All posts tagged tom mckinney

The 'Best Bits of 2011' one with some of the funnier, weirder, and inspiringer most inspirational moments culled from various episodes of The Conference Calls. (Enormous thanks to

The one with guest Steve Dudley, senior administrator at the BOU and ex officio member of the BOU's Records Committee, where we find out whether the BOU is

The one with guest Rob Lambert, life-long birder and academic based at Nottingham University, friend of every birding great, and frequent contributor to the BBC Natural History Unit,

The one with guest Richard Fray, ex-pat Brit birder and 'Leicester Llama' blogger now living in Patagonia, Arizona where he leads bird tours and talks with an English

The one with guest Garry Bagnell, one of the UK's most passionate - and most mocked - twitchers, where we look briefly at last week's rarities on Scilly

The one with guest Jim Lawrence, Development Manager of BirdLife International's Preventing Extinctions Programme, live from the Scilly Isles. In a 'Scilly Special' we talk about the Scillies,

The one where we talk about 'misID/hoaxers': we look at The Sun's 'Portsmouth Penguin'; we move smoothly onto an ID cock-up by one of our own; glide effortlessly

The one where we talk about September's UK birds, ask whether if Buff-breasted Sandpipers become common they'd ever be 'trash', again highlight the awful illegal trapping situation on

The one with guest journalist and author Stuart 'The Birdman' Winter where we talk about the after-effects of Hurricane Katia, Nick's self-found Pallid Harrier, a 'good' gamekeeper near