Sam's

PHOTOPOETRY

With Coronavirus still rampant and another lockdown imposed, birding proved hard over the festive period (not least because I was busy...

It's not often you get close to this species, preferring as they do the open sea, so when they came close today on the mirror-like waters...

A quick trip to the pools at Longtown during the last days of lockdown no.2, on 29th November, was well worth it. Four Long-tailed Ducks...

The target bird (White-winged Scoter) at Musselburgh wasn't playing ball today; neither were the Shore Lark or Snow Bunting at Aberlady...

Again, nothing new but the Dowitcher showed brilliantly today on the nearest shore, initially asleep with Redshank, and I also found some...

Nothing much to report. Winds had swung round to the west so I stuck to my local patch and tried to take some nice images of familiar...

An early start meant that I was on Holy Island by dawn. Crossing the causeway, I glimpsed an owl (probably Short-eared) but couldn't...

I was tempted over again to this rarity hotspot but the bird I'd come to see had vanished. Still, it wasn't all bad news and there was a...

Another rare wader made it to Anthorn in recent days and with excellent light extending into the late evening, I felt compelled to locate...

Another triple whammy here: three targets - a potential (British) lifer and two photogenic rarities. All three played ball. The first was...