Over the last two decades I have driven hundreds of thousands of miles throughout the UK, Ireland, Europe and United States, all in search of new customers, new birds, or both. It has taken me to some great places, such as the below sea level Salton Sea in Southern California, the Texas Blackland Prairie, Rio Grande Valley and the central Florida wetlands in the USA. I have visited Honey Buzzard migration hotspot Falsterbo in Sweden, the superb Waddensee island of Texel and the wild Atlantic Way in the far west of Ireland, each of them special in their own way,…