I was back at Edinburgh Zoo today. Once again I did not have time to do more than fire off some quick shots of the free-flying Night Herons ...

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned on the blog that I had visited Duddingston to try to 'fluke a Bittern '. Not having seen one at th...

A visit to Edinburgh Zoo with work allowed me to catch up with both free-flying Night Herons today. These birds are thought to be around 18...

This Woodcock was one of two that I watched coming in-off the North Sea at Torness. One bird was seen at distance but this one was much mor...

With at least 8 Iceland Gulls being reported at a landfill site in West Lothian today, maybe the Iceland Gull invasion is about to reach u...

Last weekend I decided to take a stroll around Linlithgow Loch. A lovely location and a spot of great historical importance, my motivatio...

I have been searching for readable colour rings on gulls at Alnwickhill for over a year. In that time I have only managed a single read - a ...

I have been lucky to manage some great birding over the last couple of weekends, and as a result my yearlist topped 100 today. I started the...

Spent an hour at Burdiehouse today looking through the flocks of corvids, pigeons, finches and buntings that are currently feeding in the st...

Like many of the Iceland Gulls of this winter's invasion into north-western Europe, this big 2nd winter bird was clearly hungry and...