by Sparrowhawk | Mar 30, 2015 | Diary |
Looking out of my study window on this bright, frosty morning, beyond our big boundary hedge, are three or four Blackthorn bushes, covered in white blossom, sparkling in the sun. Our Blackbird nesting in the clematis to the right of the kitchen window is sitting...
by Sparrowhawk | Mar 21, 2015 | Diary |
The hen Blackbird, whose territory is at the front of our house, has been busy gathering material for the nest she’s building in the clematis that covers the wall to the right of the kitchen window. She always nests there. Luckily we’d just spread a load of compost on...
by Sparrowhawk | Mar 14, 2015 | Diary |
In my opinion The Peregrine written by J.A.Baker is the best book ever written about a bird. For years I tried to get the Natural History Unit at BBC Bristol to finance my attempt to film it. In 2008 the project nearly got off the ground but was cancelled at the last...
by Sparrowhawk | Mar 10, 2015 | Diary |
I recently received an email from a fan in The Netherlands who wanted to know where the hollow tree was in the New Forest where I’d made a children’s television drama series based on “BB’s” famous book Brendon Chase. It was a story of three boys who’d run away from an...
by Sparrowhawk | Mar 4, 2015 | Diary |
I’d seen the pictures of the Norwich murmuration of starlings on Twitter and decided I must view it at first hand. On 27th February Liza and I settled down to wait in the Assembly Rooms car park. It was cold and I had worked out that this would be a comfortable watch...
