Standing on the platform at Cambridge rail station is not always a place you would expect to encounter East Anglian wildlife, although once I did see a Woodcock fly past platform 4, this evening I noticed on the tracks the remains of a pigeon, mostly overlooked as we all stood there waiting for our train, I started to notice more remains of birds, at first I wondered how it was so many birds were struck by trains here, then I noticed near the pigeon the remains of a brown bird, I went to have a closer look at it and was sad to see it was a Tawny owl, in Cambridge Station? so I walked a few feet up the along the platform looking and counting the birds (getting strange looks from other passengers). in a short distance I had seen a Tawny owl, pheasant, red-legged partridge, stock dove and a number of wood pigeons.

Then it dawned on me these were birds that had been hit out in the countryside and as the trains stopped into the Station they fall off, a sad sight and it made me wonder how many more birds, rare and common, are killed just by train strikes alone.

On returning home I could see it was going to be a cold night and made sure that there was plenty of food on the bird table and in the feeders for the birds in the morning, after all they need all the help we can give them.

Visiting Chaffinch to our garden feeders