Well that made a change. Some very pleasant weather for Saturday and Sunday!  Saturday was spent cleaning the greenhouse and tidyi...

 Around about the patch this week.. An odd Snow Bunting or two seems to be hanging on in the Bathing House field with birds heard last week...

I've never done a garden birds year list.  Being so restrictive with limited scope its not something I've really considered before, ...

What is it with Smews? Or Smew? Over the years Ive seen plenty of them, harking back 30 years we would get up to 9 on Druridge Bay Cou...

This morning we didn't go far. In fact we only went as far as Alnwick and Lesbury, no more than 5 miles from home, where we walked ...

 After 16 years of Blogging this has been my worst January showing of all. One post. Well, two now. Why is that? I'm not wholly...

 What is going on here? Its been weeks since my last post. So, what has been happening around about? Some decisions have been taken with reg...

One of the unwritten rules for bloggers and those on social media, an etiquette if you will, seems to require that the final post of the yea...