Wanstead Birder

Blogging is not going well. Quantity is well down, but more worryingly so is quality. All I seem to be able to dredge up is "I saw this...

Reed Warbler, Wicken Fen I've just returned to work after a week off. The plan was to relentlessly twitch an incredible run of rarities ...

I had a mooch around the Park yesterday, my week off has ended up being something of a damp squib versus my admittedly lofty aspirations. I...

The smart Black-necked Grebe is still here over a week later, bobbing about very incongruously on Alexandra Lake. I dashed to see if it was...

I have not seen very many Wheatears this "season" and photographed only a handful. Some swine put up a fence and it is now impossi...

I got a proper soaking this morning for very little reward. Hopes of Waders , Terns and southern overshoots went unfulfilled, and my waterpr...

Good news - the Swan fence has been dramatically improved, the whole of the southern section now has webbing, albeit that the northern half ...