Scaly
I went to Arrow Valley Lake in Redditch today, where the birding wasn’t especially exciting, but on the plus side I didn’t slip on a wooden fishing peg, go flying, and fracture a vertebra. So, swings and roundabouts. Bird of … Continued
That moment when…
That moment when the bird you’ve been cursing for the past hour because it keeps diving for minutes at a time, and whenever it surfaces seems to come up at the maximum possible distance from you, suddenly bobs up right … Continued
Black-throated diver
The arrival of this bird on a country park lake in Redditch is apparently the most exciting thing to happen in Worcestershire since the discovery of sauce. Around 200 pairs of these medium-sized divers breed on Scottish lochs, and about … Continued