Gnome's Birding Diary

What a vintage year this is turning out to be for Oxon. Usually as a land-locked county about as far as one can get from the sea we have to ...

It's that time of year again when I have to take one of my offspring back to University somewhere. These days it's my son up to York...

I was just sitting in bed, unwinding after a busy day and idely scrolling on my phone when a message pinged in the Oxon birding WhatsApp cha...

Most birders with their finger anywhere remotely near the pulse of national birding news will be aware of the discovery last Sunday of a Zit...

Black Stork is a species that has been on my radar for quite a few years now. Unlike it's commoner White cousin, it's quite a hard b...

Norfolk Hawker, as you may guess from the name, is traditional associated with East Anglia and has up until now been confined to east Norfol...

This week, my twitching buddies PL & EU were planning a trip to Suffolk, organised by the Hardy Orchid Society, to see a rare Tongue Orc...