Little Stints are remarkable, small, sweet calidris waders. Each one weighs about 21 grams but manages a migration of up…
South Aussie birding on the other side of the world
I have just spent Christmas and New Year back in Oxford, where I lived for 24 years and where my…
Rajasthan, India (second innings)
Thank you for joining me for the second innings! In the first dig I concentrated on the #1 target of…
Great Indian Bustard (first innings)
I like Bustards. This interesting-looking family mainly inhabit vast, sparse plains and deserts and includes some of the world’s largest…
Bogey Birds: The Sequel
Back in Feb I wrote a blog post entitled “Double Bogey”, describing how I finally connected with two Australian birds…
UAE Beginnings
In September 2023 I moved from Adelaide to Abu Dhabi. Well, not completely…. I started a new, full-time job at…
Red Letter Day
What could be better than a “Red Letter day”? Perhaps a “Scarlet Letter day”! There are good arguments that South…
Double Bogey
To “dip” on on a bird is to try to see it, but fail. All birders dip from time to…
Back-to-back Gluepot
We are lucky, living in Adelaide, to be only a 3-and-a-bit hour drive from Gluepot Reserve, a former cattle station…
The 28 year twitch
Twenty-eight years ago – quite literally, half a life-time – I brought Nikki to WA for a holiday. We’d been…