Much to my own disgust - I ticked and ran today... John Todd found a White-rumped Sandpiper on the Budge fields mid-morning, I was at work ...

Meadow Pipits don't eat fish - right? yes this is right Wrong. I was out for a walk at Druridge this morning and by the bridge over ...

I squeezed a quick hours walk around the patch before work this morning, just up to the turning circle and south as far as the Budge screen ...

The pace of migration and birding as tailed-off a little bit since last weekend when easterly winds brought some interesting passerines onto...

Yes, I know that if you count the number of days, February is the shortest month. But for the patch watcher it always feels like a long mont...

2016 has been a record-breaking year on the patch - I have seen more species on  the patch in 2016 than any previous year. Sundays hen har...

I've got some really interesting news of a returning blackcap, but first a round-up of the weekend on the patch. On Friday evening the...

These long, light nights leave little time for updating my blog, so I apologise for the lack of activity lately. I have also discovered an...

There has been no blog updates for a while as I have been in Spain for a week. We started in Valencia and headed down in to Castilla-La Manc...