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Nightjar, Burrington Ham

Just the one bird but my first for four years and species number 190 for Somerset [...]

Industrial Devon

My route to the Tamar valley skirted Dartmoor Rural Exploitation Zone [...]

Cirl Buntings, Prawle Point

A wind-blown male was delivering from the top of a bush and made my 294th British species [...]

East Coast Wind

Dunes south of the Bamburgh Castle afforded some protection, at the cost of the occasional mouthful of sand [...]

Highlands Rain

Glencoe was alive with silvery filaments streaming down every hillside [...]

Slavonian Grebe, Loch Fyne

A nice year tick, and new for Argyll [...]

Pied-Billed Grebe, RSPB Ham Wall

My 292nd British tick. Eight to go to put me in the 300 Club. What will they be? [...]

Morcombe & Linnaeus

At the Botanic Gardens in Perth, Michael Morcombe’s Australian field guide came into my life [...]

Bearded Tit, RSPB Minsmere

The bird isn’t a tit though. It’s near, but in a separate family – its own family moreover. [...]