A rocket run in field herping parlance, is a short, action-packed trip to somewhere unusual, to catch up with some different species. In th...

 As I was eating my coco pops Baikal Teal came on the Birdguides app. Again. I went to dismiss it, assuming it was the bird at Greylake but...

My Raptor Watchpoint with Tajo Lagarin which held the local Vulture colony, in the background Last summer my family and I decamped to the S...

 As I type, we are over the English Channel, having waved goodbye to Exeter, thirty-seven thousand feet below. A quick zip over the channel,...

 On Monday night, news that the Black-browed Albatross had not only returned from the dead but it had returned to Bempton. A frame-filling p...

 April was a tricky month. It is normally excellent but after a crazy March it certainly calmed down with fewer records of fewer species tha...

Over the past 6 weeks I have had a bad back. Bad enough to merit full dose painkillers for a fortnight. This led to immobility and ultimatel...