Made it with 30 days to spare: on 1 December I notched up my 200th species of the year in the UK, a handsome...

I was first introduced to what is generally called house style many years ago, when I started work as a lowly editorial assistant on...

Many years ago I was a motoring correspondent. It was much easier, and a lot more fun, to write about Porsches rather than Peugeots,...

Ten days without a glimpse of the sun is a depressing experience, but that’s what we experienced here in England for the first 10...

Last week I wrote about the birds that fly over my Suffolk garden (in eastern England), this time it’s the turn of the real...

As we all know, birdwatchers love making lists. Here in the UK patch-listing is popular. A patch is usually somewhere not too far from...

October is one of the best months for birds in Britain, so why, with three weeks of the month already passed, was my month’s...

I was a week into my trip to the Peloponnese, in south-west Greece, and my bird list had stagnated on 40 species. So one...