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I went on another attempt to Thornham Harbour yesterday in an attempt to see some twite - nice day of birding, but I didn't find any interesting finch flocks until the sun was starting to set, hence bad grainy photographs. A local gentleman did mention there were twite there, but though I did...

Morning I dropped over to Thornham Harbour in Norfolk yesterday to try and see some Twite, but the light wasn't great so didn't get any views I was happy with in the field, but a couple of maybes, so thought I'd get some thoughts? Also had a hawk turn up - I assume a sparrowhawk as it always...

Back in July I was in Cornwall and was did quite a few mornings on Trevose Head trying to seawatch for skuas and rarer shearwaters. The winds were fairly decent, and on some days I had some fairly ludicrous numbers of manxes, but didn't really pick out much at the time, despite them definitely...

On Monday I was walking from Birchington-on-Sea to Herne Bay and trying to pick up anything interesting out at sea, and this bird was a bit puzzling. I'd mostly seen the regular gull species and a smattering of gannets, but this bird passed on by late on. It was very dark, not juvenile gannety...

This is really just a case of double checking my work - saw these two at different points of the end of last week around Trevose Head in Cornwall. I'm pretty sure they are both familiar species to me (willow warbler and sanderling respectively) but as they seemed to be in different plumages than...

Decided to give Welbeck another go for raptors, and while again nothing came close enough to ID beyond Red Kite or Common Buzzard, a few very distant but potentially interesting raptors did appear. I do appreciate that these are very shabby photos, and may not all be identifiable. But thanks...

Finally got round to heading to Welbeck Raptor Viewpoint today and after watching lots of common buzzards for the majority of the trip, had two very interesting birds turn up in the last hour before I had to leave. 1) This bird circled in at quite a distance, but was very slight feeling...

Another Pond Heron sp. from Prek Toal February, and I appreciate the answer may well again be "you can't really tell". Looking through at this one though, it seems to have extensive pale buff sections on the face which would be streaked or going red in a non-breeding Chinese PH and would fit...

So I don't really think there is a right answer to this, so this is just seeing what other people make of this particular conundrum and where exactly the lines lie: (Note, this is not about a bird in this case, but the theory would still apply so putting it in this section where more people...

Over the last few weeks I've been pondering doing a long weekend trip a little later in the year to try and clear up a bunch of the remaining species I need in the UK, probably by bike and rail to take advantage of me having my railcard back for one last year. The eventual headliner would be...

Just a random little thought I was having the other day; what species have people seen in the most countries? Since I've been birding as an adult, I've visited 7 countries for long enough to do birding. Out of those, I think: Barn Swallow, Feral Pigeon, Little Egret, Grey Heron and Great White...

Just done a last pass on my photos for my trip, and a few extra shots came up that I wanted to see if could be identified. Thanks in advance for any help! 1: Three adjutants from Prek Toal in Cambodia - I'm assuming all lesser but I'm struggling to find out what the best identifiers for...

As an aside from what was a fairly heavily birdy trip, did stumble on some bats on my recent visit to Cambodia - these little guys were inside Angkor Wat itself and I was wondering if they can be plausibly identified? Thanks for any help!

Over this last year I've been trying to put together a big trip for my 30th birthday; at various times it ended up being targeted at Chile, India, the US and Georgia but essentially things ended up not coming together in time to actually do it, but eventually we managed to force this trip...

If people really love storks, I cannot highly recommend Prek Toal enough, we literally saw thousands of them the morning we are there. The distinct downside of this from a birders perspective is when the sky is filled with large birds, you can only look at so many at once and so on the day we...

I was just reading up on Oriental Honey Buzzard a bit following my trip to Singapore, and just realised I didn't feel 100% confident in my ID of one, so just thought I'd get it checked out. I was this individual over Bishan park, and just seems to be a bit more slender winged and of a darker...

Just finished a second pass through my photos and picked up a lot fewer missed extras than usual. Just the three (including two in one photo), plus two further pictures from the Singapore trip that bookended it. Thanks again in advance for any help! 1 - Florican Grasslands, Cambodia: A prinia...

This was my big dedicated guided bird-day and saw tons of new lifers, the issue however has become that they were coming so thick and fast at times that a bunch of the smaller, browner things particularly just haven't stuck with me ID wise. 1. I believe I was told this was a Plain Prinia 2. I...

Had a really great day around Prek Toal, and the majority of species there are big, charismatic and very easy to identify due to sheer scale. I did pick up a few smaller ones though too: 1: Another generic looking brown bird - bulbul of some sort? 2: A small bittern - I think yellow? 3: A...

I also got a small selection of birds around Siem Reap where we were staying. Most were fairly obviously, but a few less so: 1. A warbler seen from my hotel window 2. A different warbler seen from my hotel window. 3. A rather generic looking brown bird in a small grassy waste area outside my...