Your birding month

October is many birders’ favourite time of the year. The potential is massive! Anything can and will turn up. However, here are five birds which will certainly be about and should be ‘gettable’ (with a bit of luck and skill) this month.

It’s just a variation on Southern Grey Shrike, isn’t it? Well, there’s a bit more to it than that, writes David Lindo

The best rare birds seen all around Britain in August

Getting to know these clever, creative and handsome birds

SET A TARGET OF SEEING 200 BIRDS IN ONE YEAR!

The geography of Batumi, Georgia, makes it one of the great destinations for observing mass migration of raptors, writes Mike Weedon