Win a signed copy of Behind the Binoculars

Soon you will be able to buy a new book of mine which I’ve put together with my friend Keith Betton and will be published by Pelagic (who also published Fighting for Birds). It’s called Behind the Binoculars and it’s a series of interviews with birders about how they first got into birds, what birds…

Henry enters a National Park

Henry enters the Cairngorms National Park – more raptors on the logo than in the park?   #HaveYouSeenHenry? Keep in touch with Hen Harrier Day events through this website.  

Access to information is missing

Sometimes I’m busy, and sometimes I let things slip, but I usually come back to them with terrier-like tenacity. Using the hopeless GOV.UK site I found it impossible to understand how I could discover whether open access land, such as that depicted on this sign in the Peak District, would be closed or open a…

Puffins, red-faced with embarrassment

It’s been a bad few weeks for the Puffin – only tenth in the vote for our national bird and listed in the European Red List of birds. It’s not having a good 2015. The first was just a bit of fun, the latter is a matter of life and extinction.  The Puffin is one…

Oscar Dewhurst – Whitethroat

Oscar writes: Walking through some scrub early one morning I heard a Whitethroat singing and soon spotted it at the top of a Hawthorn bush. Moving round so the sun was at a better angle I was able to get a few images before it took off. Nikon D800, Nikon 600mm f/4 AF-S II lens,…