Uganda Part 2: Gorillas

…continued from part 1 23 July When I left off in Part 1, we were spending the night at Rwakobo … More

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

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

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