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Last week I had occasion to visit Maidstone Cemetery and couldn’t help but notice that it might be interesting to take a walk in different ...

There has long been an inexcusable omission from my British list; Bohemian Waxwing . My individual country lists are not usually very impor...

Something was missing. I couldn’t put my finger on it straight away, but something was different. It took a while, but then it suddenly occ...

My son has taken up squash and was attending a coaching day at a club close to the estuary. It seemed foolish, nay environmentally irrespon...

Keeping kids entertained during the Easter break had driven me crazy by mid- afternoon and I escaped while they weren’t looking and took th...

I have recently been harbouring a desire to see Adders, Vipera berus , the UK’s only venomous snake. After a couple of days of fruitless se...

This is a cynical attempt to add a few species to my year list on 10,000 Birds . I have joined some of the beat writers and undertaken to m...

As a grand spectacle of landscape design and commemorative architecture, the cemetery at Margate cannot rival the wonderful Mount Auburn o...

In a perfect world there would be enough time in the day to write up the posts from Singapore and Australia as well as going for a walk t...

A Bittern had been reported at Leybourne Lakes which is within very easy reach of my home, so I made a couple of attempts to locate it. Th...