November is usually a settled month with little bird movement, following the busy autumn migration period. This year hasn’t been a typical year though, with migration going on later than usual.…

October can be a frustrating month here. It is the month when more rare birds arrive in the UK than any other, but these birds rarely make it far inland. Here we are lucky to see a few of the late…

September is always an unpredictable month here. Whilst it is the peak of the autumn migration season, it can often be a month with a lot of good weather, and this sometimes means that the…

Historically August has been one of the best birding months of the year here. There are plenty of common passage migrants which we are almost certain to see, and the month usually brings the odd…

July is usually a quiet month here. There is always some hope of getting an unusual bird either through post-breeding dispersal or from an early autumn migrant, but over the years good birds in…

June is always a quiet month here. Birds are busy breeding, so we tend to only see species which breed here or nearby. An exception which becomes more likely towards the end of the month is the ‘…

A typical May here sees the tail-end of spring migration for the first half of the month, with the second half being more settled with little bird movement and our summer visitors settling down to…

April is one of the months which is all about migration. Much of the month is very predictable, with the various common passage migrants and returning breeding birds generally arriving within a…

March is always an interesting month here as it sees the start of the spring migration period. Short distance migrants can start to appear in early March, with the first birds from sub-Saharan…

February is usually a calm-before-the-storm, the last quiet month of winter before migration season kicks off in March. Although we didn’t have any rare birds, our regular winter visitors often…