With the wind howling and light mizzle falling at home this morning, it would have been very easy to say "Sod it", not go down to ...

The end of another year on the patch approaches. I don't know why we birders concentrate on our 'year lists' as much as we do. I...

As the weather has been so awful today and any attempt at birding would have been pointless, I spent my day writing-up the second part of ou...

Today was WeBS count day and it through up a couple of surprises. The first surprise was a black-tailed godwit amongst the curlews, a furt...

At lunchtime today , I was sat in the Oddie hide with Graeme Bowman and Les Robson contemplating heading home to watch the Newcastle match a...

Having only added one new species to patch list in November and the Patchwork Challenge coastal North mini-league hotting up at the to...

I spent today off the patch, not even on the mainland - I was marooned on Coquet Island. If you've read this rubbish since I started w...