Bill's Birding

Whinchat has always been high on the mental bucket list of things I've always want to photograph. A spring-plumage male, fresh from A...

I was planning on giving you another update on the 1000 species in a 1km square   challenge in a long, drawn-out post this evening, but rat...

It's getting tense. A foray around in the garden yesterday morning, and an afternoon spent at Stokes Field has left me just five short o...

I was going to post another update to the 1km square year list, but I've done that a lot recently, and your probably bored to buggery of...

They don't get a brilliant press these days, and you could argue a pretty strong case for eradicating every last one of the screeching l...

After finding Bombus hypnorum (a.k.a Tree Bee) on the patch on Monday, I sat down and spent a bit of time that evening searching through va...

Another lovely sunny day out on the patch, but with noticably less migrant activity. Yesterday's Redstart had departed, and the only not...

Well, after a good five hour session on the local patch today, I certainly take back anything bad I said about spring in this morning's ...

Moths. They've had precious little air time on the blog in recent months for one reason; it's been crazy cold. Come to thi...

A slightly more graphic blog post than usual today, and if you're at all sensitive to the sight of defenseless frogs getting pulled out ...