A real birding highlight of a recent trip to North Uist was hearing Lapland Buntings singing for the first time. A group of at least 41 bird...

A quick walk around Alnwickhill this evening produced 4 Tufted Duck on the water works and male Kestrel carrying prey. That's fine, I t...

I am quite a fan of Common Buzzards and, like many folk these days, can see them from the garden most days of the week. This shot was take...

I popped into Blindwells, East Lothian, for the first time this evening. Just a quick 10 minute stroll but long enough to hear my first coup...

Regular readers of this blog (Hi, Mum, Stephen and Joseph!) will realise that I am particularly keen on raptors, so the recent trip to the O...

April seems to have flown by, which is exactly what most of the best birds I have seen this month have done. My Lothian yearlist has remain...

Very distant record shots of a behaviour that I have long wanted to witness - mutual talon-locking and aerial cartwheeling in White-tailed ...

Ever wondered just how big a Common Gull is? Well, here's a handy picture with a Golden Eagle for scale. Taken in Harris, Outer Hebrid...

This was probably one of the more surprising encounters last week on Harris, Western Isles - for the Golden Eagle that is. The Common Buzza...

I spoke to Ken Shaw briefly after a Lothian SOC meeting a few weeks ago. "If you are in the Outer Hebs for 10 days in mid-April you wil...