13 Avocet, Eurasian White-front and 60 Twite the best of a long day in the field #BudleBay #NEbirding
First Chiffchaff* of this spring on the patch this am + five Avocet (ads) seven LBB and still 550 Brents #BudleBay #NEbirding @ntbirdclub.bsky.social
Budle Bay - Jim Edwards
Latest painting of Budle Bay on the Northumberland Coast. With Budle Point leading to Ross Bank Sands, and over to Holy Island.
Acrylic on paper, 50x50cm, yet to be framed (oak frame, 75.5x74cm).
#budlebay #budlepoint #rosssands #holyisland
This leucistic Barnacle Goose has been present since the autumn of 2025. Still a pitfall when viewed at distance for the unwary. This individual has a particularly delicate bill for a Barnacle IMO.... #BudleBay @ntbirdclub.bsky.social #NEbirding
Brent Geese numbers peak in the pastures around #BudleBay in the New Year once their preferred saltmarsh food eelgrass / Zostera is depleted or dies back on the main part of the NNR. Three hundred and Fifty were present today. @ntbirdclub.bsky.social #NEbirding
10-15 Snow Buntings have been feeding at the point this last week #BudleBay #NEbirding
Up to three Little Egret have regularly been reported this winter #BudleBay #NEbirding
Spotshank, Greenshank and four Blackwit today, hopefully all will overwinter. Also 110 Twite. #BudleBay #NEbirding
A classic backdrop; two very vocal Tawny Owls this evening #BudleBay #NEbirding
Being doing the same today at #BudleBay, says alot about how quiet this autumn has been thus far..
We dont see many Coot in #BudleBay nowadays. This mornings was only the 8th known record in this
millennium #NEbirding
An Eider sheltering from the gale well inside the bay #BudleBay #NEbirding
A big 4.5 metre tide brought many birds onto the saltmarsh inc a handful of Blackwit #BudleBay #NEbirding @ntbirdclub.bsky.social
Black-tailed Godwits #BudleBay #NEbirding
Light diurnal mvt this am before wind got up and rain. Noteworthy was eight Reed Buntings in/off, briefly dropping into cover before moving purposefuly S #BudleBay #NEbirding
Roosting Common Gulls have been regulalry monitored over the years with a high of 14,000 in Sept 1993. Since then peaks have fallen with a mere 1,100 this evening #BudleBay #NEbirding
Peregrine #BudleBay #NEbirding
May explain the utter lack of small waders in #BudleBay this autumn #Nebirding
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Greenshank #BudleBay #NEbirding
Spoonbill still present #BudleBay #NEbirding