Uganda Part 1 – Dinosaur Bird

Shoebill is a bird that is on most world-birders’ lists of most desirable species. It’s rare, monotypic, huge and prehistoric … More

Blighty

It’s been three years since I was in the UK and even longer since I managed to bird with Steve … More

More travel than birding for once This trip started out as a cunning plan ™ for me to see the … More

Recently this article about the “40 Best Beaches in Europe” was published in The Guardian. I had just returned from … More

Eaglehawk Neck is a sliver of land barely a few hundred metres wide that divides the Tasman peninsula, SE of … More

When I left off recounting the tale of my 2021 birding saga, I had just completed a trip up to … More

Day 4, Sept 30 The journey up on Day 2, plus a full day 3 in the Mungerannie region had … More

In October 2020 I was supposed to do a birding trip to Peru with Steve Young and other UK birding … More

I last visited Lake Gilles in 2016. Paul Coddington and I had tried to go up the Strzelecki Track but … More

As readers of this blog (all one of me) will know, I am now year-listing for SA in 2021. Having … More