We were both up ear packing our bags ready for the return flight later in the evening back to the UK before loading them into Raymonds car a...

A leisurely breakfast in Pedang, for a change,  before taking the mini bus to the airport and catching our Air Asia flight back to Kuala Lum...

Checking out of our hotel we set off in the vehicles for our last morning birding in Sumatra and the Tapan Road. With Mika opting to go with...

Following our successful trip to Danau Kaco for Sumatran Ground Cuckoo we returned to try and see some of the birds we'd missed in our haste...

Tapan Road is the main road between Sungei Punuh and Mauro Sako. Its a busy road with high and low altitude birding accompanied by the stenc...

After the inevitable breakfast of hard boiled eggs and toast and jam (this hotel had a toaster) and fresh fruit we set off in the mini van t...

By now the mood in the team had changed dramatically from the first few days. Now we'd seen all the target birds everyone was much happier. ...

With the team splitting in two and half going up to Camp Cochoa and the rest, including me, taking the easier option of trying again for Sum...

On our third day in Kerinci the weather changed for the better and we made the most of it by getting up early and doing a bit of 'thermallin...

Arriving at our hotel in Kerinci well after dark we met our ground team of Bobbi and Yudi from Explore Kerinci  - see here . Bobbi was the b...

The main target of this trip was to see a few of the rare and endangered endemic species of birds that call the forested slopes of Sumatra'...

My previous post about the Long-tailed Shrike in Fife got me thinking of another rare shrike I'd seen in the area. You have to go all the wa...

I was seabird ringing on Puffin Island when news broke on Sunday of a Long-tailed Shrike found at Crail in Fife. Coincidentally it was very ...

I was reminded of this twitch by a mate of mine, Malc Curtin, in a comment he made on Facebook about Fred driving us home in torrential rai...