This week’s wine is a very easy-drinking white blend from the South African winery A.A. Badenhorst Family Wines. It’s going to be a pretty...

What happens when you put a naturalist in a kayak, adrift in Africa? ‘There are no crocs around here,’ said a smiling bartender. I...

I hope you will forgive my rather lurid title. No, I am not going to tell you about some blood-sucking bird with hypnotic powers....

David Sibley’s sketch of an Atlantic Puffin. I sat down at my dining room table, its wooden surface covered by a wrinkled white tablecloth...

I can’t recall a year when birders were as thrilled to see the month of May pass as we all are in 2020. I...

Two weeks ago I mentioned that we rarely got rain at this time of year. However, sometimes it does rain and on 26th May...

It has often been said that a murmuration of starlings is one of the most spectacular sights in nature. When a huge flock of...

Don`t worry – after having written about birding Shanghai in April a few weeks ago, I will not continue this theme for longer –...