Sam's

PHOTOPOETRY

Nothing spectacular around in the first two weeks of February but frosty conditions drew me back to my hide and there were some nice...

Pink-footed and Barnacle Geese posed nicely in the setting sun at Longcroft on 24th, Pintail gathered in numbers (with c.200 Dunlin) at...

Nothing startling on 21st and 22nd January but some nice birds on the feeders at Campfield RSPB and a redhead Smew, an uncommon sight in...

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...