Could it be Spring? It felt like it this afternoon but down on the patch first thing it was a cold and frosty start. -1 degrees C but hard...

On Saturday I had the opportunity to share my local patch with a group from the Natural History Society of Northumbria . This is the second ...

It's been a bit wintery this week. I managed a midweek excursion to the patch on Wednesday (one benefit of working at home), frosty gr...

The weather wasn't suitable for ringing at the weekend, which is probably just as well as the bushes seemed to be devoid of birds. It lo...

I've been down to the patch a couple of times post. No photos though, it's just been too dull. I had a nice dusk visit on 20th, it...

Yesterday I spent pretty-much all of the daylight hours on the patch and what splendid daylight hours they were. Warm and sunny with light v...

Summer birding can be at a bit slow at Druridge, both in terms of birds and birders, with most of the 'regulars' off hunting butterf...

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...

After yesterdays three falcon day, one of the first birds I saw at Druridge today was a juvenile peregrine , falcon number four of the weeke...

Back on the patch today for the first time this year. Birding on new years days is never really an option for me and with the Toon away to...

I was so pleased to get out and go birding today, having fought my way to work and back every day and stuck at home all last weekend it was ...

This post could equally have been called 'Balearic beauty' I've been seawatching, I left it a bit late, not arriving at at Dru...