For normal people, this is summer and will be until at least the August Bank Holiday. For Birdwatchers - it's Autumn. Migration has ...

What is going on with the weather this Summer? Even  the forecasters can't get a thing right. Last night, I checked all of my usual so...

Not much to report this week. A couple of short visits to the patch produced little of note other than some rather smart summer-plumaged san...

I'm a bit gutted. Druridge was 'hotching' with warblers today, I should have had the nets up for a ringing session but I didn...

The early bird catches the worm, so they say. Well I was at Druridge early this morning and it certainly paid off when a scan of the wader...

If I was a migrant wader, I would like the look of the Budge fields at the moment, the vegetation is a bit high, but they'll do. They...

It felt a bit autumnal down at the patch today. There had been a small arrival of warblers I think, there were a few willow warblers and ...

I took today off work and spent most of it on the patch. I started the day birding the sunny edge of the bushes, seeing lots of warblers...

I should have spent this weekend at a wedding do in London, so all three visits to the patch and a 'County-tick' at Alnmouth were al...

I am not sure who got the biggest shock, but I know who was the most embarrassed! I called at Druridge tonight on my way home from work, f...

Sunday evening.....my first visit to Druridge this weekend, bad form! Friday was too wet and I was too busy on Saturday so we had to go toni...