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Corey’s great report about his visit to the Adirondacks used the word ’skulking’, which reminded both him and Mike of a post I wrote a while back which discussed the meaning of several words us birders regularly use to describe birds that are hard to see. As you’re transferring everything over from your old blog, [...]

Blue-winged Pitta Pitta moluccensis
Singapore Botanic Gardens, 24 February 2006
 
In the middle of January 2006 an absurdly showy Blue-winged Pitta Pitta moluccensis was found over-wintering in the Singapore Botanic Gardens, remaining faithful to a small area of low, dank vegetation in a section of the gardens called the Ginger Garden. Over the next few weeks every [...]

Central Catchment Nature Reserve, Singapore
19 December 2005

I’ve just spent nine days at home on “standby” - ie not knowing where I’d get sent just before Christmas: it’s a worry, I tell you!

To cut a rather long story short (I can hear the cheers from here you ungrateful sods - these reports take ages to write [...]