Not Quite Scilly

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...

This morning was another in the current series of high pressure-induced deep gloom. Once again I was at Cogden first thing, initially t...

After a steady morning's work I was looking forward to a quiet lunch by the estuary. The tide was low and there were a few gulls to...

Next to the Cogden NT car park are a couple of picnic tables. First thing this morning I sat there quietly, coffee in hand, contemplating...