Not Quite Scilly

December always feels to me like a surplus month. Bird and moth-wise it's basically all over by the end of November, but...well...h...

An afternoon walk to West Bay and back seemed like a fine way to check out my new Zoom F1 Field Recorder. I've set the record level...

Bluesky is now a busy place. I had hoped it would become a useful resource of natural history news and information, and it has. Consequ...

A late-morning visit to West Bay today, with three main goals. One, find a Black Redstart ; two, see if any Purple Sandpipers have tur...

In a local birding context, 'not annual' is a label given to those usually desirable species that cannot be guaranteed every ye...

Exactly eight months ago I wrote a post about joining Bluesky Social . Having dumped X (formerly Twitter) around seven months prior to that...

In 2010 a Brown Shrike lived on Staines Moor for a while. For some reason that I cannot recall, in December I happened to be nearby, s...