Patchwork Challenge

Mark stumbles blindly through a chat with Julian Hughes about his patch at Conwy RSPB. James and Niall save the day to some degree with coherent questions, and Julian answers everything like he was born to do this. Mark redeems himself a little with a bird impression that could be described as 'adequate'...

Mark talks to Ryan about beating the summer blues, Gary Prescotts Biking Birder challenge, predictions for August, and some of the more unusual finds from Mark's garden

Podcast 4! Mercifully short, and we reveal the points changes that will come into effect for PWC 2017

In this episode, Mark and James discuss the scoring system, and the sticky subject of point-scoring subspecies. We then hear Dr Will 'Swinhoes' Miles talking about his time on Fair Isle and his fascinating study of the 60 year dataset collected by the observatory