I have yet to meet a birder who did not consider dippers to be special. Any dipper, any continent,...

Noisy wing beats, heavy landing behind the stern, water splashing everywhere and then, a hit of a heavy wing...

May 2009 After a wakeup call at highly uncivilised 3.45 am, at the crack of dawn I am sitting...

Before my trip to Austria that bridged January and February, I had never really had that country high on...

As usual at this time of year, I visited the city landfill to look for gulls. To be honest,...

The entire world, it seemed, was buried under two feet of snow. I was checking weather forecasts for days...

I dipped a bird recently – possibly a lifer. While crossing Gramos Mountain in northern Greece, a Dendrocopos woodpecker...

In the most of Europe, Brown Bear is a mythical creature that lives only in mediaeval tapestries and folk...