Everyday is a schoolday, well today was certainly a schoolday for me.  Picture the scene... I arrive early at Druridge, the sun has just com...

There's been no updates for while because I've been west, way west, in fact at one point as far west as you can get in mainland Brit...

Friday off work meant a long weekend for me, I put my day off to good use and put some nets up. It was really calm and a thick sea-fret wa...

This weekend was our village show, so yesterday was mostly spent 'buffing my veg' and baking scones and cakes. I was like a cross be...

My decision to take a day off work after a look a the weather forecast paid off today. No patch-ticks, but a yellow-browed warbler and a big...

A couple of hours birding the bushes at Druridge tonight from 1800. A text message told me of a whinchat near the entrance, I soon found it...

The first swift of the year is a notable date in any patch-workers notebook, as the last of the migrant breeders to arrive it marks a bit ...

I was at Druridge at first light this morning, it was murky with intermittent showers and force 4 SE wind. I bashed the bushes for a couple ...

When the rain and very strong SE winds that lashed the Northumberland Coast overnight suddenly abated at lunch time and the sun came out, an...

This weekend has been taken up with showing my vegetables.... in public.... again.....the legendary 'Tute Show'. We did OK, two firs...