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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. [...]

Little Gull, Chew Valley

From the Stratford Hide this bird was like a tern but later at Moreton it danced close enough. [...]

2008: Cockatiels, New South Wales

After Christmas Eve in Warren I woke with a clear head and ready for this member of the Cacatuidae family. [...]

Year Birds, Blagdon Lake

A grey phalarope was showing off the fishing lodge. Rather more thrilling was a juvenile arctic tern. [...]