BIRDMAD

On Monday I left early to visit a local place near Oxted hoping to see a ring ouzel. It was a nice walk but no ring ouzel. This is my bogey ...

On Friday, 9 April, I went with David to Rainham. We went first to Ingrebourne Valley where a grasshopper warbler had been seen the previous...

This weekend wasn't one of the best weatherwise, admit it. I'd done nothing all weekend and on Easter Sunday my nine year-old niece ...

On Monday 29 March I planned a circular tour hoping to get up to my last year's total for the end of March, 145. I was on 144. I start...

Last week I went with Tricia to Painshill Park hoping to see a kingfisher. Spring was in the air with most birds dancing and making eyes at ...

As David Campbell hadn't been able to see the bufflehead in Dorset, which seems to have taken up residence, I went a second time hoping...

As I had a day off on Monday I went to see the rare American duck that had appeared in Dorset near Langton Herring. That part of the Dorset ...

With the high tides of the full moon at the start of the month I decided to go to Norfolk for a couple of days. I drove up on Tuesday night ...

I'd seen the dusky warbler at Walthamstow once already, in the rain and poor light of dusk (sorry) but I decided to go back on Saturday ...

Monday 1 February 2010. (click photos to enlarge them) This article is about our trip to Egypt. It has a distinctly ‘birdy’ slant but I ma...