A blog from Jim that is??? Apologies to the many visitors, really sorry folks - I've been tied up with plant activities / conferences / ...

I've been waiting for one of these a long time, any White Winged Adult would do...... A brief lunchtime call (with not another birder in...

There have been spasmodic reports of a Little Egret working the Rea Brook in Shrewsbury this Winter and I was well placed for the most recen...

I mentioned to one of my birding mates the other day that UK yearlisting wasn't a priority for me at the moment. "It gets you out a...

You could best describe the Mere Gull roost as lacklustre. It certainly lacked large Gulls but there were at least 2,000 Black headed Gulls ...

More to come soon of a short session which featured the Glaucous AND 1st Winter Iceland Gull - the latter very briefly in unfamilar close up...

I'd hoped for one but ended up with TWO Iceland Gulls at lunchtime today :-) :-) Here's the sequence of events.... A lucky break, f...