On 27th April 1947 the year’s first great tit egg in Oxford University’s Wytham Woods was counted. The hugely influential Wytham Great Tit Study is the longest continuous study of an individually marked animal population in the world. It plays a key role in scientist’s understanding of how populations change in response to the environment […]

It has become something of a tradition that at this point in the year Brian gives us the lowdown on his two very different reserves. One, a wooded slope on his doorstep in Derbyshire and the other a wetland area in Lincolnshire. We’ll learn of ‘his’ birds’ past year’s breeding attempts. This will be followed […]