PART TWO – For some years now I have wanted to experience the desert birding in Morocco, and during 2017 I was fortunate enough to achieve my goal and I spent a week there, between 10th March and 20th March 2017, birding in the special desert areas. I traveled with Boletas Birdwatching Tours, operated by Josele […]

For some years now I have wanted to experience the desert birding in Morocco and during 2017 I was fortunate enough to achieve my goal and I spent a week there, between 10th March and 20th March, birding in the special desert areas. I traveled with Boletas Birdwatching Tours, operated by Josele Saiz. Our team comprised

I spent Saturday 4th March 2017 with Glynn and Richard at various coastal sites in North Yorkshire, a favourite area of ours and only a few hours drive from home. The over wintering Great Northern Diver and Black-necked Grebe were showing really well in the harbour at Scarborough, but the early morning weather was really grey

Just back from a few days away in Dorset, staying at one of our favourite places on the Studland peninsular. Only away a couple of nights, so not a great deal of time to do any proper birding and we also caught the tail end of Storm Doris on Thursday 23rd Feb. Despite a lovely

Birding this last weekend was a somewhat mixed bag. An unseasonal Bluethroat had been performing very well at a local Nature Reserve near Spalding in Lincolnshire for the past week and despite the many Waxwings around this winter, I had not really caught up with any. A brief view of a single bird in Norfolk was

A Red-breasted Goose was being seen with regularity amongst several thousand Pink-footed Geese at Pilling Moss, Pilling in Lancashire. So, Saturday 11th February, Glynn, Richard and myself decided to go and see it. On arrival, the difficulty was trying to find the large flock of Pink-feet in a vast area we were unfamiliar with. We set the

A much favoured county of mine, especially as my late father’s family was born there and I spent a great deal of my childhood at the family home in Wainfleet. So, Saturday 4th February was spent around the Donna Nook area, after a brief visit to Rufford Park in Nottinghamshire, for Hawfinch. We were not

I spent this morning, Sunday 29th Jan, at my local patch at Staunton Harold Reservoir. Another gloomy morning with heavy mist making visibility impossible across the reservoir. I was determined to try and find a Tree Creeper, so I decided to spend half an hour in the little copse by the car park. A fruitless