I took advantage of meetings up in Lincolnshire to spend a weekend at home - primarily to see family but also cram in some birding, too. In ...

It felt almost springlike out of the wind today, and fittingly I saw my first butterfly of the year - a Red Admiral hurriedly commuting betw...

I did quite a bit of local birding over the weekend. No fewer than three visits to the WWT produced two Caspian Gulls - the usual 2cy bird o...

The river was particularly busy with rowing and kayaking crews out in force today. The crowded water, combined with a large volume of Fulham...

The regular first-winter Caspian Gull was again at London Wetland Centre this afternoon. This is the bird I first saw on the adjacent River ...

It remains cold across much of Britain, particularly the south-east, and such conditions usually mean winter birding is at its most producti...

After the autumn's record influx, it seemed inevitable that the odd Pine Bunting would be unearthed in the British countryside this wint...

I covered the Thames between Barnes and Fulham daily over the weekend without any decent reward. Gulls numbers were in the main quite low, e...

The 4cy Caspian Gull I saw on the River Thames in Fulham on 6 January was seen yesterday in Thetford, Norfolk, by Dawn Balmer. It's uneq...

I've been hoping for one of these on my adopted 'patch' since I started looking at the gulls properly last summer. Rich , Jamie ...