The forecast didn't look too promising for this weekend and I felt like autumn was slipping away without a final finale. However, on Thu...

We arrived back from a week away in Cornwall (and a brief visit to the Somerset Levels) yesterday evening, twitching the long-staying belted...

A goose for Christmas? Why not? Two days late - but that doesn't matter. With my patch year-list perilously close to 180, Janet and I se...

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...

I was seawatching from the dunes this morning when a message came through on the Whatsapp group to say that Tariq Farooqi was watching one, ...

I'd been down to the patch for a couple of hours this morning before heading home via the Country Barn at Widdrington for a pasty. As I ...

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...

As regular readers of this drivel/quality writing will know, I rarely get out birding on New years Day, in fact I don't normally surface...

I left it a bit late to squeeze another patch tick in this year but a long-billed dowitcher flying around the patch before heading back to i...