BIRDMAD

My week in France in February 2009 was not intended to be anything birdy, but the Alps came up trumps with a few lifers. As soon as we arriv...

Yesterday, I went to Canons Farm and Banstead Woods with David Campbell. He was hoping to see marsh tit and brambling. I was just hoping to ...

On 4 January I decided to do a Kent round trip to start me off for this year. First stop was Folkestone to see the waxwings. I left in the d...

The next week my wife, Lynne, and I went to Shetland for five days. Shetland is something of a Mecca for birdwatchers and Lynne has also wan...

2008 was a hectic year especially in the last few months. I'd never kept a year list before but David Campbell made me (well, all right ...

WAXWINGS The end of the year was exciting. Waxwings are common winter visitors from Russia and Scandinavia every five or six years when ther...

Went to Bookham Common today for a bird I had never seen before - a hawfinch . This is a large, colourful, shy finch which has been in the ...