Gateshead and Beyond

An excellent day in Northumberland, but unfortunately no year ticks. Started at Stag Rocks where poor and very distant views of the Black ...

Spent a few hours on a very windy day in wellies hunting round Gateshead for Jack Snipe. With no luck and just one flushed Common Snipe, I c...

An unbelievable day at Rufforth, with an amazing 27 Caspian Gulls (we missed an adult. 15x 1st winter, 11x 2nd winter and one 3rd winter was...

Had a look up north this afternoon. Cold and windy at Stag Rocks, but I did manage poor, distant views of the Black Scoter. The bird was in ...

Another look at the redpolls at Birling this morning. Warm and overcast, but a bit windy, the redpolls played ball, regularly flying up from...

A close encounter with an Otter on the River Team was the highlight of a look around Gateshead this morning. Unfortunately the briefest of v...

We headed way west to try for Andy's bogey bird- Ring-necked Duck. With the long staying bird at Caerlaverock having disappeared a coupl...