It was a very windy day in Edinburgh today - glad I wasn't out birding to be honest. But I did think back to the unseasonally strong wi...

The weather was poor in Edinburgh this afternoon and at one point I saw a sawbill duck cutting through the rainy squalls. Just a brief view ...

For fear of getting doused in foul-smelling vomit, I didn't fancy getting too close to this young Northern Fulmar on North Ronaldsay, O...

I could not resist another lunchtime trip to the royal park of Holyrood. Once again the Iceland Gull was up at Dunsapie and performing well...

The first month of the year is coming to its end already, and I see on Bubo listing that I am well off the Lothian list pace. My running to...

A quick trip up the road to Alnwickhill water treatment works turned in to a long stake-out today. Soon after I arrived one of my target bir...

A quick trip to the nearest duck pond today, in lieu of 'real birding', gave me fifteen minutes to look at Black-headed Gulls . In p...

Interest in Gannets has been heightened this week with a report of a possible Australasian Gannet off the English east coast. In Lothian we...