Double Bogey

To “dip” on on a bird is to try to see it, but fail. All birders dip from time to … More

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 … More

By the end of 2021 my Australian list was over 600 and there were almost no destinations left where I … More

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

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

The continuing adventures of a recently-confessed year-lister… When I left off after the last blog post, I was on 282 … More

It’s not called “rainforest” for nothing April 16, Day 8. I put the family on their respective flights back to … More