Austin's Birding Blog

Hudsonian Godwit: Congratulations to a good friend of mine Colin Wells who found this brilliant bird on his patch. It's believed that t...

Zino's Petrel:  After booking a selection of Wind Bird Pelagics and land based birdwatching tours we stayed in a small village in the so...

Lesser Redpoll: A new bird for the new garden, this redpoll had been visiting the feeders through the day. These are tiny finches, only slig...

Griffon Vulture: This week I turned 40, a milestone I have not been looking forward to, but one I could't escape. However I was able to ...

  Indigo Bunting: Electric blue excitment in Durham. The news broke on Saturday afternoon but having family commitments I was resigned to fe...

Garganey: Sunday morning and I'm back out watching birds, this time with Dawn an Autumn in tow. We headed over to Manvers Park where a ...

Marsh Sandpiper: A bird that breeds in open grassy steppe and taiga wetlands from easternmost Europe to central Asia. A rare vagrant to area...

Common Scoter:  These squat sea ducks are more commonly spotted as a line of dark ducks flying low over the water, or as large rafts of blac...

Dark-eyed Junco: I finally caught up with on of these charismatic little sparrows, a bird common across much of temperate North America and...

Ruddy Duck: This North American species were imported into wildfowl collections in Britain  due the 50s. Some birds escaped from these colle...

Black-necked Grebe:  Locally they are listed to breeding at Woolston Eyes NR in Warrington. But with with an abundant wintering numbers afte...

Capercaillie: The always excellent Damien Young is due to tie the knot in April, so we organised a stag weekend in Aviemore with the hopes ...