John picked me up at 7.30 this morning to head up towards Beadnell for a change. We could have nicely gone down to East Chevington for Shore...

For a change, this morning John and I met up at Seaton Point, Boulmer with the intention to walk around the headland, checking the sea and s...

After the birding excitement of recent weeks, today saw things slow up a little, back into the usual pace for winter birding in Northumberla...

If you are a birder living in Northumberland you should count yourself very lucky. We may be very impoverished on the butterfly, moth and ...

On our way shopping yesterday my phone rang and a voice came over the speaker in the car. Quiet at first, then in a trembling, hushed tone, ...

As I alluded to in the last post, a trip up to Holy Island on Wednesday for Britains 6th Siberian Accentor came to nothing, our Russian had ...

Sitting at work two weeks ago watching the development of the twitch to Shetland for the UK's first Siberian Accentor, little did I know...

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...