Literate herring, this way.

Lovely weather this weekend, calm and sunny. Today the clarity was brilliant, I've never seen Westray so clear and a whole range of s...

On Friday there was an amber aurora warning (http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ ) trouble was it was during the day, that's not much good. ...

Only one of yesterday's Bramblings remained and I didn't get out much as medium westerly with strong gusts when the rain squalls cam...

Louise has gripped me off with Buzzard, Brambling and Merlin of late, none of which made my January Foot It list. The Buzzard was seen in Ja...

Almost no birding yesterday but today once the rain cleared I was out and about.on foot again. A hunt for Woodcock again and Song Thrush fai...

"More lights are possible on Jan. 23th when a negative-polarity solar wind stream is expected to hit Earth's magnetic field. NOAA f...

Another FootIt outing, mostly to try to see the putative Lesser Scaup again and try to nail it. However the hound had other ideas and disapp...

Scooted down to Loch of Bosquoy with the canine assistant and found conditions to be pretty reasonable, the wind dropped and viewing conditi...

There's no birding for me here during the week as its too dark. I go to work in the dark and return after the gloaming. Thursday was a b...

 A surprise under the feeders on Saturday morning Woodpigeon has not been present here since the end of October and last year the fir...

Yesterday was spent tramping around the home patch. It was a beautiful, sunny calm day, until evening when it rained. Ideal for searching th...

This year I will be finding rare birds in Harray, at Palace, on The Brough and on North Ronaldsay and Sanday. This year's ambition bir...