Sam's

PHOTOPOETRY

To be fair, ‘Barnie’ had been back for a while – but appearances were sporadic at best and always at night in car headlights. But on the...

A return visit on one of the very few bright days over Christmas (31st December) to Penrith brought dividends - the Waxwings were there...

I ventured north today into the heart of Scotland with the hope of picking up a couple of increasingly scarce winter visitors. I dipped...

Penrith was the place to be today (as everywhere else was drenched and devoid of birdlife!). A 280-strong flock of these stunning...

A second (or more likely the same) group of these stunning birds appeared in Carlisle city centre, and these proved easier to photograph...

Having tried once already for these little gems in Cumbria - and failed, I drove to Brampton where they had also been reported. Annoying...

A Red-necked Grebe at Talkin was almost enough to tempt me over there, but when a Black-throated Diver joined it, this tipped the...

Having had a pretty miserable week off with all kinds of things going wrong (not least the lack of local birds), I decided at the last...

There are increasingly (and understandably) moments when I feel a sense of compulsion in my birding career as I seek to add to my life...

After my Brazilian adventure in the jungle, I wasn’t really back into the swing of local British birding, but it’s not often that an...