30th May 2010 Its the second bank holiday weekend in May, and that means Bird Race time! We had learnt a few things from last year, when we ...

w/c 17th May 2010 . I don't like the heat. As someone who does a lot of walking, the last thing I want is to arrive at my chosen locatio...

15th May 2010 . After a nervy week-long wait, the news that the Oriental Pratincole had stayed in Lincolnshire came as a great relief. Despi...

14th May 2010 In a change to my usual Friday evening Whitlingham jaunt, I joined Gary at Rockland Broad. In theory, anything good here carr...

9th May 2010 A non-birding day in order to socialise a bit for once. I embarked on the Cromer leg of the "Crustacea Crawl", a cra...

8th May 2010 . I decided in advance that I would get up at 4am in the morning and go down to Whitlingham. My logic was a sort of vague ...

3rd & 4th May 2010 . Normally Whitlingham would be a no-go zone on a Bank Holiday, but as it was raining I figured it was safe. Adam cam...

2nd May 2010 . Despite the northerly winds and showers, I had agreed in advance to a trip to the North Norfolk coast looking for newly arriv...

1st May 2010 . The first day of the Bank Holiday weekend, and showers were forecast. The inevitable compromise was to go somewhere fairly cl...

28th & 30th April 2010 . Following on from the weekends Bluethroat, another two cracking birds turned up on Wednesday (unless you consid...

27th April 2010 . Aiming to make the most of the warm weather I set out after work to try to nudge my Whitlingham list closer to the 100 mar...

25th April 2010 . Anything I saw today was bound to be a bit of an anticlimax, unless a Bee-eater had flown over the house calling then sat ...

24th April 2010 . Birding has many levels of appeal, and a myriad reasons for doing it. However, brightly coloured or elaborately plumaged b...

23rd April 2010 . A midweek trip to Whitlingham had failed to turn up any migrants, and arguably the best bird of the week was a Grey Heron ...

17th & 18th April 2010 . Following last weeks Scotland adventure it was back to local matters over the weekend. Saturday was a beautiful...