Hot on the heals of last month's patch tick (Night Heron), along came another on Saturday evening. Yellow-legged Gull - a spanking adult...

The white-winged black tern found at East Chevington yesterday evening finally made its way down to Druridge Pools this afternoon.  An adult...

Midsummer night, the summer solstice, everything must've been aligned and luck was on my side. A beautiful evening, the wind had dropped...

The forecast didn't look too promising for this weekend and I felt like autumn was slipping away without a final finale. However, on Thu...

Several strokes of luck led to a full-fat patch tick today  -   Pallas's leaf warbler Firstly  - I decided to take today off work today ...

 After a walk up to north end of the patch and back on Friday after work, I did a bit of an evening seawatch , until it was nearly dusk.  It...

It's that time of year again - birding is quiet and the macro lens comes out instead of the 400mm. I've managed to find three new ho...