Early on Saturday, the house was quiet and I was drinking my first coffee of the morning as the sun shone through the living room window. ...

 Or Missing Person if you like. Misper is the code used by police when someone is reported missing. Its not as serious as that but I haven...

 While sitting at my PC yesterday at work I was day dreaming, as you do, and I got to thinking about the date, the 22nd March.  I knew it ra...

 What a glorious weekend that was. Lovely sunny days and calm with it, but despite the conditions, nothing new was found for the 5kmr p...

 The patch has been a bit quiet of late with only the locals to keep me interested. Barn Owls and Hooded Crow from the house daily and ...

Usually my garden moth trapping in North Northumberland isnt very good in March. Single figure counts mainly consisting of Hebrew Chara...

 This morning, for the first time this year, I went birding away from our village all of three miles to Boulmer.  The main differen...

 March is a quiet time on the Northumberland coast. A lot of our wintering birds have moved on, so we have no Golden Plovers and few Cu...

 My last PC, that blew its electrics after a power cut in January, was almost 9 years old, so it had a decent innings. To be totally ho...

 I hope! New PC comes back tomorrow after getting my saved hard drive uploaded on to it. Hopefully this will see an upturn in blog posts aft...

 A week since my last post and I’m still on the iPad. I’ve been catching up on my favourite bloggage but see that most faves have as little ...

 A quick update on here on Jane’s iPad.  On Thursday evening we had an 8hr powercut, that resulted in my PC going off with a crack when I tu...

 I have seen on Twitter that quite a few birders are taking on the new 5MR birding challenge. That is birding / listing within a 5 miles rad...

 Its been all birdy for weeks now and I am eager for some variety when the weather gets a bit warmer. Soon it will be time to dust off the m...

 This morning dawned clear, fine and cold. Just right for a walk into some of the less visited places around home. The loop from home t...

This morning I set off on an walk beyond the reaches of the Howick patch, over the burn mouth footbridge into Boulmer. Its not that I d...