I have had to wait a long time to write this post. Red Warblers, Cardellina rubra, are easy enough to find in their highland...

It may be a sore subject, but which beat gets the honour of recording a new species onto the life and year list? Corey,...

I was working under a misapprehension to start off with. After receiving the advice, “Try looking from the lock bridge below the weir” I...

Just when I thought that our beats were taking it easy after the exertions of September, Dragan pops up in  Costa Rica and takes...

Hurricane Nate looked set to disrupt my first visit to Louisiana. Reports predicted that we would make landfall in New Orleans at around the...

September has freshened the resolve of the beats. 10 of them contributed 147 checklists identifying 1126 species of bird. That is the best monthly total by a...

It is essential that, once learned, any new word should be used immediately in a showy manner to make one look smart. Thus, I...

This dilemma comes from a visit to see my sister this week and being squeezed for time. She happens to live in the middle...