Category Archives: Latest GOB Articles

This article first appeared on page 19 of Birdwatching Magazine November 2024 The Cat, the frog and the blackbird… sounds like one of Aesop’s Fables. However, it is an experience bringing to mind how the animal kingdom, with the exception … Continue reading →

This article first appeared on page 19 of Birdwatching Magazine Autumn 2024 A while ago I was approached by a remarkable woman asking for help for a project she set up. Lucy Mathen, an Indian-born British BBC journalist, often reported … Continue reading →

This article first appeared on page 19 of Birdwatching Magazine August 2024 Feral Pigeons drive Hawkeye nuts. They arrive in the garden en masse and by sheer numbers and dogged doziness oust their betters from on, at and around the … Continue reading →

This article first appeared on page 19 of Birdwatching Magazine July 2024 I’m writing this before the general election, safe in the knowledge that it will influence no-one as you will read it long after your vote has been cast. … Continue reading →

This article first appeared on page 19 of Birdwatching Magazine June 2024 A Blackcap, a garden warbler and a Song Thrush walk into a bar… well, actually, they break into a bar, …of birdsong. How do I know this? Actually, … Continue reading →

This article first appeared on page 19 of Birdwatching Magazine May 2024 I created Fatbirder.com in 1997 when the internet was barely out of nappies. The last few weeks I’ve been updating the UK pages which I last did a … Continue reading →

This article first appeared on page 19 of Birdwatching Magazine April 2024 We have lived in this house for almost a quarter of a century, and are about to attempt to move… partly to be nearer our scattered family, but … Continue reading →

This article first appeared in Birdwatching Magazine March 2024 With Spring around the corner I’d like to ask myself, you and the powers that be a question: ‘…should we be tidy up open space or respect nature?’ Travelling in North … Continue reading →

This article first appeared in the February 2024 edition of Birdwatching Magazine Regular readers will know that Hawkeye is really, by inclination a hunter… the pursuit is almost more important than the catch. She finds 80% of the birds we … Continue reading →

This article first appeared in the January 2024 edition of Birdwatching Magazine Most people who make new years’ resolutions promise to stop smoking, give up the booze or eat less red meat. Well, being the paragon of virtue that you … Continue reading →