Rotherhithe & Beyond

It's definitely that time of year where if you're not up for a bit of birding boredom, you start looking at flowers and the like. An...

When I'm abroad and a big bird turns up (a mega, not literally), I'm always relieved when it's a species I've seen before. T...

1992 seems a long time ago. That was when the first Spectacled Warbler was at Filey. I didn't see that one (though I did see a Sardinian...

It's not the type of place I usually go, but once in a while I suppose it's nice to relax. So it was that I've got a week in St....

I much prefer it to be overcast with rain. Apart from the fact you avoid getting burnt in this nice weather, there are generally more birds....

Thank goodness for a fish and Sunday opening hours, that's all I'll say. John A gave me a lovely trout that he'd caught (that...

This was one of the hardest blog posts to put together. Ranking all of the wonderful American wood-warblers. I contemplated just posting a l...