One of my favourite walks when I visit my parents in England is the walk out to Hilbre in the Dee Estuary. The island...

Many of us picture owls in the sky, silently soaring, or perched atop tree branches or light poles as they sleep or keep an...

Another Superb Owl Sunday has come and gone. Did you see any superb owls? I got my owl fix last weekend but spent the...

It has come to my attention that this blog needs more gulls. Of course this is self-evident as you can never have enough gulls...

Sometimes birds just don’t do what you expect! Black-tailed Native-hens are an irruptive species that can show up anywhere, but generally when they do...

One of my favorite holidays of the year falls on this auspicious weekend. What are you more excited about: watching birds on Saturday or...

At the snowy Danube riverbank, we are waiting for geese to come to their roost inside the mostly submerged island. It is a January...

As I mentioned in passing last week, I’ve just passed nine years since I moved to the Land of the Long White Cloud, Aotearoa,...