The Swift A lovely Sunday afternoon digging potatoes came to an abrupt halt with news of a rare Swift in Yorkshire. Initially identified a...

Tuesday 15th May 2018 Going For A Song Last night I WhatsApp'ed my birding mates... Test week. I am ****ed if something turns up this...

Tuesday 12th December 2017 Back To Cut End Another go at the Black Guillemot today. I was quite impressed with Cut End yesterday. It is r...

Sunday 10th December 2017 A touch of the white stuff Snow brings out the child in people. I woke up at 7.30am and peered out of the window...

Monday 4th December 2017 A Siberian waif Today I found the rarest bird to grace the smallholding since I moved here. Even more satisfying ...

All bird photos in this blog post are shamelessly lifted from the Facebook pages, Twitter feeds or blogs of people who were friends at the...