Occasionally Birding St Helens 2008-2014

Greenshank 3 (Year 201) Spotted Redshank 2 (adult summer plumage) Little Egret 4 Little Gull 4 (1st summers)

A few butterfly photos from a day spent in North West England. Some of these species (especially the fritillaries) cannot be identified from...

A few photos from our day out to North Wales. Numbers in brackets are the approximate number of each species seen. Cistus Forester (60) Cist...

I was at Burscough with Ray looking for slow worms when at about 3pm news broke that the Royal Tern which had been at Porthmadog last Monda...

Hooded Crow 1 Reptiles: Slow Worm 7

Well, I was up at 5am and on the road for 5:30, fully intending to visit the island today and stay on over the tide, but it was getting less...

Red-necked Phalarope 1 m Late news of a Red-necked Phalarope at Martin Mere had us scrambling for the scopes and jumping in the car at 4:20p...