Bird Watching

Bird Watching is Britain’s best-selling birdwatching magazine. Each issue is packed with expert advice on when, where and how to see more birds, from common garden visitors to the most elusive rarities. There are features from some of British birdwatching’s best-known names, superbly illustrated by the work of the world’s best bird photographers, plus comprehensive coverage of all the latest sightings, guides to the best birdwatching sites, ID masterclasses, news and reviews of all the latest gear.

Welcome

Bird Watching • What’s your favourite seabird?

YOUR BIRDING MONTH • JUNE

FIVE BIRDS TO FIND IN JUNE • June spans the turning of the year from spring into true summer. At the start, some birds are still heading north to breed, but by the end, failed breeders are returning. Here are five great birds to find this month.

Beyond Birdwatching • June is a heady month for nature lovers, as James Lowen explains…

Weedon’s World • In mid-April Mike stumbled upon a piece of behaviour which he’d previously thought was mythical. Drum roll, please…

NOCTURNAL BIRDING Musical churrs • Nightjars are among the hardest birds to survey, but you can help, writes Jon Carter…

Garden birdwatch all year round

Grumpy Old Birder • Birds develop survival strategies quickly, writes Bo Beolens

Sign up to #My200BirdYear • Essential advice and tips to help you get the most from your birding - and your year list - in June

London-on-Sea? • Thirty-minute Birder Amanda Tuke considers whether we should think of the capital as a coastal city…

High hopes • The fells around Skiddaw, in Cumbria, could be set to see their bird life change for the better, writes John Miles

Close ENCOUNTERS • Seeing Little Terns well brings into focus the threats they face, writes Graham Lilley

Ospreys overhead • Even if they don’t breed locally, we all have a chance to see this superb raptor, writes Ruth Miller

ID Challenge • This month’s challenge is all about the identification of British owls

Answers & solutions • Check your answers against our explanations. Remember, there are no ‘trick’ birds or extreme rarities among these…

ID Tips & tricks • Here are a few extra tips to help you identify Asio owls

GO BIRDING • 10 great sites for brilliant birdwatching

LOCH OF LINTRATHEN • Year-round interest at a varied birding site

AMBLE • Estuary, beaches, dunes, and Britain’s rarest seabird

DRUMMORE • Seabirds and much more at Scotland’s Southern tip

SILLOTH • A wide range of species at a former seaside resort

BANK ISLAND • Wildfowl, waders, warblers and more

HARRY’S PARK WOOD • Quiet woodland with the chance of surprises

NAPTON • Visible migration and waterbirds in the heart of England

BLYTHBURGH • A variety of shorebirds and raptors are assured

SHIPTON GREEN • A walk for farmland and estuary birds on the south coast

TORRINGTON • River valley, disused canal, woodland and fields

YOURVIEW • PHOTOS, LETTERS, TWEETS, QUESTIONS - HAVE YOUR SAY

Your Questions • Send all your birding questions to birdwatching@bauermedia.co.uk and our experts will give you the answers

Bird Watching

Reed Warbler • It is exactly what the name says it is… isn’t it? Dominic Couzens investigates…

Isles of Scilly in autumn • Join this Oriole Birding/Bird Watching readers’ holiday to explore a legendary birding destination

The best of birding… and more • The tropical forests of Sabah might just move you to tears, writes Dominic Couzens

White-browed Wagtail • It’s the largest member of a family we all know well, writes David Lindo

Autumn...