You know things are getting desperate when you get excited by an unexpected flock of Starlings. Here I was, six days into a trip...

While The Observer’s Book of Birds was an inspirational little book for me as a small child, it didn’t take me long to want...

As a small child I was fascinated by animals, but it was when a pair of Blackbirds nested close to the house that I...

I’m sitting writing this in my study, its walls lined with books on birds and natural history. However, a worrying thought has struck me:...

Most of us have bogey birds – certain species that for one reason or another elude us for years. Forty years ago my bogey...

Selecting my Top Ten Breckland birds should have been easy, but there was one crucial decision to be made. Should my Top Ten be...

Some years ago I was birding in the hills outside Ranikhet, in Uttarakhand, in the foothills of the Himalayas. We had seen an interesting...

Goodbye August, I won’t be sorry to see you go. Unless you happen to live near the coast, in which case there are plenty...