August can be a good month in Northumberland, and especially in a local patch context where its not just rare birds that get the pulse going...

I haven't done a patch birding update since May, so here goes so far... After the excitement of Baikal Teal and Baillons Crake in the ...

Every morning before work I have a bit of a routine to follow, as do most of us. Mine involves getting up, coffee, dog walk #1, shower, brea...

The Howick - Craster Patch. Is there anyone out there? I'll rephrase that. Just because I haven't had a comment since about Augu...

Its been a while since I did a full on local patch type post so Saturday and today were spent doing just that, with maybe a step just a frac...

I mentioned earlier that this year I am doing some local patching on a different slant. I have cut down the patch size to around 0.75 km2 . ...

After last nights meagre offerings of the pelagic kind, the wind got up overnight, so, I set the alarm to get me up early so I could catch a...

After the rain all day on Friday I was keen to see if there were any migrants around, on both patches. The Farnes and Holy Island between th...