When I see those doughty chaps and chapesses throwing themselves off the cliffs at Santa Pola, I always ask myself, how do you DO that when all that’s keeping you from a sticky end is a few square metres of canvas? The answer of course is the effect of both thermals (hot air rising) and
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Ever since I became interested in birds at a very early age, one species which I always wanted to see was the Golden Oriole. In the UK, they are an extremely scarce bird, and although I managed to visit the right sort of areas for them, I never found one. Fast forward to 2009, when
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The annual miracle which is spring migration is now well underway. The statistics are quite staggering, with billions of birds making the hazardous move from Africa northwards to their breeding grounds, many having to cross the vast wastes of the Sahara Desert on their way to Europe, and having crossed this obstacle it makes sense
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One of the things which puts some people off from taking a deep interest in birds is the plethora of LBJ’s (Little Brown Jobs) which seem to fill the identification books. Even experts are sometimes hard put to identify the various sparrows, warblers, larks and bunting species which cause some head-scratching when they are seen,
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