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Not the best of weather for a trawl round the patch as the pic illustrates.... but it has to be done. If anywhere has an entitlement to be a...

The female Scaup turned up again on the basin at Glasson Dock yesterday after an absence of a week or two, last seen by me during a WeBS co...

A day round the 'patch' with JB today was well overdue but didn't quite produce the birds we know are there, but also didn't...

If you've been taking a look at the blog since I started it up recently I'd like to thank you and hope you found at least a little s...

....to the patch to note the highlights. At Conder Green, the best bird here had to be the male Stonechat seen again, 2 Greenshank , a King...

....bad weather, which turned on JB and I in just the same way that it did on Friday last, but before we finally let it grind us down.... At...

....from my book on bird behaviour. Many years ago now I staked out one day at Out Rawcliffe to see a Barn Owl which had been interestin...

....by the weather which took a turn for the worse early afternoon. But not before a couple of hours doing a round with JB/BT during which w...

Only managed three hours after lunch today before the weather turned nasty. A Merlin put an impressive minimum of 8,000 Knot, 650 Bar-taile...

I had read an article in a previous  edition of British Birds about the hunting strategy of Eurasion Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus which ...