Larger flocks of migrating songbirds orient more accurately toward their population’s migratory direction than smaller flocks.

The Highlights Not to be outdone by the previous two months May delivered on the unexpected and continued the fine form of 2026. For inla...

My favourite from a rather gripping series of photos! Each year I help teach an ornithology field course for undergraduate biologists at the...

American Golden Plover, Otmoor A universal rule of county birding is that whenever you leave the county, rare birds turn up. I'm often away ...

Male Sparrowhawk What an exciting period of birding on the Meadow! Despite the continued anticyclonic conditions and northeasterlies, the fl...

The Highlights After a period dominated by visitors from the East, March provided some much-needed variety with several rarities from the ...

Birding Polokwane - one of the highlights of this leg This first blog post covers the part of our trip before we arrived in Kruger. I arrive...

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Daily sightings from Port Meadow collated from various sources and not all seen by me 13/03/2026 Black-tailed Godwit, Oystercatcher, 3 Sheld...

No words can describe watching this! Sunday 7th March. After a few days on patch with little to show for it, I must admit that something did...

With the South Africa series of blog posts currently languishing in development hell (various parts written; most photos edited but just a t...

The reality of urban birding - rare grey geese about to be flushed by a dog! It's been quite a while since my last blog post. Despite saying...