Rotherhithe & Beyond

It's been a week or so since I last posted. The week just gone has been a hard one, as completely unavoidable work commitments meant tha...

June is always grim round these ends, but having a quality bird, the female Long-tailed Duck, within walking distance of my flat at this tim...

I recently got accused of losing it - the impetus to see rares that is (following on from my comments about the Bee-eater in Kent last Sunda...

Two weeks ago I was privileged to visit a 'Caspian Gull colony' in southern Poland with the master of all those green and yellow r...

Four times! That's how many updates the Long-tailed Duck got today. Perhaps the most updated rarity in the country today, I shit you not...

It had been ages since I'd been out of London, and after checking that the female Long-tailed Duck was present on Canada Water (which it...

I had a relaxed morning, with just a brief look at the usual congregation of gulls on Greenland Dock. Having started to do a bit of writing ...