Axe Birding

Today autumn had a chance to breathe. The wet and windy weather of late (which has produced some good birding - keep reading on for that) c...

The raw east wind that's been hammering us for about a week edged more southerly yesterday, and this morning we woke up to a decent sou...

Yesterday saw a good shake up in the weather, with a front arriving from the south overnight Tuesday/Wednesday producing strong winds and h...

Jess had a few cakes to deliver this morning so I didn't get out for an early morning sea watch. If the wind had had a bit of west in it...

Work has been getting in the way this week, hence why I've not done a post since Tuesday. Don't worry it's not because I'm ...

Wow what a day. The best birding day of the month turned out to be the last day of the month, and that was simply because we had some diffe...

When I received a text from Dad mid afternoon yesterday that read 'Arctic Skua stuck in the mud on the estuary from tower hide' my ...

Well I had a feeling the blog posts would start drying up, but I won't apologise because spending so much time on Dartmoor is proving a...

May is my favourite month for sea watching without a doubt. Everything is in fresh spring plumage and the variety of what can fly past is a...

Over sleeping wasn't an option for this morning, as I knew there was a chance of a Large Shearwater patch tick. Impressive numbers of...

Well the weather has been a bit, shall we say, unseasonal! It can't be good for breeding birds up and down the land - very worrying ind...

I woke up to another wet, dull and misty morning....so stayed in bed a little longer than I really wanted to! At just gone seven I finally d...