Not Quite Scilly

When I take a few days off work I like to do constructive things with the time. I like to... Still, exercise is constructive, right...

In Bridport, the first day of meteorological spring was about as good as it gets. Cloudless blue sky, wall-to-wall sunshine, and old bl...

This post has taken an age to write, and before it gets going I just want briefly to say why. In a UK birding context alone, A Date W...

Alan Vittery has distilled seven decades of notes and records into a remarkable book. There are one or more highlights for every single dat...

A quick birdy update... Finally, a break in the relentless wet and/or cold weather means I have a massive backlog of work that needs attenti...

Some years ago I was researching the rare bird adjudication process for this blog when I came across references to Alan Vittery in the BBRC ...

Driving between jobs today I spied a field of Mute Swans , so pulled over to quickly check them for stray Whoopers or Bewick's . Nee...