A video is on my YouTube channel but no more pics
It doesn’t do a lot it did fly briefly but I didn’t get any pics it just loafed about before a Buzzard flushed the lot
Either way it’s an interesting bird and added to the recent white out

Kumliens Gull at Barmston Pond today, adding to the 2025 White out for the site

@pratorum2112.bsky.social hi Dave this beast was at BP this morning in flight it had no black in primaries could it be a hybrid ta

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My 2024 BirdTrack year. Highlight has to be the Bee-Eater

First Little ringed Plover of the year on our patch this morning and circa 14 days earlier than last year

This Yellowhammer landed on a fence post 4 yards in front of me this morning. Then it flew down into the grass and picked up some nest building material and flew off with its partner, I guess spring is in the air

Good morning from a breezy North East England

It’s nice to have a daily Iceland Gull

Juv Iceland Gull at Barmston Pond this morning. Not sure if it’s the same bird as seen a week or so ago. It looks more streaky on the breast

A new species of fungi for Barmston Pond. Thin-walled Maze Polypore
Yes it looks like a pizza

Med Gull showing well at Barmston Pond this morning, cracking birds

A great listen on radio 4 extra today

Yeah a wonderful decade of memories and birds. I didn’t realise my appetite for cream teas was so obvious

The perfect Valentine’s Day surprise, should go down nice with a bottle of bubbly

Iceland Gull nice reward for litter picking in the rain at Barmston Pond
Still at 9.30

A nice surprise in the post today, well done to all involved

First Little Grebe of the year at Barmston Pond this morning. Good to see some site management going on by Airedale Forestry as arranged by Sunderland Council

The Peregrine is back on his usual perch at Nightingale Ponds this morning. Also Buzzard Kestrel and Sparrowhawk

Magnificent Frigate bird heaven youtube.com/watch?v=USXA... A superb memory of a birding trip to Trinidad and Tobago in 2011 I think. When the guy blew the conch shell they all went up

All the Parks in Sunderland and beyond have growing populations

Seems to be a big expansion going on, anywhere with mature trees

A video of a Black tailed Godwit at Barmston Pond a few years ago. We don’t get many waders due to water levels so this was a bit special

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No sign of the Short eared Owl this morning at Nightingale Ponds but the Peregrine is back for first time in a month

Sadly the quality is naf

It’s on my list, my only visit to Costa Rica with Speyside Wildlife in 2006 cracking bird I even have video of it on YouTube if you search my name and birds name

Happy New Year tick at Nightingale Ponds
Another Lynda special she’s a canny lass

It’s been a good year on our Nightingale Ponds patch. 114 species seen, 133 ever

It’s always nice to find a perched owl, this one on our Nightingale Ponds patch this morning