There’s no better way to kick start a new birding year than with a lifer. And what if that lifer could be a species which you’d never expected to see in Britain? Well, that would be just dandy! So it was that we found ourselves at a freezing Ynyslas on Read more…
Sunday dawned drab and dreary so after a very nice cooked breakfast at the B&B we returned to Ynyslas hoping for another crack at those Scoters. Although the sea was a bit calmer the Common Scoter rafts were still too far away for me to be happy at distinguishing the Read more…
This weekend was my four year and ten month anniversary of meeting Emma and it seemed like an ideal excuse to head away for the weekend to our old university haunt of Aberystwyth. We set off nice and early on Saturday and arrived at our first stop, Cilsan bridge in Read more…