As mentioned last time,  this has been a good month for Red backed Shrikes in the UK. The Northern Isles have had the lions share wi...

 Do you ever feel things are just passing you by? As if you are an observer looking in through a window rather than being involved. Tha...

 Probably my most significant observation since the last entry on here has to the the celestial one. Everyone in the country either saw...

 Crikey where does the time go? In late March I mentioned we had lost a close friend in sudden circumstances. What with various invest...

 This post is another all-over-the-shop cornucopia of wildlife sightings locally. Lesser Redpolls. In April I like to keep an even closer ey...

 Since my last post, just for a change, the weather has been biblical. Gales and Rain. Even today it is pouring and cold with a mod NW wind....

 Not a bad Bank Holiday weekend weather wise. Well, 75% was ok, Monday was a wet and windy write off. Friday was Good in more ways tha...

 What an awful week this has been. I wont be going into details on a public web page but last Friday a close friend and neighbour of ours pa...

 Over the last couple of weeks the weather has improved a little, but thats just a brief interlude as things are due to get colder from tomo...

 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, ...