Rough Legged Buzzard (source: copyright Graham Catley, pewit.blogspot.com)

Well,  spring is just around the corner, and with that the birds are getting excited and singing their hearts out in order  to claim their territory and attract a mate; St Valentine’s day is not just for humans.  Folklaw in some parts has it as the day birds choose their mate and Geoffrey Chaucer mentions ‘Saynt Valentyn’ in his mid-fourteenth-century poem “The Parlement of Fowles” – where three male eagles seek the’claw’ of a female eagle .  In Parkinson’s Park, you may have heard the resident great tits chirping away with their “teacher teacher teacher”calls, along with their pals, the blue tits. Continue reading →