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...

Yesterday was supposed to be 'Blue Monday' - the gloomiest day of the year. Well, it was certainly gloomy when I arrived on the patc...

I've been off work since 23rd for the festivities, but have hardly managed any time on the patch. A walk on the beach in a howling gale ...

Autumn has started quietly on the patch. On Wednesday I put some nets up for a ringing session. I caught a mixture of adult and juvenile war...

Another year on the patch begineth..... I tried to start my year-list yesterday but a heavy sleet shower had me heading for home and hot s...

Today was count day and there was lots to count. The Budge fields were lifting with birds. Lapwing were by far and away the most numerous sp...

So, which is scarcer, avocet or spoonbill? Well at Druridge Pools the answer is avocet. Avocets seem to prefer bare ground, like shingle o...

The skies darkened over Druridge Farm, not a rain cloud which you would expect in February, but a cloud of geese. a cloud of geese P...

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 stroke of pure luck today scored me a new bird for the patch  - HONEY BUZZARD ! Here's the tale... I was at work and had to drive...

An evening visit to Druridge for an hour produced two long-awaited year ticks, both from a short seawatch. The first was a single turnstone ...

No visit to Druridge today. I was leading a guided walk along the Northumberland Coast Path for work from Warkworth to Craster, deep in to B...