Bill's Birding

One of those 'you-had-to-be-there' sunsets from a very cold and frosty walk to the top of Box Hill back on Sunday. Th...

Pogonocherus hispidus Christmas Eve came with a bit of a surprise at the Bill's Birding household this year, when this rather st...

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas from myself and this assortment of fungi found during a chilly foray on Fairmile Common with the British ...

I was in Bushy Park on Sunday evening as the light began to descent below the horizon. I was hoping - far too optimistically - for a vocal L...

In preparation for a moth trapping event I've organised at Sheepleas next Saturday night, I had a recce at the site back on Thursday eve...

It's been a pretty dire year, there's no getting around it. In the aftermath of last Wednesday's happenings, I found myself desp...

A chilly but sunny walk through Esher Common failed to turn up the presumably wintering Dartford Warbler I'd seen there a few weeks ago,...

The three occasions I ran the moth trap in the garden this October all yielded no moths, but a last minute decision to run the trap on a fre...

 Coleophora ibipennella That 'thing' in the photo above is the protective case of a tiny moth called  Coleophora ibipennella . ...

I made the run into town last Friday to book my Nikon D300s onto a well-needed spa break at one of the brand's repair centres just outsi...