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...
At the end of October, Julie Donaldson, a multi award-winning radio presenter, passed away at James Cook Hospital due to Covid. The Tees lost a legend. Julie is probably best known for hosting the midweek breakfast show on Zetland FM. She has been a “hugely valued...