Antipodes

I’ve often seen this fellow drumming on a wooden pole alongside the tiled box in which I put sunflower seeds for the flock of great tits [...

An adjective that amuses me in the case of wild birds is "sedentary", which evokes a vision of a couple of tiny birds that have ju...

The bird I've nicknamed the "Galapagos guy" is a finch that I presented in a blog post on the eve of Darwin Day [ display ]. H...

In this poor-quality photo—taken yesterday through the smudgy glass of my bedroom window on an overcast afternoon—the little creamy-hued tit...

Like thousands of other bird-lovers throughout the world, I've been spending a lot of time, over the last few days, watching the couple ...

Fabulous image. From the Guardian 's Week in Wildlife , photo by Mircea Costina in Dobrogea, Romania [click to enlarge]: Perched ...

Yesterday, a new group of tiny colorful birds arrived at Gamone. The following poor-quality photo (with my telephoto lens, there's not e...

Something has changed in the eating habits of my winter colony of mésanges [Great Tits]. Up until now, there hasn't been much snow at G...

The French Libération website has published an amusing story about mysterious stuff that has been falling from the sky onto the village of ...

When somebody disappears abruptly, we say in English that he has "taken French leave". In a similar situation, the French would sa...

In my article of 26 February 2010 entitled Building for the birds [ display ] , I described my construction of a nesting box for mésanges ...

Sometimes, it's hard to decide whether certain bird stories are genuine. David Attenborough presents the amazing lyre bird, which mimic...

During the night, there was a heavy fall of snow at Gamone. As soon as the sun rose, in a misty sky, groups of small birds started to drop i...

Alongside my bird-house, I've just erected a bird-post, designed to carry three balls of fat and seeds at a height that Sophia cannot a...

After being informed by Tineke and Serge that their wild birds seem to prefer a straight diet of sunflower seeds (rather than the mixture ...

Last year in February, a Sydney-based think tank named the Lowy Institute succeeded in scaring shit out of everybody by announcing the theo...

I've just been admiring the aerial ballet of a flock of Alpine Swifts above the oak trees on the ridge up behind my house. They're ...