Singing male Blackcap in the garden this morning.
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Pen and watercolour sketches from RSPB Saltholme, Northeast England - Great Crested Grebe, Reed Buntings, Chiffchaff, Goldeneye, Spoonbill, Marsh Harrier, brooding Heron, Great White Egret and Greylag Goose.

Drawings from a recent visit to RSPB Saltholme, Teesside, NE England; the highlights, though, were what I didn’t see - Cetti’s Warblers every few yards along the path and a booming Bittern (more like an echoing ‘bomp’, in my opinion.)
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Photo of a gull with dark brown cap

Gull at Saltholme yesterday - seems to have more head colour than the usual black-headed, but too brown for Med - possibly a hybrid?
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Larus hyperboreus

Larus hyperboreus

Larus hyperboreus

Another gull submission for #SuperSeabirdSunday!

The juvenile Glaucous Gull at Shibdon Pond, Newcastle on Monday.

Sadly not there today when I took @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social 😭

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Gavia adamsii

Gavia adamsii

It's #SuperSeabirdSunday!

As an arctic bird lover, one of the ultimates is this adult White-Billed Diver that showed incredibly well at Blyth Harbour last Sunday.

A brute of a diver!

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Ink and watercolour sketches: top left - Great Northern Diver (common loon) in winter plumage; centre left - Black-throated Diver in winter plumage; bottom left - Red-throated Diver in winter plumage; top right - Great Crested Grebe in breeding plumage; Centre right - Razorbill in winter plumage; bottom right - Common Guillemot (murre) in winter plumage.

Divers, Auks and a Great-crested Grebe, for #SuperSeabirdSunday (names in the altText).
Pen and watercolour sketches.
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Ink and watercolour sketches of Skylark, Sedge Warbler and Whitethroat from Teesmouth Nature Reserve, northeast England

Another page of birds for what might hopefully (eventually!) turn into a small zine on Teesmouth birds 🤞Skylark, Sedge Warbler and Whitethroat Warbler.
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Pen and watercolour illustrations of waders/shorebirds from the Hartlepool/Teesmouth area of northeast England

A not-completely-exhaustive illustration of our winter shorebirds, but these are the species that you’re most likely to see during winter around Teesmouth (northeast England).
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Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus montanus)

Eurasian Chaffinch & Great Spotted Woodpecker (Fringilla coelebs gengleri & Dendrocopos major major)

Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella caliginosa)

Willow Tit (Poecile montanus kleinschmidti)

We started the new year with a trip to Big Waters, Northumberland. Sadly, we dipped the Icleand Gull as this was the day it decided to turn up very late. We did see some quality birds though.

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Photo of a solitary Whooper Swan at sea.

A solitary whooper swan near Newburn Bridge, Hartlepool today. Unusual to see one by itself, hope it’s ok.
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Anthus gustavi

After six hours, and some peer pressure to stay, the Pechora Pipit eventually gave good but brief views early evening. An insane record.

Whoever tells you to say "no" to peer pressure, must be someone happy with mediocre views!

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Watercolour painting of two young Oystercatchers, heads down and bills open, striding stiff-legged across rock pools and washed-up kelp.

A couple of young Oystercatchers on Redcar beach, practicing that weird walk they do whilst making loud peeps. It’s clearly a very serious and important business, but I always find it funny to watch. (Watercolour painting.)
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Fratercula arctica

An amazing visit to the Farne Islands yesterday with @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social.

Loads of cute chicks and finally got pecked by Arctic Terns!

Plenty of photos to go through but for now, here is an Atlantic Puffin with Sand Eels.

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Rhodostethia rosea

An incredible day with @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social watching the Ross's Gull!

Amazing to see an adult close to home. So unbeliveably thankful it hung around. A dream gull!

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Larus glaucoides glaucoides

My first #SuperSeabirdSunday on here.

The adult Iceland Gull keeping an eye on us as it peruses the recycling centre at Brunswick Industrail Estate, Northumberland.

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Larus glaucoides glaucoides

Larus glaucoides glaucoides

Larus glaucoides glaucoides

Our first day birding in 2025.

It could only start with the Iceland Gull at Wideopen.

American Wigeon, Willow Tit, Tree Sparrows and Yellowhammers the other highlights.

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1st W Casp on the mighty Blyth Est this morning. Who’d have thought that heat haze would have been an issue on the final day of November! #UKBirding, #BirdingNorthEast

Larus marinus

Larus marinus

Larus marinus

Larus marinus

Some of the big boys & girls at Hartlepool Fish Quay on Sunday with @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social.

Sadly, as well as a few dead gulls and one with a broken wing, we spotted this young GBB flying around with a fishing weight tangled on its leg.

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Ichthyaetus melanocephalus

Ichthyaetus melanocephalus

Ichthyaetus melanocephalus

Ichthyaetus melanocephalus

Another winter for the Newburn Bridge Mediterranean Gull as it foraged on the beach today.

@unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social and I spotted a second bonus Med Gull on the beach as well.

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With the sea calming down several Little Auks were feeding just off the prom @ SMI over the early morning high tide. Just a pity that the light was less than beneficial! #BirdingNorthEast, #UKBirding

Next Indoor Meeting - ‘Urban Kittiwakes’ by Professor Helen Wilson on Monday 2nd December 2024 in Stockton-on-Tees Library (TS18 1TU). Meeting starts at 7:30 pm room open from 7 pm for tea and coffee. Visitors are welcome #birdingnortheast @nybirdnews.bsky.social

A late pm wander in Blyth South Harbour gave up 2 GND’s and 2 Little Auks sheltering from the heavy seas. #UKbirding #BirdingNorthEast

The first white-winger of the season appeared off the prom @ SMI this morning, a pristine juv Glauc. No doubt a fellow traveller on the Little Auk conveyor belt. #UKbirding #birdingNorthEast

Incoming. Freshly arrived Short-eared Owl just prior to flopping down behind a large boulder on the SMI foreshore this morning. #UKbirding. #birdingNorthEast

Or even #birdingnortheast

A ‘blinking’ Dipper on the River Aln at Lesbury, Northumberland. #Birds #BirdingUK #BirdingNorthEast

At least 12 of these around the Putting Green/Borough Hall Gardens/Croft Gardens this morning #BirdingNorthEast