As birders we are very lucky, in European terms, to live in the UK. Being at the westernmost edge of the continent, stuck out like a giant h...

We that's a turn up for the books, two new British birds in a year. After last week's Thrush Nightingale, news of a mythical mega ...

Or Thrush Nightingale to be more accurate. Since childhood I always wanted to see the bird sometimes called a Sprosser and wondered why it w...

Now that many more people are becoming interested in moths and moth trapping, the internet and social media is saturated with images of th...

This has been a good autumn so far for Curlew Sandpipers in Northumberland. Down on the shore at Boulmer there are still 4 juvs with 300 Du...

As I drove home from work I passed Warkworth and saw that the increasing tide was already a shade too high for birding, so I popped home the...

The road to Warkworth Beach... This morning started bathed in lovely sunshine, a great improvement to yesterday's deluge, so we met ...

Last night a brief stop on my way home from work to scan the Coquet Estuary from Amble marina didnt look promising. The tide was high and a ...

I was over the moon to find this lovely Dusky Sallow  Eremobia ochroleuca as the very first moth out of the trap this morning. It is the fi...

Its quiet here this weekend. Jane is away down to Northants to see her sister and toddler. This leaves me and Bunty to lol around, make a me...

Another busy weekend with scarcely a lift of the binoculars. It was our village show on Saturday so all day was spent with that leaving tod...