It's felt more like October than August this week, the cloud, got or mizzle has hardly lifted and neither has the temperature. Sadly, de...

They came from the north... No, not the birds, the birdwatchers. I gave a talk about my Druridge patch to the north Northumberland Bird Cl...

I had a well-earned day of flexi-leave today and as the weather forecast looked good, I decided to put some nets up at Druridge. Despite con...

Well...where to start? What a weekend  - on so many levels. It all started on Friday when I was just to about to get on the train at Wid...

This weekend brought a change in the weather,  something more resembling the spring-like conditions we should be expecting. That-said there ...

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...

Time on the patch was limited this weekend due the Toon kicking off at 12.45 yesterday. This meant two things; 1) Limited birding ti...

A nice, early, 5.30 start at Druridge for a territory mapping visit before work. Nice to see the back of the awful wind for a while, still q...

A species that has been on and off my Druridge list before is now firmly on it. No. 223 White Stork! This afternoon, I had been to the Bud...