Natural Highlights 2025

TL;DR – Welcome to my annual roundup of nature sightings and happenings. These are really just diary notes as a record for me and Mrs Sciencebase.

January

Cottenham – Two Mistle Thrush on our mistletoe, pair of Coal Tit on the pyracantha. By late spring the Rowan hosting the mistletoe had died and the mistletoe with it, unfortunately. Hoping to dig it out in September and replace it with an apple tree.

RSPB Ouse Fen Earith – Huge Starling murmurations (several hundred thousand birds) and lots of Bearded Tits...