The Early Birder

I used some time off between Christmas and New Year to see if I could make any late additions to my year list . High on my list of "pos...

I'm going to try something new this year. I thought as well as doing my blog, I'd try to do some videos of my escapades. I'll be...

Merry Christmas to you all, and thank you for visiting my page in the last year. It's great to know that people like to connect with my ...

Redesmere doesn't really get many different species of gulls through the year. Black-headed are the most common by far, with the odd L...

I'm fortunate to have a few pairs of Stonechats locally. They're one of the birds that really triggered my interest and excitement ...

A bird that I'd only set eyes on twice before was the Jack Snipe . Once at Spurn and once at Snipes Pool, Cley . On both occasions the ...

Early mornings in the Goyt Valley have been stunning this year. So many weekends have started in full sunshine, no cloud cover and no rain. ...

Just a few weeks after adding the Woodchat Shrike to my UK life list, I managed to add another lifer last weekend, in the form of a Marsh Wa...

Well, these beauties have been back here for the last couple of months, and in fact they are now feeding their fledged young (look out for s...

Last week, I made an after work dash to go and see a rare visitor to these shores, and an even rarer visitor to Cheshire. A stunning male Wo...

It's that time of year, when I get a bit twitchy and excited about what might be turning up nearby. Each year my search for migrants get...