Today was WeBS count day, but I didn't manage a particularly early start on the patch. There was plenty to count on the Budge fields ...

After a look around the plantation and bushes by the entrance to Druridge, having seen a chiffchaff, great-spotted woodpecker, goldcrests an...

I had a quick pre-work visit to Druridge yesterday morning and spent an hour in the plantation. Highlight was a pied flycatcher , quite late...

The word unprecedented is a very overused word in my opinion, especially in the popular press, by politicians and corporate bollock-speak. S...

We put some nets up on Saturday morning but ringing was very slow and by midday we hadn't reached double figures. We caught our first ...

At last, some signs of spring at Druridge. First and most important - my first 'proper' migrant - a chiffchaff . It wasn't chi...

I managed two visits to the patch this weekend Saturday Saturday's highlights were out to sea. An afternoon visit once the worst of ...

We decided to ring at Lynemouth sewage works this morning, a bad idea. All of the weekends migrants seemed to have moved through, we only ca...

The last day of September, Autumn is slipping away into winter and my year-list for the patch is well down on what it should be. On Wednes...

I've managed two visits to the patch over the weekend. Incredibly we've not ringed at Druridge this year yet, the late-start of summ...

Bank Holiday weekend started early for me as I took Friday off work. We ringed at Lynemouth Sewage Works in the morning catching about 30 ne...

A cold and frosty morning at Druridge, it was bright and sunny though. I quite like cold and sunny winter days. As I predicted, when chatt...

January 1st I very rarely do any birding on New Years Day. Usually because of a severe hang-over or football or both. This New Years Day w...

There was a Yank on Druridge Pools this afternoon, not quite the one I wanted though. It looks as though the greater yellowlegs has moved no...

A day offuv work today, the weather forecasts earlier in the week looked promising for some migrant action on the North-East Coast, but it t...

Three things make me think it might be summer. 1) I saw my first swallows at Druridge today 2) Racing pigeons - loads of them passing thr...

I had a day offuv work today, I had two chores to do at Druridge, moving some poles around our ringing site and picking some sloes for the s...

Eleven and a half hours! That's how long I spent at Druridge today - unhealthy obsession? - probably! No bluetails for us, we had a fe...

We were down at Druridge before dawn this morning, but a soon as the nets were up they had to come back down as the rain set in and it looks...

After yesterdays fall of birds, I was itching to get back down to Druridge, so at first light I was on the patch, only for a couple of hours...