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It's not often that I come home after a stint of local birding with a smile on my face, but today (16th August) I got lucky. Two trips to...

A 14-day holiday (with about 10 half-days of birding) enabled me to catch up with some familiar, photogenic Mediterranean specialities...

North Cumbria has done well for this species of late, and it was no great surprise that another of these Yank scarcities turned up, this...

Campfield is always the place to be for this species, it seems, and three adults were present today (19th July). And this time, they...

After two previous dips this year (Kent and Notts), it was a case of third time lucky. I'd seen Caspian Tern many times before but only...

Bempton RSPB Reserve proved the place to be once again this weekend (3rd July 2022) with yet another mega lifer showing well. The...

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

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...

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...

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...