Brian's birding blog

Whilst driving to our holiday cottage I bagged my first Raven of the year over Dartmoor and then on arrival found my first Dipper of the dec...

We found ourselves on Layer de le Haye causeway Abberton at 8am this morning scanning for the reported Fudge Duck. The wind was delivering s...

Another visit from a Sparrowhawk today, this time the female came in and helped herself to one of my House Sparrows and then sat in the shad...

I made the short trip to Lee Valley CP today and walked out to Hall Marsh to see if the Cattle Egrets were still there. On arrival I could s...

We watched the news all week of the Hampshire Hoopoe hoping it'd stick for the weekend and with reports coming in all day yesterday of i...

I managed to read a ring on one of yesterdays Med Gulls on the beach at Southend and sent it off to the French team involved. Today I got th...

I again headed down to Wallasea today hoping to see the male Hen Harrier reported yesterday but I also stopped on the way to see the Med Gul...