Part I is on the moth blog, link on the right... Last week was spent on holiday on the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides. Despite having ...

This morning was nice and sunny with some cloud, a blessed relief after yesterdays effort. JWR and myself headed off west to do his WeBs cou...

...was this. During the Napoleonic War legend has it that a monkey was washed ashore at Hartlepool after a shipwreck. He was mistaken as ...

I've just taken a wander with Bunty along the coast path. The rain has stopped and although its dull, it feels relatively calm and mild....

A rare thing on the Northumberland coast these days, the Cuckoo . Last year I dont think I had one on the OFFH list, but one turned up last ...

...Carlisle. If its good enough for Lady Gaga, it'll do for us. The weather forecast today said it was going to be a hot'un, so wi...

While the grapevine buzzes with Terek Sandpiper and Great White Egrets, we took a detour this morning to check an old railway line near Pow...

Well not really, what I mean is, the Tree Sparrow's fledglings were on the garden wall when I came in from work. There were two of them...

But nothing to write home about. Firstly this morning 2 Sandwich Terns flew south along the coast path just offshore. I haven't done an...

Out to Branton Pits this morning with John doing the WeBs count. All was generally quiet but Common Sandpiper and Little Ringed Plover were ...

I thought to myself as the pager kept updating the presence of an adult White winged Black Tern in Druridge Bay over the last few days. Afte...

This is one of my garden nestboxes. No Blue Tits for me this year, oh no. Tree Sparrows! Feeding young with bill fulls of St Marks flies. ...

Late last night I took Bunts for her final stroll, only to be met face to face with Brock just coming out of the Village Hall car park. He s...

This has been a week of warbler arrivals at Howick.  After the garden Garden Warbler, and yesterday's Grasshopper Warbler (no sign tod...

This morning, along the Lane, I heard a short snatch of a rattling song in the hedge next to the road. I peered over into a sunny open patc...