Paperback now published

  Behind the Binoculars is now out in paperback – even better value. Funnily enough, a second volume of interviews, Behind More Binoculars, is also approaching publication.  More on that later.  

Your choice

There is a new category in the Bird Photographer of the Year Awards this year – and you get to choose the winner. 30 excellent photographs that didn’t make the shortlist can be viewed here and the one with the most ‘likes’ by 21 March will win £250 and will be published in the book…

Toad all success?

The Solway Firth is the only area of Scotland with Natterjack Toads and one of the area’s important sites is the Mersehead RSPB nature reserve where storms damaged the dunes where the toads hibernate in 2013. New shallow ponds were created across the site for the toads to breed in. In spring 2014 there were…

Guest blog – Seeing the wood for the trees by Ian Parsons

Ian Parsons spent twenty years working as a Ranger with the Forestry Commission, where he not only worked with birds of prey and dormice, but where he developed his passion for trees.  Now a freelance writer, Ian runs his own specialist bird tour company leading tours to Extremadura.  For more details see www.griffonholidays.com This is…

Birds and trees

  Do you remember this image from Oscar Dewhurst? When I saw the image below, sent by blog reader Chris Gee, I wondered for a minute whether it was ‘same tree, different bird’ but a closer look proved that it wasn’t. Have you answered this short questionnaire on Little Owls?