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 … More

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 … More

7-16 Aug 2020 Preamble Six or seven years into our Australian sojourn I still had a few birds to collect … More

And so, plover-lovers, we finally come to the end of my wade through waders, peek at peeps, my stint writing … More

The penultimate post in this series, taking you on a whirlwind tour of my wader birding and twitches. Maybe not … More

Part 4 is dedicated to the largest wader family, calidris, all migratory birds of the coast. There’s an awful lot … More

Continuing my blog-journey through all the waders I have seen around the world. Buckle up — there are some belters … More

The second installment of my journey through waders past and present. Today I look at plovers: ones that used to … More

A few weeks into worldwide lockdown the Facebook group #birdthefeckathome started a great thread that attempted to compile a complete … More

Lockdown has done strange things to people. I like to think I have carried on pretty much as normal, and … More