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© Ruth ChambersQuietening Skies
by Ruth Chambers
The demise of Starlings in Newcastle...
Urban Birding in London
by Kabir Kaul (aged 13)
London. A city you wouldn’t associate with bird migration, wetlands, woodlands and general greenery. Well, guess what! All this exists within a capital that has...
Floodplain Forest Nature Reserve, near Milton Keynes, England
by Ashley Beolens
A spring of Eurasian Teal leaps into the air. The soft piping sound of their alarmed calls filling the air where it accompanies the excite...
Introducing Lodge Lake
by Ashley Beolens
As a town dweller my local patches are usually urban in their setting. Lodge Lake in Great Holm, a small balancing lake in the heart of Milton Keynes,...
A Seabird Colony in a City. Preston’s tern colony, Lancashire, England
with Paul Ellis
Right in the middle of the City of Preston in Lancashire there is a thriving Common Tern colony at Preston Dock. The dock is owned and...
How urban nature hooked me in
by Evan Landy
My passion for nature did not originate within towns and cities. My first love was for the sea. Misty mornings with the soft sound. ...
Urban birds: Tails of the Unexpected
with Paul Brook
It was my lunch break and I was walking by the river to the optician’s in town when a low-flying turquoise flash zipped over the water and into a...
South Gare, Cleveland
Birding Newcastle
with Keith Gunning
Newcastle’s most famous city birds are undoubtedly the Kittiwakes that nest on the Tyne Bridge, thirteen miles from the sea. It is...
Birding Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens
with Des McKenzie
Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens (open dawn to dusk) are located in the heart of Inner London (City of Westminster and Inner London...