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If you saw me wading around with my camera,in a field of weeds on Wallasea this morning, be assured that I hadn't finally lost the last of my marbles! That large, untidy, and rather wild bit of land that you pass on the way to our car park is actually a very important place - our 'wild bird cover'...

Wallasea Island seems to be a bit of a hotspot for birds of prey these days. Not only have we got several hen and marsh harriers, barn owls, kestrels and peregrines, but also merlins and short-eared owls. On Sunday morning I was enjoying a stroll along the seawall and was delighted to see not one, but...

Bird ringing in Britain and Ireland is organised and co-ordinated by the BTO. A network of over 2,500 trained and licensed volunteers currently ring over 900,000 birds every year. In our postings last week, sightings of ringed birds seen on Wallasea were referred to. These birds had been ringed across...

A Leucistic lapwing has been spotted regularly each winter on Wallasea Island for several years. This may sound like it has a nasty disease, but a leucistic bird is one with abnormal plumage. Now most of us differentiate one bird from another by the colour of its feathers, so this can pose Bad Birdwatchers...

The Corn Bunting is the ‘Billy Bunter’ of the buntings, and among the farmland birds suffering dramatic population declines in the UK, making it a red list species. However, in this part of Essex they seem to be hanging on and they are among the birds that RSPB’s new Farmland Advisor...