Author Archives: Alan Gordon

After a three month hiatus in our birding trips, Helen and I made a very welcome visit to Blacktoft Sands today. It was a beautiful (if cold) January afternoon, with barely a cloud in the sky. On arrival we discovered … Continue reading →

It was a beautiful, sunny, late-Summer day today and I was lucky enough to be able to spend an hour at Old Moor this afternoon. With only an hour available to me, I had to choose between Green Lane and … Continue reading →

Helen and I were staying in Leeds last night and today we took the opportunity to visit Harewood, a few miles to the North of the city, in order to look for the Red Kites, for which the area is … Continue reading →

I visited Old Moor for the first time in a while today. There had been a favourable weather forecast and I hadn’t visited my ‘home’ reserve in several weeks, so today was finally the day. Unfortunately, the weather was a … Continue reading →

It’s a year to the day since Helen and I first visited Loch Garten in the Cairngorms National Park, so it was quite fitting that we should have returned there today. As last year, we were too late in the … Continue reading →

I’m up in Scotland again at the moment, and paid a short visit to the RSPB’s reserve at the Loch of Kinnordy this afternoon. Kinnordy is a fairly small reserve with just three hides. However, I’ve seen some really good … Continue reading →

Yet another new reserve today – the RSPB’s Middleton Lakes reserve near Tamworth in Staffordshire. Helen and I had been meaning to visit here for some time and today was the day it came to pass. It was late afternoon … Continue reading →

It was a brand new reserve for me today – Alkborough Flats in North Lincolnshire. I first heard of Alkborough about three years ago and have been meaning to visit there ever since. Well, today was the day when it … Continue reading →

It was a lovely, warm afternoon as I arrived at Blacktoft Sands on the Humber today. Blacktoft has long been one of my favourite birding locations, and I was excited to be there once again. Next to Old Moor, (my … Continue reading →

I went to Old Moor again today. It was warm but a bit cloudy as I walked around the reserve, and, as it was a Tuesday afternoon, it wasn’t too busy. I first went to the Bittern Hide, the source … Continue reading →