Sam's

PHOTOPOETRY

I dashed over to County Durham today, keen as I was to catch up with another passerine invasion and to capture an elusive owl on digital...

I eventually managed to pluck up the courage today to go searching for one of the many flocks of rare crossbills that had invaded Britain...

Nothing special today but the local Moorhens were out in force in glorious sunshine and a Buzzard posed nicely for the camera as it...

I'd seen the Ring-billed Gull at Strathclyde Loch before and had got cracking views (and some very pleasing images) but given the...

A walk to Grune Point today didn't produce Snow Buntings (reported last week) but on the way back to the car I stumbled across a small...

We were back in The Gambia, and 3 days up river - at the right time of year - enabled me to catch up with some birds I missed last time,...

The large flock of Barnacle Geese that I saw at Rockcliffe Marsh a few weeks back had migrated to Anthorn and with them the Bar-headed...

With nothing rare or scarce within 75 miles of home (not for the first time), I headed off round the peninsula. Golden Plover were...

I managed to find the handsome drake Ring-necked Duck today at Milton Loch, near Dumfries, and had great views through the telescope, but...

Having left home around 6am I was disappointed not to be rewarded with lekking Black Grouse on my way north and wished I had driven...