Fraser's Birding Blog

Sunday 9 October and news came in of a Siberian Accentor ( Prunella montanella )  on Shetland – the first record for Britain. This is not a...

I've uploaded a trip report from Spain in April.  www.fssbirding.org.uk/costadelaluz2016trip.htm This was another university field c...

March, the transition between winter and spring…..depending on the weather. March saw just four additions to bring my personal total to 107...

Being a fairly ‘green’ birder, mainly cycling and using public transport, I normally only travel long distances for one particular bir...

I've uploaded an annotated list for January's trip to the Florida  Keys  http://www.fssbirding.org.uk/floridatrip2016.htm Thi...

As expected after the initial rush of January to see all the regular wintering species, locate the scarcer visitors, and luck-in on the res...

So, I’m doing a Big Year! Ok, so not like in the movie but a year long list at RSPB Rainham Marshes. As well as my own personal year list fo...

Many birders keep lists, some more prosaic than others. A local patch list or British list are among the most popular. For others, the garde...

A pencil drawing of Common Goldeneye ( Bucephala clangula ) at Hogganfield Lock. This loch in Glasgow is close to the city centre but attrac...

Pencil drawing of dancing Eurasian Cranes ( Grus grus ) at Hornborgasjön in Sweden. Lake Hornborga is the main spring staging site in Swede...

A pencil drawing of the Short-eared Owls ( Asio flammeus ) at Rainham Marshes. Large numbers of these messenger birds have arrived in the Br...

Grey Herons (Ardea cinerea) photographed through autumn leaves. No image on this blog or related sites may be used, copied, or re-poste...

I've uploaded a trip report  from my recent field work in Florida Keys (8-15 September) which was based around Summerland and Cudjoe Key...

Earlier this month my job took me back took to Florida Keys. On our last day of field work we decided to have a break and head out to the Dr...

At the beginning of July we moved out of London and just into Essex. We’re living right next to Rainham Marshes RSPB reserve now, our living...

The 2012 edition of the Ayrshire Bird Report is now available priced at £5.00. Essential reading for anyone visiting the county, it contains...

Earlier this month I returned from my thirteenth trip on an undergraduate university field course to the Field Studies Council's Kindrog...

Here are a couple of new ambient tracks I've created recently, routing my synths through a Strymon Big Sky. Keeping it bird-themed, I...

I've uploaded a birding trip report to the main website for the area around the small town of Zahara de los Atunes, situated on the Co...

A pencil drawing from the weekend of a Yellow-crowned Night Heron ( Nyctanassa violacea ). This was based on a photograph taken in the mangr...

Here is a 10 minutes recording of an urban Blackbird ( Turdus merula ) singing from an internal garden courtyard, with four walls on either ...

Well, birding activity has been low since the turn of the year due to the arrival of a new hatchling in the family. This weekend I found som...

Grey Herons seem to exhibit an endless amount of poses which makes them an inexhaustible subject. I've been photographing these birds si...