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Ecuador tour – August 2012 – Part 2. Hummingbirds, tanagers and more hummingbirds! . . . and still cold! Sachatamia Lodge was hi...

Ecuador tour – Part 1 – August 2012. 1.        Long flights, lost luggage, freezing cold (yes, even at the equator!) We s...

Flushed with my success with the Baillon's crake yesterday, I left at 05.00 this morning for Weymouth, Lodmoor, to see the short-billed ...

Was it worth the wait? Did we see it? Read on. Got to Rainham RSPB at about 6pm where those nice people in the RSPB had decided to keep th...

I haven't been out much since I got back from holiday so I was looking forward to the bird race at Canons Farm, Banstead Woods. I picked...

I went just after 6 a.m. on Saturday to keep watch over the young ones and take more photos. I saw both adults and 3 chicks, but I am please...

The Sutton peregrines raised 4 chicks last year and 5 chicks this year. That must be almost a record! Sadly, it's becoming doubtful wh...

I've given up traditional twitching in favour of foreign trips but I have added 3 British ticks to my list in as many weeks. The first w...

We spent a long weekend in Istanbul over 3-7 May. I decided to travel light and took only my Canon compact zoom camera (SX30). A big mistake...

I'm still wading through a mountain of photos from my Costa Rica trip but, in the meantime, I went today with David Campbell to his patc...