Hilbre Bird Observatory

A very inhospitable day with such a biting wind that even the birds found other places to be. The only Brents located were 92 sheltering no...

The 3 dark-bellied Brents were still present along with a count of 136. Counts have been pretty steady (with a slight increase) since the tu...

Talking point of the day was the cliff fall on the west side of Middle near to the south end. Some massive slabs and other rock debris bore ...

Bright and sunny but very windy today but not much activity on the island with just 3 Song Thrushes found, although a Merlin as well as Pere...

Many thanks for those who contacted me about the Redpoll spp. The reason why the Redpoll spp on 9th May was not sub-specifically identified ...

Spring 2008 was excellent on the island for the capture of redpolls - the iPod was used to attract flyover redpolls into the Obs garden. In ...

Then later on 9th May 2008, another redpoll was caught and after some investigation was thought to show some features of North Western (or G...

A magnificent sunrise before the wind strengthened and the temperature rose ahead of the Atlantic fronts from the west arriving to relieve t...