I wrote a Guest Blog for my young friend Findlay Wilde – have a look at it. This is me at the age of thirteen holding a trophy that I and a companion had won in the Under -14 (but Over-12) age category in a schools competition run by WWT at Slimbridge. I was handed…
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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…
Sunday book review – Norfolk Bird Sketches by Robert Gillmor
This attractive book of sketches will remind you, as it did me, of days spent on the north Norfolk coast, at places such as Holme, Titchwell and Cley, looking at birds. But I, and maybe you, look at birds in a different way from the way that Robert Gillmor has looked at birds for getting…
Bird Fair – Day 3
We might as well call it the International Bird Fair – I spent a very large part of today talking to friends and colleagues from Spain and the USA. It was good to meet friends from the BirdLife International partner in Spain, SEO, again and other birders from various parts of Spain too. And the…