More travel than birding for once This trip started out as a cunning plan ™ for me to see the…
KI: Beaches and wildlife
Recently this article about the “40 Best Beaches in Europe” was published in The Guardian. I had just returned from…
Eaglehawk Neck
Eaglehawk Neck is a sliver of land barely a few hundred metres wide that divides the Tasman peninsula, SE of…
2021 Wrap
When I left off recounting the tale of my 2021 birding saga, I had just completed a trip up to…
The Outback Loop (Part 2 of 2)
Day 4, Sept 30 The journey up on Day 2, plus a full day 3 in the Mungerannie region had…
The Outback Loop (Part 1 of 2)
In October 2020 I was supposed to do a birding trip to Peru with Steve Young and other UK birding…
Lake Gilles
I last visited Lake Gilles in 2016. Paul Coddington and I had tried to go up the Strzelecki Track but…
The Large Year
As readers of this blog (all one of me) will know, I am now year-listing for SA in 2021. Having…
The worst twitch
When I left you, dear reader, I was stranded on 299 in the middle of a snap hard lockdown in…
Marooned on 299
The continuing adventures of a recently-confessed year-lister… When I left off after the last blog post, I was on 282…