This week I've mostly been seawatching. With the wind switching to the north for most of the week, I've been seawatching at every o...

We dodged the worst of the rain for our walk around the patch this morning, the wind has moved around to the north, force four or five at ti...

The forecast today was for rain from about 9am. For once it was bang-on.  Janet and I walked the length of the patch and got back tot he car...

Only one visit to the patch this weekend - Saturday was spent watching the Toon get three points, too little, too late I fear. So today wa...

Well my 2014 patch list got to off to a a start today with some good species for January amongst the common stuff. We did some coppicing, ...

I checked RBA at lunchtime and before leaving my office tonight and there were some pretty impressive seawatching totals from the regular ea...

Here's a quick catch-up from a longer than usual bank holiday weekend (I had today off work). I managed a few visits to the patch over t...

An abandoned point-to-point meeting at Alnwick meant that I got to spend the afternoon at Druridge rather than spending my money with the bo...

I find birding the patch at this time of year hard work.- Once the initial flurry of year ticks is over in the first couple of weeks of Janu...

We had a pre-work ringing session this morning, a 4.30 start for seven birds.....time well spent? Well it was to a see a truck turn up and...