First-summer male Northern Wheatear, Deeping High Bank, 20th April 2011. It's been a good spring for these boys so far.

Drake on the Ouse Washes, 20th April. Had a few local birds, including a Turnstone on the patch on 19th. Also plenty of Wheatears, Green ...

Last couple of days I've spent some time covering my old patch; the extensive area of gravel pits on Baston and Langtoft Fens. Yesterday...

A good five-day trip to Portugal and Spain, the former country for Ruppel's Vulture and Cat C action, whilst we also visited the steppes...

I've been up in North Wales over the weekend visiting family; early this morning I headed west to Anglesey in order to try and connect w...

Gaining a bit of height in the fens, © Mike Weedon Not a bad weekend, both weather and bird-wise locally. Still no true migrants (apart fro...

Following on from a couple of great trips over the past few weeks, I've popped home for a long weekend this weekend. It was nice to get ...

A montage of videograbs of this first for Ireland. The jury is still out on which subspecies it is although our personal notes and recollect...

A long weekend out in west Ireland with Oliver Metcalf turned out to be generally productive. Saturday 5th was spent in Sligo and Mayo, with...

Returned from a week-long trip to the Azores with Rich Bonser at the weekend. It was my first trip to this wonderful islands - hopefully the...