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Back on my travels again after a short break at home, and I’m off East: to Singapore and then (for a whole day!) to Sydney, Australia. And the timing couldn’t be much better, as I arrived in Singapore just a week after the 25th Singapore Bird Race. The winning team, ‘Strix’, managed to find a [...]

If you are a person who reads this blog regularly you know that I recently moved to Queens and spend quite a bit of my spare time in Forest Park. It is near my apartment, it is beautiful, and it is a great place to see birds. Beyond that though, it is as [...]

Following my adventure in Malaysia’s Panti Forest and the sighting of the barely-known “White-faced Plover” on Singapore’s Changi Beach on March 22nd, I still had the morning of the 23rd available before flying down to Sydney, Australia (and the 27th when I’d be back in Singapore before flying to the UK). Normally I may well [...]

Progress in a Big Year is usually a series of quiet days punctuated by leaps and bounds. ‘Day One’ of course is a leap, because everything is new. The first time you get to go to a Reserve will be another leap; rainy days sat at home will be a time to catch up and [...]

“Sleep can wait, I’m going birding”. As a way of life it’s a pithy summary, a clear statement of intent, and an expression of bravado that hints at the Damoclean Sword awaiting the foolhardy birder who really thinks that he can do without “A chamber deaf to noise and blind of light”…or it’s the resigned [...]