A great white egret was a new species for me at Hope Carr today. It must have flown over the sewage works and straight over my head becau...

Dave contacted me this morning regarding a red-necked phalarope which he had just found at Marshside, Southport. He also mentioned an ama...

Cattle egret numbers just keep on growing in the north west, with Marshside seemingly a hotspot for the species. My previous best was eig...

Pectoral sandpiper juvenile at Blackpool Wake Park today. A quick count of the records in my database reveals that this is the 23rd Pecto...

Shortly after I left Lunt on Sunday after having seen the adult American Golden Plover, it was amazingly joined by a second bird! I calle...

Nice to see a cracking adult summer plumage American golden plover at Lunt today. I saw the adult at Marshside about a week later than th...

I called in at Fluke Hall near Pilling last Tuesday (3rd) with Ray for a look at the female wheatear which had been present for a few day...

Where's the year gone? It's Leach's petrel time already. This evening I adopted a different approach to seeing these enigmati...

Photo: Brown Booby, Kynance Cove, the Lizard. News of a brown booby in Cornwall earlier in the week which was a first for Britain piqued...

Photo: Black-throated divers in Applecross Bay. A quick day visit to Applecross for work today, but I was able to get in at least some b...

Southern Hawker in Oxfordshire today. The next two photos are a mature male southern hawker at Hope Carr in early September.