By English standards, Abberton Reservoir is huge. It covers 1,700 acres (700ha), is crossed by two causeways, supports an Essex Wildlife Trust nature reserve,...

Birdwatching is all about timing. Sometimes you get it right, but sometimes you don’t. Last week my companion Andrew and I set off for...

The weather forecast was grim, and the reality was even worse: New Year’s Day 2025 was horrible, starting with gale-force winds, then giving way,...

Ask any British birdwatcher to name their least favourite birds and the chances are high that the Common Pheasant, Phasianus colchicus, will top the...

Serious birders may have an obsessive interest in birds, but as we all know one thing they don’t like are birds which, they believe,...

There are scores of birds around the world that have robin in their name – Australia has no fewer than 18 – but the...

Few birds are as confusingly named as the three species of wagtails we see regularly in Britain. The best-named is the Pied Wagtail, the...

I’m really a birdwatcher, not a bird photographer, though these days I usually carry a camera. I do so for a variety of reasons,...