Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Porthgwarra, 24 October 2014 Comfortably the highlight of my British and Irish year. What a cracker! Unfortu...

Found by Hannu today - a lovely first-winter male in da Ponte. Cracking bird, terrible photo. Otherwise I appear to have hit a mental and ph...

As I type this the wind is absolutely howling outside - the storm is well and truly here. Looking at the forecast this isn't even a patc...

Not much to report on today from the field - had a Red-eyed Vireo at the Cape Verde Farm late this afternoon. The plane arrived safely this ...

When I woke this morning it was clear the weather had changed overnight - it was altogether windier and there was quite a bit of murk above ...

After a couple of great days I guess I was due a slow one, and that's exactly how today panned out. My recent success (in fact, pretty m...

Today has been absolutely glorious - a cloudy but calm morning gave way to a stunningly warm afternoon with unbroken blue skies stretching f...

Today I started up at the reservoir again, hoping for better light and better pics of the pipit. Neither came - in fact it seems the pipit h...

Bird of the day for me - a self-found Azores tick: Other highlights included the party of Collared Doves having increased to three and ...

Grim times today. Started off at the Lighthouse Valley with the rest of the new arrivals, and very quickly saw the Snowy Owl. The poor thing...