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Since my last update we have updated our website to enable members and supporters to make donations to the charity. We have been incredibly grateful to see just how many of you are making donations for all sorts of reasons. Only last month we received a donation from a new member who joined us after...
I am going to tell you about an audio documentary. I must tell you before you read on, I’m not going to give anything away. If you want to know more, you’ll have to listen to it! This audio documentary is not just about birds. I suppose you could say it’s about people with a...
In June we had a total of 26 nesting pairs, three of which arrived in June. Judging by their smart feathering they were later bred young from last season rather that failed breeders from other colonies. three pairs arriving here in June is average for this colony. In June we had a total of 26...
During March to May, house martins began to arrive from Africa for their six month summer holidays again this year in Old Dairy, Okeford Fitzpaine.   The male bird arrives with a new wife every year, either to the existing mud nest he built the year before or they embark on building a new mud...