How badly does missing out on seeing a rare bird affect you? Some 'casual' ( ehherm) birders recently on social media have lamented...

  For a change a post about a moth. And what a moth it is too. This is the Merveille du Jour Griposia aprilina, with two ...

Popped down to Boulmer yesterday morning for a few hours, but before that I must have a comment.  If any readers followed the threads on Twi...

 Hi, apologies for the dearth of blog posts over the last few weeks. I began one about 2 weeks ago and never got it finished due to one thin...

 Thursday 15th September. Before starting work I had an hour seawatch with Dan near the Bathing House. A mod NW 4 was blowing but it was gen...

 Before the post, apologies for no further mentions of the loss of the Queen. At 96 it shouldn't be such a shock, but it was to a l...

 As I am writing about something as trivial as moths, an ill old lady has the eyes of the world trained on her health up in Scotland. W...

 Busy, busy, busy now that Autumn is in full swing and the wind has been from the eastern half over the past week. There is never enough tim...

  Top - A Cullernose sunrise, and a quick Sooty Shearwater sketch. Over the last week or so as summer begins to ebb away there have been no ...