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Yellow-Browed Warbler, Chew Valley

This little gem behind the Stratford Hide was perfect for spotting its striking supercilium. [...]

Flinders Birds, 2008

I turned back pre-breakfast to see what birds were up and about early to scrape a living from the desolation. [...]

2009: New Zealand Plovers, Miranda

So it was that tuturiwhatu became my next lifer but not before tuturiwhatu had joined the trip list. You read that right. [...]

2009: Not Quite Freycinet, Tasmania

On the eastern seaboard Tasman Highway, heading north to Bicheno for the road down the other side of Moulting Lagoon. [...]

Marsh Harrier, RSPB Pulborough

At first it looked like a buzzard, scattering the wigeon, teal and pintail at this West Sussex reserve. [...]

2009: Little Penguins, Tasmania

A breeze picked up at Eaglehawk Neck, enough that I started shivering. I hoped the main attraction wouldn’t be long. [...]

Pectoral Sandpiper, Chew Valley

It’s new for the Somerset list, as was a little ringed plover, both visible from the Stratford Hide. [...]

Finally an Angus Kingfisher, 2004

Technically not Angus. Dighty Water in Dundee, but in the birding world the two are lumped together. [...]