We are a nation of animal lovers, and a huge percentage of the UK (12.5m homes) feed wild birds in the garden, myself included. It's a lovely thing to do and brings us all much joy. Garden feeders help wild birds during winter, and during nesting, but all the latest research points to a massive problem. Disease, not least of which is trichomonosis , is being spread through infected garden feeders with devastating effect. A review of the effect on the chaffinch population is alarming, in fact...

Poser! After years of wanting to go I finally got to RSPB Bempton Cliffs, a mere six and a half hour drive from the south coast. Worth...

Every now and again I get tempted, very tempted. Normally that ends one way. With a purchase. This time I had to make an emotive...