Aside from Stephen’s bad back, a beautiful spring morning welcomed us at Highbridge when we went to see what the tide had brought in.
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As we are now halfway through March spring is already well underway. Stephen takes a look back over another eventful and enjoyable winter season.
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A year on from the ‘Beast from the east’ the patch has much more of a spring feeling to it than winter.
Read MoreSomerset was in winter’s grip with thick snow forecast, would we be stuck inside, or would we be out watching terrific birds? What do you think? Read on….
Read MoreThe starlings had moved from Ham Wall after 50 days of roosting in the same reedbeds. Would Stephen and Graeme be able to track them down? Oh Ye of little faith read on…
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I was going to say I have just returned from a quiet walk around the Patch, then I thought about it for a minute, and thought - hang on a minute, that was pretty good actually….
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The bird of the season was not the cruising golden eagle, nor the flying barn door of the sea eagle - it wasn’t even the Highland LBJ - It was the…
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A rather splendid (if somewhat lonely) male mandarin on Cheddar Reservoir makes a bright and breezy weekend total of 83 different bird species.
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Trip Report 30th Nov - 2nd December
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A wonderful sighting of three spoonbills at Steart marshes takes Graeme back to happy days in his old roll-top bath in Scotland
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The Patch delivers once again on an early Saturday morning walk for Graeme and Stephen
Read MoreGraeme see a familiar gathering in the skies above Glastonbury…
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Hoping for some good birds on the Patch, Graeme could have been disappointed, but thoughts of days gone by and a bright discovery led to a most enjoyable walk.
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With half an hour to kill, I was glad I stopped off at Cheddar to check out some reported autumn migrants
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Catch up with news from Somerset Birdwatching Holidays and enjoy some of the season’s highlights
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Thunderbirds are Go
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Another hot trip.
Of course we can find the Somerset cranes - Never in doubt.
Cranes and other magical flying creatures.
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Who says there are no birds to see in high summer?
You just have to work a little harder to see them.
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Our success rate at finding cranes had not been great, we had found one…and that was a cardboard cutout. Undaunted we set off…
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The Avalon Marshes is truly the ‘Heron Capital of Britain’ where mere mortals can enjoy some wonderful birds
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