Join the Conversation

If you wish to register, please email me
Log in

Archives

Expand All

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 [...]

Bearded Tit, RSPB Minsmere

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

More Interesting Times

Superstorm Sandy recalls a post from nearly three years ago as I looked forward to more hurricanes [...]

Choughs, RSPB South Stack

In north-west Wales on Anglesey, or technically Holy Island [...]

Cruise to Lundy, Devon

Once ashore a peregrine was the first landbird tick, seeming to survey passengers disembarking from the Waverley [...]

PS Waverley, Bristol Channel

Oil-fired paddle steamer and worth it for the smell and action. And warmth. [...]

Birling Gap Migrants

Birling Gap is a National Trust honeypot but one minute away lies a less disturbed treasure – the Lookout [...]

Greece, 2007

Birds were unmissable . The journey out had its highlights too. [...]