You may think I’ve been pretty quiet of late, and you’d be right! But I have been out and about, mainly patch-watching in the local area in Wharncliffe and Grenoside.

The area’s well-watched by other birders, and I’ve joined forces with three of them - Dave Woodriff, Andy Hill and Dave Simmonite - to create a multi-author blog to show off our sightings and photos. This blog will be used for the times I go off-patch, but if you want the day-to-day goings on from Wharncliffe, updated very regular by the four of us, then that’s place to go!