Full of the cold, I decided to spend the morning in bed and then spend the afternoon on 'light duties' in the garden. I was expectin...

A colleague told me that his neighbour had photographed a parrot in his garden in Swanston, Edinburgh, yesterday. I was keen to see the pics...

A Chiffchaff was singing in the back garden first thing yesterday morning. Maybe the haar was so thick it couldn't really tell where...

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 ...