Richardson's Cackling & Bar-headed Beauty
The Cardurnock Dotterel only showed briefly this morning (no photos this time) and I found myself drawn instead to a rarity on the far...
Scarce Grebe, Shrike & raptor show
A full day out in Northumberland wasn't quite as spectacular as I had hoped but I got decent views of the Red-necked Grebe at Linton NR,...
Dotterel for the house list!
I noted on Birdguides that an oddity had been spotted last weekend with Golden Plover a few miles up the road, and having seen large...
Rare Goose and Cranes - of suspect origin?
Down south seeing relatives, I couldn't resist driving a little further down the M5 to have a wander round Slimbridge. I hadn't expected...
Two rare Canadas and a YBW
A few days on the Northumbrian coast enabled me to catch up with both Todd's Canada Goose and Richardson's Cackling Goose, the latter...
Five Leach's and a lone Avocet
Ex-hurricane gales lured me to the Solway after work on 17th and my timing couldn't have been better: within minutes no less than 5...
Not so common Thrush on a Welsh rock
A mad 4 1/2 hr drive down to Pwll-Du, Gwent, today enabled me to catch up with the now long-staying, so-called Common Rock Thrush,...
Kites of the wrong kind and no fox this time
Dashed up the road this evening in the hope of photographing the local foxes but confronted instead by a kite-surfer with a massive pink...
