It's been really cold this week, with snow and ice dominating and a brisk easterly through to southerly wind making feel even colder. Co...

Tradition dictates that on the 1st January each year (or my first visit to the patch) I see a species that I didn't see in the previous ...

A goose for Christmas? Why not? Two days late - but that doesn't matter. With my patch year-list perilously close to 180, Janet and I se...

 As October slips into November, Autumn slips into winter and we all slip back into Coronavirus lockdown the chance of finding an autumnal p...

It's been a bit wintery this week. I managed a midweek excursion to the patch on Wednesday (one benefit of working at home), frosty gr...

I've been down to the patch a couple of times post. No photos though, it's just been too dull. I had a nice dusk visit on 20th, it...

Today's  sunny spells, although brief, were very welcome after four days of dreichness. And in the sunshine, it felt quite warm. I too...

The northerly blow during the middle of last week brought some seabird action. I was at work on the Wednesday, so missed the main action, bu...

So that was October.... It flew by - and now we're into November. Autumn is running out. I've been scanning the pressure charts al...

It was still blowing a hooley today and as a result everything seemed to be a bit flighty at Druridge. I had a walk up to the Preceptory, ...

It's nearly the end of January, but for me, a new year started on the patch today. I've been to Thailand on birding holiday since De...

I took today off work on the strength of the weather forecast, hoping for a good fall of birds. There was fall, but it was pretty-much limit...

My decision to take a day off work after a look a the weather forecast paid off today. No patch-ticks, but a yellow-browed warbler and a big...

I'm back.... I've been to Jordan...where there were many, many, beiards (as the Jordanians told us constantly - they were right and...

Not much snow on the land today, but as I slid my way to Druridge today it was certainly snowing offshore from Cresswell. Dramatic snow ...