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Latest Updates
4/7/2009 Added June's diary page.
21/6/2009 Updated the Amphibians gallery to include 4 (possibly 5) new frog species including at least 2 unidentified frogs from Peru. If you can identify any of these, please email me.
20/6/2009 Updated the Pigeons & Parrots galleries to include new species and numerous previously unseen photos.
1/6/2009 I am in the process of a major overhaul of the invertebrate galleries to make them more educational. The new Hemiptera (True Bugs) galleries have now been uploaded. All the other orders will follow soon(ish).
1/6/2009 Added Northern Gannet and Northern Fulmar to the bird galleries and updated the following species: Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Linnet, Common Stonechat, Pied Avocet, Gadwall and Kittewake. All contain new photos found nowhere else on the site.
31/5/2009 Added May's diary page.
10/5/2009 Updated the Tyrant Flycatcher, Swallows, Gulls & Terns and Wrens & Thrushes galleries. Many new images and species added (mostly from the Peru trip).
5/5/2009 Added 4 new species (Cinnamon Teal, Torrent Duck, Crested Duck & Puna Teal) to the Duck gallery
4/5/2009 Added April's diary page.
3/5/2009 Updated the Pelicans, Boobies & Cormorants galleries. Many new images and species added (mostly from the Peru trip).
3/5/2009 Updated the Herons & Ibis galleries. New images and species added (mostly from the Peru trip).
26/4/2009 Updated the Landscapes galleries. Many new images added (Mostly to Scotland, Wales & South America).
26/4/2009 Added a Fireworks page to the Miscellaneous galleries.
4/4/2009 Added March's diary page.
19/3/2009 Updated the Raptors and Gambird, Hoatzin & Rails Galleries. Many new species added.
8/3/2009-15/3/2009 I've been updating some of the galleries this week. Have added new species and new images to the following galleries: Mammals; Amphibians; Reptiles; Shorebirds; Cuckoos & Owls; Hummingbirds & Trogons; Ovenbirds, Antbirds, Cotingas & Manakins; New World Warblers; Tanagers. The other galleries will be updated as soon as I have time.
5/3/2009 The final two pages (Machu Picchu and Lima) from the Peru trip report are now online. The complete report contains over 400 images!
26/2/2009 The Tambopata pages from the Peru trip report are now online. The remaining pages (Machu Picchu and Lima) will follow soon.
22/2/2009 The first half of the Peru trip report is now online. The rest of it will hopefully be uploaded before the end of the week...
6/2/2009 Due to personal tragedy this month, the publication of my Peru trip report has been delayed. It should, however, be online within the next couple of weeks. To keep you going until then, there are a few more photos from the trip in January's diary page.
2/1/2009 December's diary page contains a few randomly selected images from the many 1000's I took on my recent trip to southern Peru. A full trip report containing well over 100 photos will be posted soon! Hopefully, before the end of January...
20/11/2008 Added November's diary page. It is early this month since I am flying out on Monday for a 3-week trip exploring the coast, mountains and rainforests of southern Peru.
1/11/2008 Added October's diary page.
8/10/2008 Added September's diary page.
8/10/2008 Thanks to Kevin Caley for pointing out an error in my identification of a photo I had labeled Devilsbit Scabious in the June diary page. It is in fact Sheepsbit. Botany is not one of my strong points...
7/9/2008
Added August's diary page.
3/8/2008
Added some new species to the shorebirds gallery (Bar-tailed Godwit, Eurasian Curlew, and Whimbrel). Also added Black Guillemot and Red-billed Chough to the bird galleries, and updated the Beetles, Butterflies and Neuroptera (Lacewings) galleries to include some of the newer pictures I have taken in the last year.
3/8/2008
Added July's diary page. This time split into three parts: Ireland, Birds and Flowers & Insects
27/7/2008
A slight departure from my usual photographic subjects. I've uploaded a gallery of a few photos I took of the start of the Tall Ships Race that visited Liverpool on 18th-21st July 2008
10/7/2008
Added June's diary page, a bumper crop of photos split into two parts: Birds and Flowers & Insects
29/6/2008
Added another half-dozen species to the Shorebirds gallery.
22/6/2008
Added a few more species to the Shorebirds gallery.
11/6/2008
Added May's diary page.
26/5/2008
Added Ovenbirds, Tyrant Flycatchers, Pittas & New Zealand Wrens to the Bird Galleries
1/5/2008
I have been given the huge honour of having one of my Wallcreeper photos chosen to grace the cover of the passerine volume of Hadoram Shirihai and Lars Svensson's massive new work on bird identification "The Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds". More information on this very important book can be found on the A &C Black website.
1/5/2008
Uploaded April's diary page
30/4/2008
Uploaded March's diary page
1/3/2008
Uploaded diary pages for January and February
3/2/2008
The remainder of the passerine index pages have now been updated, and roughly 30 new species added.
27/1/2008
Updated the first 6 passerine index pages of the bird gallery to include thumbnails of each species. To these pages I've also added a few additional families and several new passerine species, as well as supplemental photos to many others. The rest of the passerine families will be updated soon.
19/1/2008
Changed the layout of the non-passerine index pages in the bird gallery to include small thumbnail images of each species. The passerine index pages will also be updated soon (hopefully by the end of next week).

Also added about 30 new species of non-passerine birds to the bird gallery and supplemental photos to many others.

12/1/2008
Added diary page for December
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