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Okay, hands up any one of you who have ever had a day of their Big Year ruined by selfish, fricking idiots on horses chasing a fox across the flooded fields of one of the most renowned wetlands in the world? Anyone else? That’s just ME then eh…

Yes, today - on the first dry morning [...]

Standby time again and after three days of staring out of a hotel window onto a wet car park - and seeing no birds - while I waited for the airline’s scheduling team to give me a ring (it’s very glamorous sometimes this airline job of mine) I finally got a call: a ‘night-stop’ [...]

After a couple of hours spent at Crandon Park wondering - it has to be said - where all the birds were, I decided to hop a bus down to the end of Biscayne Key for a look around Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park [BBCFSP] (which isn’t much larger than its mouthful of [...]

I received an email on the 4th with the disturbing news that my rival lister, Graham, enjoyed his birding in Sydney (his first trip of the year) rather more than I’d hoped: whilst I’d been shivering in the northern winter in Japan he had been sauntering around that most beautiful of cities notching up a [...]

I woke up on the morning of Jan 3rd to the sounds of Starlings bickering over some bread-crumbs on the garage roof (the safest place to put out food in a neighbourhood full of cats). I’m back at home, and the first UK listing of the year can begin in earnest. Or at least [...]