Big birds of history. Actually the biggest birds. Ever. (If you don't count dinosaurs). Let me start again. The biggest birds than humans ever encountered. Mostly in history. Because then we killed them all. Leaving just ostriches and stuff. (Which can still be quite scary.) Okay, one more go. On my holidays, I went to the Norwich Castle Museum. In the Natural History section they have an elephant bird leg bone. I have elephant bird leg bones before. Yet somehow when they are

A friend has been trying to photograph water rail at the Great Fen. Not an easy task. Even the RSPB notes that they are difficult to see in breeding plumage. They do also mention that they are highly secretive. Shockingly, as a non-twitcher (and even non-birdwatcher really) I have seen one. And even photographed it - though finding the image is proving as difficult as the species itself. I say shockingly as I really can't emphasise enough how it is luck rather than skill in s