I have been an avid birder and twitcher for over 40 years, now an occasional twitcher, most of my time now is spent monitoring locally and leading walks to many different location we are lucky enough to have around us and to all parts of the UK.

Birds are my passion and have been since the age of 9, thanks to my late grandfather a well-known old skool birdwatcher from North London.

With many enjoyable days out, travelling home and abroad looking for new birds to add to my ever-expanding bird list. I restarted my lists in 2000 "as off saving the planet for 10yrs previously 🟦" with totals of 407 with Blue Rock Thrush at Kalithea Springs, Kalithea, Rhodes on 01/07/16 (also the happiest day of my life) on my world list and 337 with White-tailed Lapwing at RSPB Frampton Marsh, Lincolnshire on 25/03/22 of 633 BOU in the UK as of 24/09/23. This is the main reason for starting and running this website which started as my year list, adding my own Lincolnshire's bird listings hence the name South Lincs Archive then we expanded to Nottinghamshire then Leicestershire and Rutland regions for all birders to send their sightings to, so this site has gone from being my little black book to a very popular global website for archiving bird sightings in specific areas. 

I have been a former committee member for 3 different RSPB groups.  I have taken part in leading walks, running car trips, main spotter on coach trips and cruises, pointing out birds to RSPB members at numerous reserves all over the UK to helping out at events. I have always tried to push people into this great hobby as far back as I can remember, one of the only hobbies that is free to do, just being outdoors is a must for your health and wellbeing.

We are out most days and would love to show you around some of our fantastic places we have locally and beyond.

I am also a bird monitor for the BTO counting specific species that have declined dramatically over the years, and now on the red list, mainly looking for Marsh Tit down 78% and image below Spotted Flycatcher down 92% both between 1967-2018

I've been working alongside the RSPB for 24 years. Now spending most of my time leading walks and taking surveys on bird population and bird conservation. I am also a Wader Quest member which is everything wader related, even built a hide on a MOD site for the 168 Pioneer Regiment as their Legacy.

Thanks to Joe Stockil 👍👽

We also run a Nest Box Project in which we make, place and monitor mainly House & Tree Sparrow boxes in gardens, woods, farms and even a couple of golf courses all over the Lincolnshire area. We are very passionate about helping our Sparrow's and do all we can to help them out.

Sparrow images by Steve Nesbitt