Well, I didn't expect to finish my WeBS count this morning by adding FOUR Temminck's Stints to it - but that's what happened! Jo...

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 new species for the patch this afternoon and quite unexpected  - Raven! The circumstances were quite fortuitous. I was on the patch for w...

Tradition dictates that on my first visit to the patch of the year, I'll find a species that I hadn't seen on the patch in the previ...

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

The plan this morning was to put some low nets up in the dunes to the north of the turning circle to catch and ring twite. Light rain at fir...

 I was sat at my desk, in my loft-office at home, yesterday afternoon, the velux windows were open as it was mild and by 4pm I could hear re...