BIRDMAD

Ring ouzel has long been my bogey bird, until last Monday. David Campbell sent a message on Saturday that a male had been seen at Canons Far...

This morning I had a call from David Campbell to say that there was a crane on the lake at Beddington. I got my stuff together and made my w...

Oare on Monday was a frozen waste but there was no snow then. A male marsh harrier was quartering the reeds around the East Flood when Mark ...

Lynne, my wife, wanted to visit her parents in Blean, which is only 3 miles from Whitstable. Coincidently, a rustic bunting was reported in ...

I was becoming increasingly frustrated at seeing reports of hundreds of waxwings in the North. When were they coming down here? David Campbe...

I went to see this American wader on 5 November before it disappeared. On the day I went the weather was rainy; just my luck! I didn't c...

This was my 3rd visit to the Scillies in a little over a year, but my first trip for the autumn migration. From the ferry I saw 2 Manx shear...

I am trying to concentrate on increasing my British list, so I went to Newhaven to see the rose-coloured starling which had been around for ...

Left early today for the red-flanked bluetail at Waxham. Got there at 09.15 but went the wrong way. Spent a long time on the dunes. It didn...

Yesterday, I went further than I normally like to twitch for the solitary sandpiper at Black Hole Marsh, Seaton in Devon. I started off goin...