by Dominic | Apr 7, 2020 | News, Trip Reports
This March I was fortunate to visit the Republic of Honduras as a guest of the government Tourist Board, sampling the amazing birdlife. Whatever you might have heard of the country, it is certainly a diversity hotspot. We saw just under 250 species of birds,...
by Dominic | Jan 24, 2020 | News, Trip Reports
Winter Birding along the “Diamond Route”, Honshu, Japan This was no ordinary trip to Japan. Normally, ecotourists visiting in winter go to Hokkaido, the northernmost island in the archipelago, for Cranes and Sea Eagles, or to Arasaki in Kyushu (the...
by Dominic | Sep 19, 2018 | News, Trip Reports
I have had the pleasure of doing many overseas trips in the last few years, the details of which have appeared in various publications. Here is the first of a whole series about to come on this website. Malawi isn’t the most famous of African birding destinations....
by Dominic | Jul 2, 2017 | Nature Writing, News, Trip Reports
Here’s something a little different from your usual bird reports… I have taken my son Samuel up Snowdon a couple of times so, with the spring half term approaching this year, we decided it was time to launch on assault on the other peaks that make up the...
by Dominic | Apr 17, 2017 | News, Trip Reports
This year I was fortunate enough to take part in the annual Champions of the Flyway international Bird Race in Israel. 34 teams from around the world assembled to compete in a 24-hour Bird Race on Tuesday 28th March, seeing who could see and hear the most species in a...
by Dominic | Dec 20, 2014 | Nature Writing, Trip Reports
THE PERFECT SWARM Bat-catching on an English autumn night There are many joys to mammal-watching, but one is undoubtedly a tendency to do peculiar things. Take visiting a cave on a September dusk and placing long nets outside it, and then waiting, chatting in the...
