• View from the Shed by Shaun Finnie - Initial Views
    INITIAL VIEWS Welcome to VIEW FROM THE SHED, a new blog from the RSPB's Old Moor reserve in South Yorkshire. I'm Volunteer Shaun and each week I'll be providing my views, be they sightings around the...
  • View from the Shed by Shaun Finnie - THERE ARE ELK AT OLD MOOR
    THERE ARE ELK AT OLD MOOR Here at RSPB Old Moor we have a great big cob (male) MUTE SWAN. If he sees an interloper in his territory or a threat to his pen (female) and any young they have then...
  • View From The Shed by Shaun Finnie - PIPER AT THE GATES OF OLD MOOR
    PIPER AT THE GATES OF OLD MOOR One of the hardest things any birder will ever do is correctly identify Gulls. Many of the different 'sea gull' species look incredibly similar, apart from during the...
  • View From The Shed by Shaun Finnie - OLD MOOR'S BOOM BOX
    OLD MOOR'S BOOM BOX It was certainly a date for my diary. February the second, a momentous date if only for one reason: this was the earliest day of the year that I've ever heard a BITTERN booming at...
  • View From The Shed by Shaun Finnie - PAYING IT FORWARD
    PAYING IT FORWARD This week's View From The Shed is a little different. In this piece I'm not so much looking out of RSPB Old Moor's Welcome Shed as into it. I'm focussing on the volunteers who work...