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If you’ve been lucky enough to get out and about recently no doubt you’ll have heard birdsong almost everywhere you turn. The mating season is now well and truly underway and as we say ‘goodbye’ to our winter migrants, Britain’s summer visitors are reaching our shores...

Baines I know we have had a lot of thrushes visiting the UK this winter, but I was still surprised to see 13 Fieldfare in a single flock. What a great sight. They were happily feeding in a feild by the River Douglas, North West Lancs. Edenbridge Kent We have a large cotoneaster tree which...

Sparrow I don't mean why are we (I say "we" loosely) getting some in our gardens, that is obvious with the cold weather, I mean why are we getting so many huge flocks generally? Or have they always come in such huge flocks but not so far south? Sparrow, it could be that this year...

Most mornings during autumn, I visit a site close to home in Cambridgeshire called Croydon Hill. From this elevated vantage point, I stand and scan along the ridge and valley for birds visibly migrating (known to hard-core enthusiasts as ''vis-migging'') This morning's 'vis...