There's been no updates from the patch lately because I've been to Hungary. We went for a short winter birding trip and a quick mo...

Rained-off from my gardening duties this afternoon, I was sat at home preparing a pub quiz when a message appeared on the grapevine from Jon...

Last night, the forecast for today was rain - all day. So this morning, we didn't set an alarm, when we got up it wasn't raining a...

The wind has been out of the east for the last five days or so, and it is really coming from the east with an airflow coming from from Siber...

The weather forecast predicted light winds this morning, but it didn't mention thick fog, which Druridge Bay was cloaked in for most of ...

The weather forecast for last weekend went a bit wrong, Sunday was forecast to be quite windy from the west  whilst Saturday was due to be c...

Today was the last ringing session for the year at Druridge, with no leaves left on the trees, it was time to pack up and close down the sit...

I took Friday off work so I had a nice long weekend to do some ringing and birding on the patch. Thursday An early morning, pre-work vis...

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...

On my visit to Druridge yesterday I might have seen a first for the patch - an inland turnstone. I'm saying inland, it was in the fiel...

A long time ago, we were asked if we'd do a ringing demonstration at Druridge for ERIC volunteers. To be honest, we had forgotten all ab...

The last day of September, Autumn is slipping away into winter and my year-list for the patch is well down on what it should be. On Wednes...