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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 [...]

Tales Told by an Idiot

Science fiction, mystery and metaphysical short stories and sketches [...]

Iceland Gull, Cheddar

My first English occurrence of this white gull. Five years have elapsed since my last sighting at Fraserburgh. [...]

Red Grouse, Crib Y Garth

Or Cat’s Back or, most prosaically of all, Black Hill. But in any case the easternmost spur of the Black Mountains. [...]

Glen Isla, 2004

A beautiful, if somewhat crisp at the start, day in the foothills of the Cairngorms. [...]

Dundee & Broughty Ferry, 2004

It was a redpoll. Apart from the oddness of the urban location there are no conifers for miles. [...]

Top 10 British Birding Sites

Not the plain old best but, as a rabid lister, the locations to deliver the most varied bag of species. [...]