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

Firstly, apologies for the lack of blog updates. There just aren't enough hours in the day and when it is still light in the evenings I ...

Well it looks as though it might be sometime before I get back onto the patch. With the Covid-19 pandemic forcing the country into lockdown ...

I finally got to see the red-backed shrike that has been Druridge at 8.15 tonight after it gave me the run-around this afternoon. It had bee...

We were ringing birds at Druridge this morning.  It was the same day as the North-East Skinny Dip at the Country Park and we had the dippers...

It's been a while since my last blog post. My excuse for this tardiness was a two-week trip to Finland and Norway and an ailing computer...

I had a short wander around the patch yesterday afternoon. I walked back along the beach and made a diversion through the plantation. My p...

Today was the last ringing session for the year at Druridge, with no leaves left on the trees, it was time to pack up and close down the sit...