Axe Birding

....or not!  Sadly I didn't hit the 200 I was after for my 2013 patch year list, in fact I've fallen along way short.  Still, it wa...

A proper rarity today - I've been twitching! I'll be honest, twitching isn't my thing, I have nothing against those that do, it...

Well this hasn't been a busy blog of late, and that's quite simply because I haven't seen anything worth blogging about! It...

Just to quick one.  Ivory Gull is one of my most wanted, and it is one of very few birds that I'd actually travel to see.  So I really e...

First of all, I must highlight a new blog that has appeared on my blog list; gobirdingexmouth.blogspot.com .   Ace bird finder Matt Kno...

First of all, I have to say thank you so much for all the comments, emails, texts and tweets in response to my previous post. I do have mor...

I probably shouldn't write or send this post - but I'm going to. First of all, a brief summary of recent events. A few days a...

Monday was something else - birding from my back door felt like birding on the east coast! Annoyingly I had to work for a few hours Mon...

Just a quick post - with the superb news that yesterday I saw my 25th patch Glossy Ibis ! Yes, finally the Axe has bagged one this year, wi...

This is going to be a very duck orientated post, as pretty much everything I've seen that's notable has been a form of wildfowl!! ...

This is our garden... All a bit wooden! You couldn't really call it a haven for birds, and most days a couple of Wood Pigeons , ...

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 ...

Yesterday, although the weather wasn't quite as suitable for sea birds, I still had a couple of looks over the sea. I've been hopin...

After a post moaning about the lack of patch year ticks - along come three! Rewinding back to Friday, and I was just having a bite to e...

It really is getting annoying now!  There are so many possibilities when it comes to potential patch year ticks at this time of year, so so...

We (not just the patch, but Devon as a whole - in fact to a certain extent the south west!) have been left behind by the rest of the UK. The...

Thought I was going to have to wait a bit longer for Yellow-browed Warbler to get on my patch year list - but I was pretty confident I was...