I was on holiday in northern Scotland for the first two weeks of June and it's taken me a while to find the time to write a blog post. T...

Spring is coming to Druridge, but slowly. A prolonged spell of wintery weather with very cold, frosty nights and cold but dry days seems to ...

Lockdown continues and March marches on towards April. I should've been on holiday in Fife this week, we had a cottage booked in Pittenw...

The wind had gone back into the west and with it some of the excitement of birding the patch, when there's a hint of an easterly at this...

The weather this week can best be described as 'unseasonable'. Monday dawned nicely with some sunshine (remember that?) but it didn...

With a band of rain passing through overnight and a brisk south-easterly I thought that this morning had potential for a few migrant passeri...

I was back on the patch yesterday to do a belated WeBS count after returning from a birding trip to the Greek island of Lesvos in the early ...

I've bit a bit of an absentee from the patch recently. With birding limited to weekends and weekends taken up with football and chores i...