We would like to wish everyone who visits our blog a happy and peaceful Christmas and a bird-filled 2008, particularly ourselves!  We are about to set off on The Biggest Twitch, our world record breaking attempt to record more bird species in a single calendar year (2008) than has ever been achieved before!  Only a week to go before the Big Day on 1st January.  Are we ready?  Err, no!  Still so much to do and now so little time but we have got our trusty Swarovski binoculars, passports and a rather battered credit card so bring it on! 

We fly out of the UK on 28th December for Tucson, Arizona USA where we meet up with our good friend and ace birder Moez Ali.  We then have a couple of days to do a recce and sort out a route for day 1 and of course pin down some great birds.  We can't wait to get birding!  We'll post news of our first day of The Biggest Twitch as soon as possible.  However, we will be in the field until late so given time zone differences, it may well be late, well after European birders have put their binoculars to bed!

If you would like more background information on The Biggest Twitch, log on to our website www.thebiggesttwitch.com

Alan and Ruth