Lost & found american herring gull, cornwall

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30-minute birder Amanda Tuke sees the benefits of being distracted by birds at home, and on the coast

Peek over the parapet of a bridge just as daylight bleeds into dusk, gazing down through the clear layers of a shallow river or chalk stream, and you may glimpse the shadowy, serpentine form of an eel

Ghostly white forms drifted like white handkerchiefs on the brisk night breeze, dipping, rising, flapping, turning and tumbling over an inky black ocean. My small sailing boat rocked gently on the wav

It’s a part of Iceland that’s off the tourist trail, but it’s brilliant for birding, writes Vanessa Wright

Grey Phalarope, Pelagic (Scilly), 31 August RICHARD STONIER ...