We have been around for 15 million years and…

For me personally one of the best things about taking part in the My 200 challenge is the incentive to go out and experience new places which you wouldn't necessarily have visited.

Another lovely sunny day and another quick afternoon dash to a local beauty spot on the hunt for one of my favourite species, the Dipper.

One of the areas that I have come across during my research into good, relatively local, birding spots has been the Wirral, and over the first couple of months of this year I have visited on a…

Not that I need much excuse to go birding but a free afternoon on a glorious sunny late winter’s day gave me the perfect excuse to nip out to SWT’s Earl’s Hill nature reserve, on the hunt for…

One of the birds on my ‘tricky’ list, and one that is unfortunately not doing very well nationally, is the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. It is a bird that I have never seen, so on Saturday 2nd March…

March 11th – Rowton, North Shropshire

March 27th 2019 – Titterstone Clee

Mike headed for the River Dee to tick off a number of species of birds on his quest to count 200 in 2019.