Peter Moore's Wildlife Blog

One of the highlights of last week on the Isles of Scilly was this Red-throated Diver which spent a few days snorkelling in the surf just ya...

...and geese, not to mention swans, on the Isles of Scilly last week. Not bad enough to stop us getting out every day though. The hides at P...

Even during a quiet week for rare birds on the Isles of Scilly - and last week was by no means a classic - it's a place where you seem t...

October half-term on the Isles of Scilly tends to give a slightly warped impression of the whole business of rarity. Last week, for instance...

...as long as you tick me, that's alright' (with apologies to Amen Corner or whoever wrote that lyric first). Thus can be summarised...

One of the small comforts of my job is a flexi-time system which makes the odd twitch possible without eating into precious family holidays....

...is apparently not a 9 hour drive to Scotland but a walk to my local riverbank. I was getting so desperate for an October tick that I seri...