Axe Birding

First of all, I'm going to get the negative part of this post out of the way... Actually, I can't bring myself to write about it ...

Well there were no new species for the garden last night, but there were more moths with 153 of 29 species ... 1 Flame Carpet 3 Common Marb...

There's not been much on this blog lately; I've been busy filling out forms, ordering things, setting things up, downloading things....

Yesterday morning, the list of birds that I've only seen in a deceased state on patch, doubled! A Puffin that Phil found washed up on Se...

As I wandered along the track towards the Black Hole Marsh 'island hide', my head was going through all the birds that could be in f...

Colyford Scrape this morning had two Ringed Plover and six Dunlin on it. Which although poor - is twice as good as yesterday morning! In Ma...

Spot Flies are one of the last summer migrants to pass through the south coast in the spring. So the sight of five flycatching in the fiel...

I haven't been up Beer Head for weeks - but this morning's total cloud cover and lack of wind lured me up there after covering over ...

With all the scarce immigrant moths turning up in the UK at the moment, and as the conditions seemed quite good last night, I put the trap o...

Well I've given the sea as much effort as I could afford today - but to no great avail. I sea watched; 06:00 - 07:00, 08:00 - 08:30, 11...

Time to get this 'birding blog' back up to date.... and to be honest that won't take much because besides the birding highlights...

Well it's high time I got this blog back on track really isn't it!? So I shall tidy up all my mothing news since my return from Scot...