About Me
Born and brought up in Kent, I left in 1979 and my home, with Jill and son Steven, is now in Musselburgh, Scotland.
I began birdwatching back in 1968 with regular visits to north and east Kent sites. After university at Hull and Aberdeen to study geology (and birdwatch), I joined the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh in 1982, where I have worked ever since as a petroleum geologist. Jill and I married in 1989. A three-year work posting to Jordan in 1989-92 gave us the opportunity to explore this and neighbouring countries. Result – a book on Jordan’s birds published in 1995.
Back in Scotland I have close links with the SOC, as local recorder, then on Council and finally as President (2000-02). In 2002, helped set up a group of editors who spent the next five years writing and editing the third authoritative avifauna on the birds of Scotland.
Other interests include photography, family history research and computing (databases, websites etc).