Gateshead and Beyond

Blue sky, light winds and warmer temperatures, it felt like spring. At Burdon Moor Skylark and Meadow Pipit were singing and a Red Kite floa...

A short seawatch from Whitburn. A steady stream south of Gannet, Kittiwake and Guillemot with a few other bits and bobs. 0730-1000 Sheldu...

It was all about swans and gulls from Whitburn this morning. A good movement of Whooper Swan and the first flock was dragging along a Bewick...

I was just climbing through the hole in the fence at Stella, cursing as the tide was too high for gulls when I spotted something black and w...

Kittiwakes are back on the Tyne. Showing best on the north side where there are nests just above head height. Kittiwake kittiwaking A ...

The first raptor of the day was a Rough-legged Buzzard from Winter's Gibbet, drifting north west over Harwood Forest. Excellent scope vi...

After a quiet plod yesterday around Gateshead I headed down to Hartlepool this morning. No sign of the Mandarin in the fish quay so headed t...