Occasionally Birding St Helens 2008-2014

Possibly the birding event of the year (the finders of the Tufted Puffin might disagree!), an Eastern Crowned Warbler at South Shields was i...

Pink-footed Goose - 8,000 Barnacle Goose - 1 juv. Not quite the spectacle of yesterday, but still plenty of activity around the flock which ...

Today I found my new local patch. It’s called North West England! I covered it from dawn until dusk and did it all by push bike, a grand tot...

So Bob's done it again and surprised us all! His first ever Christmas album was released on 13th October and contains such Christmas cla...

It's been a relatively quiet autumn on Hilbre following an excellent spring, but I'm never disppointed, because there is always some...

Long-billed Dowitcher 2 juvs. Water Rail 1 Green Sandpiper So yesterday we assumed that the dowitcher at Inner Marsh Farm was the same as th...

Long-billed Dowitcher 1 Hobby 2 Hen Harrier 1 Greenshank 2 We arrived at Marshside to discover that yesterdays Long-billed Dowitcher had not...