I still haven't found away to add a picture to the header above. It looks like its because this template may not be recognised so i...

This current warm spell, I'm reluctant to call it a heatwave unless its been on until about September, has been great for garden mothing...

 Day 6 since our dismally failing albatross twitch to Bempton.  I can easily get over missing out on such a great bird, so that's no...

 Do you keep a bird list? If you do, what does it really mean to you? Is it an integral, important part of your birding? I think most o...

 An early start yesterday and keen to get out was soon dampened by thick sea fret reducing visibility to a couple of hundred metres.  ...

 Back in September 1993 the late Andy Booth found Northumberland's first Gadfly Petrel off Hauxley. In 1996 it was accepted by BBRC...

 Yesterday, whilst everyone was having to duck when an albatross flew by in Yorkshire, I was stuck in my cell, working, while builde...

 Thursday was our warmest day of the year so far at 25 degrees, not bad for Northumberland. Then on Friday it had dropped by 14 degrees to 1...

 If you read this blog regularly you will see that John and me spend a bit of time birding and looking for inverts on what we call our ...

  For some reason I couldn't sleep on Saturday so got up early to do the moth trap. Numbers still aren't up to usual st...

 Its taken a little while to get over the excitement of this weekend's birding up here. What a spell Northumberland is having this ...