Welcome

Everybody loves a survivor, like our cover bird, the beautiful Bittern, or the Osprey (above), which has survived and then thrived in Scotland, and now in the rest of the UK. They’re reminders that conservation work (and that includes what so many of you do), can achieve great things.

This issue also sees the latest in our series of cut-outand-keep, at-a-glance ID cards, with an accompanying feature to help you further. And if you missed either of the first two sets of cards, don’t worry, you can still download them at http://bit.ly/39pTugY

So, brush up your ID, and even if lockdown is keeping you confined to the immediate environs of your home, you’ll find that you’re seeing more birds than before. Have a great birding month!

Matt Merritt, editor