Well, I didn't expect to finish my WeBS count this morning by adding FOUR Temminck's Stints to it - but that's what happened! Jo...

With the wind of the northeast and rain overnight, today could have been mega or as the winds were only originating from the near continent ...

A quick post-work visit to the patch this evening to catch up with Black-necked Grebe that had been reported on Druridge Pool earlier in the...

Two things are usually guaranteed on New Years Day on the patch: 1) I will see a species that I didn't see in the previous year. Over ...

Today has been mostly wet. Once the rain eased after lunch, I popped down to the patch to do the monthly WeBS count. Nothing startling on ...

We only caught two storm petrels in a single session this summer, the weather getting the better of us.  One of them was already ringed (a c...

The weather forecasters got their predictions wrong for this weekend. Heavy rain from yesterday lunchtime (it rained at 4pm) which would las...

I should have spent this weekend at a wedding do in London, so all three visits to the patch and a 'County-tick' at Alnmouth were al...

With the toon at home yesterday and a belated birthday night out on Friday, I only managed one visit to the patch this weekend and that was ...