Wildstarts founder David Campbell has become the Editor of Birdwatch magazine! This is the esteemed monthly magazine for birders keen to sharpen their skills and learn more about birds. This means he has reduced his duties as a guide, but the tours are in excellent hands with the wider Wildstarts team. David is still the point of contact for arranging tours and continues to offer short personal tours in East Sussex. David is able to directly offer Wildstarts guests and followers a saving...

This morning we recorded 56 species of bird during our morning birding safari for Kent and East Sussex Railway. This is a unique way to experience the birds and other wildlife of this fantastic biodiversity corridor on the border between the two counties. Highlights included a migrant Common Greenshank, a showy Great White Egret, a Common Cuckoo that let everyone look at it through the scope, displaying Northern Lapwings, quartering Western Marsh Harriers and a singing Common Nightingale –...

Now is a great time to search for more specialised woodland species such as Eurasian Goshawk and Lesser Spotted Woodpecker on fine sunny days. Eurasian Goshawk is doing very well now in Sussex and Kent, with dozens of breeding pairs. Immatures, such as the female in the photograph below, are identifiable by the thick streaks on their underside. These younger birds roam more widely and can be found unexpectedly in seemingly random areas of farmland and wooded shaws.