Not Quite Scilly

The weather forecasters got it dead right today. Wet. Knowing about the impending rain inspired me to get a bit ahead with work so that I co...

Have you ever visited the Somerset Levels? No? Very sensible. Keep it that way, because birding the place will mess with your head. Up until...

I think it's fair to say that coarse angling today is very different to the hobby I so loved as a boy. There are heaps more fisheries no...

Back in September 1984 I took this photo of a Pectoral Sandpiper ... The location was Staines Res, on the drained N basin. My photogra...

Ah, it's all gone to pot rather... By far the most frustrating right now is my running, or rather, lack of it. Everything was going so...

I have a nasty cold right now. After a virus-free year or so it was inevitable that I would catch something eventually, because all around m...

Some of the most spectacular birding I have ever enjoyed has been a consequence of very cold weather. For example, the events of 18 December...