Credit: Wallpaper.com Things are beginning to happen out there in the natural world. Things that make me feel even more happy than usual! Because the trees are covered in blossom. Our local woodpigeon is busy building her nest in a thicket of buddleia. And best of all, the swallows have returned and are energetically darting backwards and forwards across our garden. Now, of course, I’m a domesticated bird so I don’t go through all of the bother of migrating. But I really take

We’re now into what I like to call ‘Fluffed-up February.’ It’s still rather chilly for parrots like me, but at least the days are getting longer, and it won’t be too long before some of my feathered friends begin to leave Africa and head north to spend their Summer with us. Yes, the skies will be criss-crossed as flocks of birds come and go, probably amassing a trillion wingbeats between them. Meanwhile, humans tend to go on shorter migrations which they like to call ‘holid

My owner announced the other day that he was off to see a bunch of starlings. Yes, starlings! The same noisy, greedy and endlessly pooing vagabonds that regularly visit our garden bird feeders. And not for the first time, I began to wonder if he had finally ‘lost it.’ I mean, why go on a mini migration, lasting one and a half hours, to see something undesirable that’s already in your garden? Well, it turns out that he went to a nature reserve on the Somerset Levels. And he wa