After returning from Japan I had around at month at home on Stewart Island, with just a couple trips guiding on Ulva Island. This is...

In April I completed my fifteenth and final year of forest bird call counts here on Stewart Island for SIRCET. The weather was kind, so I...

Back in 2023 I got a phone call from my mate Sav who is co-owner of Wrybill Birding Tours wondering if I would be keen on guiding in...

In November 2023 I headed away to lead my first of this season’s 21-day birding tour of NZ for Wrybill birding tours.  On the journey to...

New Zealand tours, twitching, Subantarctic Islands, Antarctica, Auckland to Yokohama and birding in Japan! Latest news … well most of...

It’s been a couple of months since my last instalment and quite a bit has happened. In brief: SIRCET bird call counts I’ve been to the...