Axe Birding

I had an early alarm set for this morning, the forecast was promising wind, rain and cloud so I just had to try a sea watch. Up unti...

Even when I spend almost two hours walking around Beer Head in late April and see nothing better than four Wheatear , three Whitethroat and...

I got up nice and early on Saturday, spurred on by tweets from Bill and Andy at Berry Head who had stumbled upon a Nightingale and a Lesser...

Yesterday turned out to be a pretty decent day.  The only migrants about in quantity were hirundines (about time as I've only seen smal...

Unlike the last couple of days I've not had much time out birding today. I spent an hour and half walking the dog around Axmouth this m...

There was yet another aborted attempt at bird ringing on Beer Head on Monday morning, when I got up there it was too blowy.  Mind you, the ...

In the absence of any bird news (it's turning out to be a very poor spring for common migrants, really hope it picks up quick) I thou...

It's been a frustrating week. I've had two 5am wake ups with the hope of ringing on Beer Head, and both morning's I've gone...

Scanning through a large flock of gulls on Seaton Marshes this morning, in very bright sunshine, gave me the fright of my life. There i...

Wow - wasn't expecting that!  The Dart's Farm Penduline Tits did the decent thing and dropped in on us on their way back east.  Ho...

Well spring migration still appears to be on hold, I've not seen anything remotely summery since my last blog post. In fact the only ne...

After a very wet night on Wednesday I thought the Estuary gulls would be worth a look on Thursday morning.  This immediately seemed a good ...

Beer Head this morning didn't show any summer migrants, but the sky looked pretty smart to the east with low cloud perfectly mirroring ...