November 26th: Madness from the world of “Bird Flu”…

Congratulations to all those of us who’ve been saying that knee-jerk Governments world-wide might just start killing wild birds to prevent the spread of “bird flu” - even though it’s not been proven to be spread by wild birds but is endemic in poultry: a “Told-you-so Award” [...]

Regular visitors to this blog may have noticed that I’m getting a little hot and bothered about the way the media is reporting “Poultry Flu” - aka “The End of The World” - and the impact that such scare-mongering may have on migratory birds should panic take root.

I won’t indulge in wild speculation (unlike so [...]

In the mid-1980’s I went on a birdwatching trip to India and Nepal with two friends. In ten weeks we saw over 400 species. Some sightings have long since faded from memory, but one bird we did see that still burns brightly in my mind’s eye we found in a protected forest reserve about half-way [...]