Convalescence

A few days after the weekend described in my last blog post I was booked in for surgery to repair … More

January 2021

I managed to cram in more birding in January 2021 than in the whole of the covid-affected 2020. Ebird tells … More

2020 has been a poor year for most birders. I’m no great exception, and had a planned trip to Peru … More

Western Whipbird is one of the so-called BIG THREE of south-west WA birding, the other two being Western Bristlebird and … More

In 2007 I visited South Australia as a birder for the first time. I was here to give a keynote … 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