A Norton litter-picking group has seen an increase in rubbish during the pandemic and they are determined to continue cleaning up their local area. Oil terminal maintenance planner Wayne Martin, 45, started a Norton-based litter picking group, Norton clean up your...
The summer plumage of the male Snow Bunting is the most distinctive, being all black and white, with a little black bill (leading to it being described once, by a non-birder, as “a penguin the size of a sparrow”) but in the winter they are still mostly whitish… This...
This month I am going to share with you some of the joy I get from bird-watching (or birding as we tend to call it these days) on my local patch – a scrap of grassland, wetland and woods along a 1-mile stretch of Ormesby Beck in Middlesbrough – by describing a typical...