Woodcock?

Hi This is our first post, hope the picture are interesting, if so I will post the video (its 9MB so I will have to find out how to reduce it). Our trail-cam caught this in the nearby woods, we were...
Monday's Magic Moment: Woodcock pilots

This weekend I went along to a bird ringing demonstration and got the chance to ring my very first bird – a goldcrest . So in honour of this little bird, who so obligingly sat still for me, I thought...
woodcocks and windows

We have had our first few reports of finding 'unusual brown birds with strange long beaks' dead or dazed underneath windows. In most cases these are going to be migrating woodcocks that have unfortunately...
Crash! Bang! Woodcock?

We all know that birds and windows aren't a very good combination. Though here at The Lodge we've got stickers on our office windows to break up the reflections from outdoors, it's not uncommon for...
Monday's Magic Moment: the wonder of woodcock

For the next three weeks, Monday Moments will be brought to you from the BBC Springwatch presenters. To kick things off, here are some words from Chris Packham about one of his favourite birds, the...