Austin's Birding Blog

Western Sandpiper: With less than a dozen British records this bird was definitely on my hit list. However,  when news broke on over the wee...

Green Finch: Saturday morning enjoying may garden feeder visitors. Quiet during this time of year as there is lots of natural food around, b...

Black Scoter: After carrying out a series of preliminary ecological appraisals near Edinburgh and Aberdeen I planned a trip to Blackdog beec...

Elegant Tern: This is the summer that keeps on giving, another new bird added to the list.  I was half contemplating going for the Oriental...

Black-browed Albatross: This bird is one of my all time sought after and hotly anticipated birds. Not only is it an astonishing bird, majest...

Long-eared Owl: Such a marvelous sight and such a privilege to observe these shy and elusive birds on a site that I've been monitoring....

Rose-coloured Starlings: This is a  rare visitor  for anyone's garden feeders but even more rare with it being a garden in Greater Manch...

Red-necked Stint:  This weekend just gets better and better!  After yesterday successful twitch to Ham Wall I was quite looking forward to a...

River Warbler: Well this was a turn out for the books, a baby free saturday, minimal negotiations with Dawn a 2am start and I've just ad...

Lesser Grey Shrike: After a couple of bad weeks of back to back dips I was relieved to have finally broken my bad streak by ticking the litt...

Red Fox: Back again, and not soon enough as I was eager to spend another evening with the local fox family and wasn't disappointed as I...