In October 2020 I was supposed to do a birding trip to Peru with Steve Young and other UK birding … More
Category: Australian birding
Lake Gilles
I last visited Lake Gilles in 2016. Paul Coddington and I had tried to go up the Strzelecki Track but … More
The Large Year
As readers of this blog (all one of me) will know, I am now year-listing for SA in 2021. Having … More
The worst twitch
When I left you, dear reader, I was stranded on 299 in the middle of a snap hard lockdown in … More
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 … More
Year listing
Birding around the Fleurieu Peninsula, the Coorong and the Mallee I’ve said a few times on this blog, and on … More
Tropical North Queensland, Part 2
It’s not called “rainforest” for nothing April 16, Day 8. I put the family on their respective flights back to … More
Not exactly a second honeymoon
Prologue If you have read other posts in my blog you might recall that I am constantly on the lookout … More
Video-scoping
I am first and foremost a birder, not photographer, even though I do take photos. Video comes a fairly distant … More
Convalescence
A few days after the weekend described in my last blog post I was booked in for surgery to repair … More