The Early Birder

With the majority of birds now hunkered up in hedges and bushes with their young, I thought I'd take a better look at the birds that are...

I'm really enjoying this butterfly season. It seems like there has been a real explosion just recently. Speckled Woods seem to be the mo...

RSPB Otmoor is one of the best bird reserves I've been to for some time. It could well have been the time of year that I went, but the p...

I had an amazingly close encounter with a couple of Terns at Pennington Marsh in Hampshire. This pair were sat on the edge of a verge that l...

When the birds aren't playing, I tend to turn my eye to other forms of nature. Insects, fungi, moths and butterflies mainly. Recently in...

Hampshire and the New Forest had many different varieties of birds. Some I'd never seen before, and some that were a little more familia...

An early morning drive into the heart of Epping Forest and Connaught Water in search of Nightingale proved to be fruitless. The weather was ...

The Gannets were the real reason for my longing to go to Bempton Cliffs this year. Such a stunning looking bird and even better when there a...