Many years ago I was a motoring correspondent. It was much easier, and a lot more fun, to write...

Ten days without a glimpse of the sun is a depressing experience, but that’s what we experienced here in...

Last week I wrote about the birds that fly over my Suffolk garden (in eastern England), this time it’s...

As we all know, birdwatchers love making lists. Here in the UK patch-listing is popular. A patch is usually...

October is one of the best months for birds in Britain, so why, with three weeks of the month...

I was a week into my trip to the Peloponnese, in south-west Greece, and my bird list had stagnated...

You know things are getting desperate when you get excited by an unexpected flock of Starlings. Here I was,...

While The Observer’s Book of Birds was an inspirational little book for me as a small child, it didn’t...