Gnome's Birding Diary

I would not have expected to be making yet another national bird sortie so soon after the last one but something as tantalising as a Scops O...

With it now being well into December, I had been thinking that that was it for the year as far as national birding was concerned. So when ne...

On Sunday, news dropped on the bird news services of a Great-tailed Grackle down in Hampshire. Now I consider Hants to be sufficiently close...

In my last blog post I wondered whether there might be yet another rarity in Oxfordshire before the year was out. That thought has turned ou...

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...