Axe Birding

Enjoyed a family day out to Dartmoor today, despite the brisk north west wind.... Well that's how I described it to my wife early this ...

I just have to post today, the first day of my big Patchwork Challenge attempt. One of the best things about doing a year list is the b...

I've seen a few nice things over the last couple of days, most of them distinctly wintry. I'm also finding myself willing every goo...

It was nice to see the first frost of the autumn this morning, the windscreen needed a good scrape first thing. And this unprecedented scen...

Well I say unseasonal, but in recent years July has proved a good month for wandering wildfowl. I once had a flock of Pochard fly in off th...

Early on Monday the biggest storm since 1987 came.... and went...  I'm not saying it wasn't bad, because it was, but it lasted ...

The only birding I've had chance for over the last couple of days has been pre-breakfast birding.  That was except for a ten minute wan...

We have finally had settled snow here in Seaton and around the Axe Estuary - it was rather odd how it happened though! Yesterday late a...

Well I didn't leave you waiting quite so long for this blog post! Jess and I have had a week off, and during the week we enjoyed some ni...

It looked very good for sea watching today - well that was until I got down to the sea front at 06:15... A murky sea Although in the photo i...