Scotch heathland reveals secrets
Across the border, I got lucky this evening (15th June). The weather was perfect and despite the reduced number of raptors compared to...


Local Spoonbill
This iconic species managed to find its way again to Campfield Marsh, as it seems to do almost annually. There were two this time but I...


Kentish (and Notts) 10-Raptor Fest
Occasionally, madness consumes me, and more often than not when a ultra-mega turns up in Britain, the likes of which has never been seen...


Colombia Magic April 2022
420 species (the most I've seen on any holiday anywhere), 217 lifers, 28 endemics (and quite a few near endemics), 3 snakes, White-faced...


More of the same at Cumnock
Nothing new today - but I got better shots of Lesser Scaup and Ring-necked Duck at New Cumnock by circumnavigating the loch. The ducks...


Another Lesser Scaup - and females too!
A trek up north again on 15th February, this time to Coatbridge near Glasgow (Drumpellier Country Park), brought me closer to yet another...


One out of Two at Crook of Baldoon
I've got plenty of nice images of American Wigeon on file - I happen to have got lucky with this species on two or three occasions...


Baikal Beauty - the real McCoy?
Quite remarkably, January turned up trumps with not one but two mega ducks of the same species, at least one of which might prove to be...


RFBT in Middleton-in-Teesdale
Red-flanked Bluetail used to be a bird of legendary status. It seems wrong somehow that a relatively recent increase in national records...


Two yank ducks for the price of one!
I arrived at Auchincross Loch, New Cumnock, with little hope: the rain hadn't let up (like it said it would) and I wasn't even sure I was...


