This morning I was up early and already heading to the New Forest coast in the half-light of dawn, enticed by a weather forecast of light...

Marcus writes: Unfortunately work, and in particular the impact of coronavirus, has dominated my working week, but it hasn’t all been...

Russ and Marcus write: It was an exceptionally wet month, with Met Office records indicating it was the wettest February since records...

Marcus writes: From late March we will be embarking on the second year of GPS/radio tracking Hawfinch in the New Forest. Adult male...

Russ writes: The weather is wreaking havoc with fieldwork at the moment, but yesterday I managed to get out on the gravel bike after the...

Russ writes: Yesterday I attended a briefing for New Forest Snipe surveyors led by Keith Betton (Chairman and Country Recorder, Hampshire...

Marcus writes: In the darkness, at 0600 on Saturday morning, a small group of us gathered in a compact block of deciduous woodland in the...

Russ and Marcus write: The weather during January was dominated by a mild westerly airflow, which meant that the mean temperature was...

Russ writes: Colour ringing is a great way of tracking birds' movements and allows individual birds to be identified in the field, unlike...

Marcus writes: Each year through Jan and Feb I set myself the task of counting all the known Hawfinch roosts in the New Forest. The...

Russ writes: Yesterday, I attended a Curlew Recovery Summit at Highgrove House, representing Wild New Forest and our ongoing New Forest...

Russ writes: Last night, Marcus and I joined a small team led by expert bird ringer, Nigel Jones, as they attempted to find and catch...

Russ and Marcus write: Welcome to the first blog post on the new Wild New Forest website. We're hoping to transfer our archive blog posts...