should never be seen, goes the old adage, indicating that the two colours may clash or indicate Christmas. In the natural world nothin...

 Before I get on to the end of the title, this weekend we were out on Saturday morning rather than Sunday for a change due to circumsta...

 Spring that is. Spring keeps trying, but ultimately failing. The other day the news hollered on about 25 degrees somewhere or other wh...

 I reckon all birders keep lists of some sort. Some might deny this but from my experience it is an inherent activity for birders of all sha...

Theres been a lack of blog posts and some apathy of late. On 5th March Alan Tilmouth rang to say that our great friend Andy McLevy had passe...

  Yesterday, Les Hall, found another White Billed Diver or Loon or whatever in Blyth South Harbour. This is almost 30 years to ...

 On Saturday we went for a pub lunch at Warkworth. On the way back as we called in to the CO-OP a message came through saying Ben Steel...

 Apart from a couple of fine days the weather remains pretty much dreadful across the board. At least the days are beginning to lengthen not...

 It was pretty grim yesterday on the coast, with a strong ESE wind, 100%overcast and some occasional horizontal drizzle. Needless to sa...

 After a week of village birding where the white Blackbird was the highlight, on Sunday we took a short trip inland to Hedgely and Bran...