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…

Bird Fair Day 2 – time to buy for Christmas

Phew! What a scorcher! I mean, of course, the weather although these four ladies from Froglife, who’d like to collect your wildlife memories, might get a similar response.  In a sea of blokes (yes, like me), in jeans (yes, like me), it’s nice to see some people have made the effort!        …

It’s Winter all over the world – readers’ offer.

My summer holidays are beginning to fall into a familiar pattern.  We book an attractive cottage in the West Country which is every bit as nice as it looked on the internet when we arrive and see it in reality.  The weather is a bit English, the phone reception is appalling, there’s a nice pub…

Bird Fair – Day 1

It’s actually quite hard work enjoying yourself at the Bird Fair – I don’t mean that you can’t enjoy yourself, just that it is a bit knackering.  It doesn’t quite have the buzz of the Cheltenham Festival for me but today the period between 0930 and 1730 just whizzed by. I have this strategy of…