Category Archives: Latest GOB Articles

Doing the right thing… This article appeared in Bird Art & Photography Why isn’t doing the right thing easy? I am a friend to all things feathered; I feed fistfuls of the finest food (courtesy of Jacobi Jayne™) to every … Continue reading →

The Culling Fields  This article appeared in Bird Art & Photography Years ago, as I sat with my back against a pine tree, gazing at a crystal clear lake in the Serbian mountains, I heard scratching from the tree next … Continue reading →

For Birds, For People, for goodness sake! This article appeared in Bird Art & Photography I hold these things to be self-evident – to conserve wild birds and wild places the whole population must learn to love them. If you … Continue reading →

A Bird for Two Farthings [This one never made the magazine – as a very similar article was published that month in a rival magazine…] “When I were a lad we didn’t ‘ave two ‘a’pennies to rub together, and now … Continue reading →

Coming of Age  This article first appeared in Birds Illustrated Dear readers, until today I have, I confess, been misleading you all! Today I can reveal that I have become what I always purported to be! I’ve always been grumpy, … Continue reading →

How to be a super-cool birder…  This article first appeared in Birds Illustrated How can you become a super cool birder? The short answer, of course, is you can’t. I mean have you seen what we wear? Some of us … Continue reading →

Bank Balances or Bank Swallows?  This article first appeared in Birds Illustrated Worried by the growing urban sprawl, more and more people are buying a few acres of woodland to keep for no other reason than that they want to … Continue reading →

A Great Man’s Passing This article first appeared in Birds Illustrated Do you wonder from where each generation draws its birding inspiration? While many people seem to take up birding in middle or even later life and regret the opportunities … Continue reading →

Bee-eaters over the Jacuzzi  This article first appeared in Birds Illustrated Several weeks ago I was lounging in a Jacuzzi, cold beer in hand, staring into a cloudless sky watching hawking bee-eaters. Each ‘chup’ announced another colourful acrobat joining the … Continue reading →

Confidence Mon Brave!  This article first appeared in Birds Illustrated It has long been a source of extreme angst and ire to me that ugly SOBs of the ‘treat ‘em mean, keep ‘em keen’ persuasion get the good looking, good … Continue reading →