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I wrote the following post today for a really interesting blog set up by a good mate of mine Alan Tilmouth called The Crow Council ("...a loose

Okay, yes, I've done this line to death, but humour me and 'picture the scene' anyway. Twenty keen birders are standing beside a farm gate as a rose

My, how time flies. Just a blink of an eye ago I was sitting in a hotel - along with a group of top birders and birding journos

You would probably have had to have been asleep under a rock for eighteen months or totally without any form of communication whatsoever to have not come across

At the British Birdwatching Fair last month I met - as I've recounted a few times before - Andy Swash, Managing Director of

I've been reading a lot of bird books lately - the happy result of being sent the potential Christmas best-sellers by a selection of publishers (those of them

'Kingfisher' is one of four books that the good folk at New Holland Publishing recently sent me to review - and of the four (the others are

Writing a guide to an entire bird Order or Family is an ambitious undertaking. Virtually all bird groups have their well-known and well-loved members, but virtually all also

A few days ago I had a chance (courtesy of Zeiss UK) to use the 'new' Zeiss PhotoScope 85 T* FL, a combined telescope and 7 megapixel digital