Woodcock Watch Blog

With our tagged birds having left the UK behind several weeks ago it would now seem an ideal time to take a quick look at the journeys they’ve made.

Having shown no previous sign of migratory behaviour, Nellie III has now made it to Scandinavia.

Chris Heward discusses his relief as Nellie III finally begins his/her journey across the North Sea.

The woodcock’s spring migrations are well and truly underway. It’s nearly three weeks since the first of our tagged woodcock departed and now all but one of the eight active tags are outside the UK.

Chris Heward introduces the three new birds the Woodcock Watch team have tagged ahead of the ‘upcoming’ spring migration.

The recent spring-like weather seems to have inspired Sir John to start his 2,400 km migration.

Chris Heward visits the Isle of Man to tag the first of our 2017 birds.

Chris Heward shares some good news - after a long period of silence we have received new data from Doc.

Read our letter, published in The Times today and written by Andrew Hoodless, our Head of Wetlands Research

We’ve received new data from Sir John that confirms he has returned to Norfolk where he was caught and tagged in March.