After a walk up to north end of the patch and back on Friday after work, I did a bit of an evening seawatch , until it was nearly dusk.  It...

Storm Arwen well and truly lashed the Northumberland coast on Friday night into Saturday morning. A northerly wind reaching nearly 160 kph c...

Last week I was mostly seawatching . Well, since then, the wind has remained out of the north and I've continued to be 'mostly seawa...

 This week I've mostly been seawatching. With the wind switching to the north for most of the week, I've been seawatching at every o...

Tradition dictates that on the 1st January each year (or my first visit to the patch) I see a species that I didn't see in the previous ...

Apologies for the lack of posts recently, it's not that I've not been to the patch, I've been most days, there just hasn't b...

The last of the Blackbirds from the huge invasion earlier in the month are hanging on, making their way through the remaining Hawthorn berri...

The forecast today was for rain from about 9am. For once it was bang-on.  Janet and I walked the length of the patch and got back tot he car...