We're looking for Britain's Best Bird Garden - and it could be yours. Unlike other garden competitions, we're not after neatly ...

I saw my first Waxwings of the winter right back at the end of October, a handful close to home, but it's taken until the last week to c...

Christmas meant an early deadline for our January issue, and as a result a few of the monthly UKBS reports arrived just too late to make it ...

Because of an early deadline for the August issue, one or two UKBS reports may not have made the cut-off. Here, then, is the Greater Manches...

(Assistant editor) Mike Weedon writes: I found this male Kingfisher dead at the top of the stairway up to our offices this morning. I am no...

Owing to a technical glitch in our July 2010 issue, Rod Key's Derbyshire report for UK Bird Sightings went AWOL (in fact it morphed int...

Easter's always a favourite time of year for me, because of course it falls during the spring migration period. A little earlier this ye...

Later this year in Bird Watching , you'll be able to read UKBS stalwart and Scottish birding enthusiast Gordon Hamlett's excellent a...

This is what happens when 30,000 Barnacle Geese take off and fly directly over your head. This is just part of the massive flock we saw in F...

We're starting to get the first reports of summer visitors arriving in the UK, with a small group of Sand Martins at Marloes Mere, Pembr...

written and compiled by Steve Dudley The first annual report for the island covering all species recorded on the island in 2009 and details ...

There are two sides to visible migration. One is the hard slog – standing on a windswept hilltop, freezing cold, getting a crick in your nec...

What was your birding 'eureka' moment? The Glamorgan UKBS report for the April issue arrived this morning, and the mention in it of...

One of the most interesting, and enjoyable, parts of the production process at Bird Watching is putting together the Q&A pages. Every m...

You'll have noticed by now that I do a lot of thinking about birds and birding on my journeys to and from work, and today was no differe...