Part 1: The wildlife bits… I am regularly on the lookout for activities and destinations that I might be able…
Wrentastic Sunday
In 2007 I visited South Australia as a birder for the first time. I was here to give a keynote…
Top End Part 3 (the final chapter)
…continued from Part 2… Day 7 We began the day with a superbly scenic walk up the escarpment at Victoria…
Top End Part 2
…continued from Part 1… Day 4 The start of the day was structured around a pre-booked activity, a cruise on…
Northern Territory Top End, Part 1
7-16 Aug 2020 Preamble Six or seven years into our Australian sojourn I still had a few birds to collect…
Lockdown waders, tringa to pratincoles (the final stretch)
And so, plover-lovers, we finally come to the end of my wade through waders, peek at peeps, my stint writing…
Lockdown waders, Dowitchers to Phalaropes
The penultimate post in this series, taking you on a whirlwind tour of my wader birding and twitches. Maybe not…
Lockdown waders, Calidris
Part 4 is dedicated to the largest wader family, calidris, all migratory birds of the coast. There’s an awful lot…
Lockdown waders, Hooded Plover to Turnstones
Continuing my blog-journey through all the waders I have seen around the world. Buckle up — there are some belters…
Lockdown waders: Vanellus to Charadrius
The second installment of my journey through waders past and present. Today I look at plovers: ones that used to…