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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. [...]

Finally an Angus Kingfisher, 2004

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

Stert Flats

If seabirds weren’t on the menu, shorebirds certainly were [...]

Two Early Spring Migrants

And for Portbury Wharf a real prize of a tick. [...]