Axe Birding

Winter can be a bit of a long, slow and sometimes dull season for the patch birder, this winter especially so on the Axe. There's not b...

Just a quick one to say the Arctic Tern was still around today, I watched it feeding off the seafront late this afternoon with Black-heade...

Like many other places in the south west today, it's been snowing here in Seaton from dawn until dusk. One snow event in a year is exce...

First of all, thanks to everyone who's made kind comments about the article I've written for the November edition of Birdwatch maga...

Monday didn't give that me much time out, but I did grab an hours wander along the footpath running through Allhallows (a large ex-priv...

I'm going to kick this blog post off with a video. Make sure you turn the volume up so you can hear their wing beats... Yesterday...

The raw north wind continued today, and it continued to encourage some decent passage.  This morning a constant trickle of small Redwing fl...

I've been lucky enough to spend quite a bit of time on Dartmoor over the last few weeks, and will be spending a heck of a lot more time...

Despite my best efforts I haven't seen any more interesting gulls on the Estuary, so I can assure all that this blog post is a gull-fre...

With the forecast suggesting this morning was going to be cloudy and still I was keen to get out ringing, and opted for Lower Bruckland Pon...

Seeing as the Fieldfare I caught at Beer Head yesterday was the first Fieldfare I've caught as a C ringer, I thought it deserved a bit ...

Very much an end of autumn feel to Beer Head this morning.  The weather was as perfect as it could be with 100% low cloud cover and for the ...