Anne Bronte's grave and a very confiding Snow Bunting at Scarborough today with @daviddack.bsky.social

Another day another dip at Scarborough, twice I have waited for sightings of the White-throated Needletail to no avail. Consolation today was seeing a Caspian Gull in the harbour with @daviddack.bsky.social

Rarity finders: Isabelline Wheatear in Co Durham Finding a rare bird is thrilling, but doing so due to it landing on your arm is an entirely different level of exhilaration, as Andy Close experienced in a remarkable occurrence at Seaburn:

Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) on the hunt and the prize #UKbirding #NEbirding

Siberian Stonechat (Saxicola maurus) Chourdon Point, Co Durham this morning. With @b0bh.bsky.social #NEbirding #RarebirdsUK #UKbirding

Siberian Stonechat (Saxicola maurus) Chourdon Point, Co Durham this morning. With Bob Howe #NEbirding #RarebirdsUK #UKbirding

Isabelline Wheatear (Oenanthe isabellina) Seaburn 25/09/2025 a few action type images of your wheatear @birds-and-me.bsky.social #UKbirding #RarebirdsUK #NEbirding

Stonechat (Saxicola rubicola) Seaburn, Co Durham. 25/09/2025 #NEbirding #UKbirding

Isabelline Wheatear (Oenanthe isabellina) Whitburn today #RarebirdsUK #UKbirding #NEbirding

Isabelline Wheatear (Oenanthe isabellina) A trip over to Whitburn to see this little cracker today #RarebirdsUK #UKbirding #NEbirding

Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) A very obliging bird in a scrubby area on the links, Whitley Bay this evening. #NEbirding #UKbirding #RarebirdsUK

Great Cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo) St Mary's Island, Whitley Bay. #NEbirding

A Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) on the Links at Whitley Bay this afternoon, sitting next to the footpath with people walking past not ten feet away #NEbirding #UKbirding

Sandwich Tens (Thalasseus sandvicensis) St Mary's Island, Whitley Bay this afternoon #NEbirding #UKbirding

Common Terns (Sterna hirundo) at St Mary's Island, Whitley Bay this afternoon. #UKbirding #NEbirding

Bar-tailed Godwit's (Limosa lapponica) Whitley Bay links golf course this morning. #NEbirding #UKbirding #Birdingnorthumberland

Pechora Pipit (Anthus gustavi) found today by Stephen Egglestone, in Trow Quarry, South Shields. I got there just after 12pm, saw it many times in flight but it was over 5hrs later that I managed to get a few images. #UKbirding #NEbirding #RarebirdsUK

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Two Black Terns present at Druridge Bay CP this afternoon. They are so acrobatic and very fast in flight #NEbirding #UKbirding #BirdingNorthumberland

The yacht that ran aground in King Edward's Bay, Tynemouth is now afloat this evening #Tynemouth

The new work of art at Tynemouth Haven by Ray Lonsdale - Life's Adventure #Tynemouth

The amazing Red Arrows at the finish of the Great North Run, taken from my garden in Tynemouth

Migrants overnight 29/08/2025 Beet Moth (Scrobipalpa ocellatella) 1 Palpita vitrealis 2 Golden Twin-spot (Chrysodeixis chalcites) 2 Silver Y (Autographa gamma) 4 Scarce Bordered Straw (Helicoverpa armigera) 1 Dark Sword-grass (Agrotis ipsilon) 1 Tynemouth. #VC67moths #MigrantmothUK #Teammoth

Convolvulus Hawk-moth (Agrius convolvuli) always brighten up a trap. 28/08/2025 #Teammoth #MigrantmothUK #VC67moths

Scarce Bordered Straw (Helicoverpa armigera) quite a variable moth These were taken overnight in Tynemouth #VC67moths #MigrantmothUK #Teammoth

Migrants from this mornings traps. Scarce Bordered Straw (Helicoverpa armigera) X 2, Beet Moth (Scrobipalpa ocellatella), Dark Sword-grass (Agrotis ipsilon), Rusty-dot Pearl (Udea ferrugalis) & Silver Y (Autographa gamma) Tynemouth #VC67moths #MigrantmothUK #Teammoth

Migrant moth action in the garden overnight with Golden Twin-spot (Chrysodeixis chalcites), Rusty-dot Pearl (Udea ferrugalis), Palpita vitrealis & Silver Y Autographa gamma. Tynemouth #VC67moths #Teammoth #MigrantmothsUK

Webb's Wainscot (Globia sparganii) my 3rd record for the garden and only the 4th Northumberland record, Pictured with a Common Wainscot (Mythimna pallens) both taken overnight, Tynemouth VC67. 17/08/2025 #Teammoth #VC67moths

Ear Moth (Amphipoea oculea) & Saltern Ear (Amphipoea fucosa), both taken overnight in garden. Tynemouth VC67 #Teammoth #VC67moths

Acleris cristana, this beautiful tortrix moth visited my garden overnight. It has many named forms, I think this one is f. subfulvoviittana. Tynemouth VC67 #Teammoth #VC67moths

Duponchelia fovealis taken at mv light overnight, Tynemouth, Northumberland VC67. Being on the north east coast a migrant or adventive who knows #Teammoth #VC67moths

Black-winged Pratincole (Glareola nordmanni), fairly distant veiwing from the north facing hide at East Chevington, Northumberland this afternoon #NEbirding #Rarebirdsuk #Birdingnorthumberland

Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) at Marden Quarry, Whitley Bay. A great bird to see. #UKbirding #NEbirding #Birds #Birdingnorthumberland #Whitleybay

Black Grouse (Lyrurus tetrix) Slaley area today, with Dave Dack

Anyone know what these can be. There are dozens of the caterpillars in procession. they've formed a ring, near Beltingham, Northumberland. #Teammoth #VC67moths

Scallop Shell (Rheumaptera undulata) It's the hundredth record for Northumberland and the first coastal record. #Teammoth #VC67moths #moths #UKwildlife

Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) Marden Quarry, Whitley Bay today, very pleased the bird stayed until I got back from holidays. #UKbirding #NEbirding #Birds

Loving the new updated @birdguides.bsky.social app on my mobile, filters are great

Red-throated Diver (Gavia stellata), Amble Braid, Northumberland, opposite Coquet Yacht Club. My second attempt for this bird and it did not disappoint #UKbirding #NEbirding #Birdingnorthumberland #Birds

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The second garden record this month of Common Emerald (Hemithea aestivaria) also a few Blackneck (Lygephila pastinum) this past week & Square-spot Rustic (Xestia xanthographa) are now putting in a show. Tynemouth #VC67moths #Teammoth #moths

Seems like a major eruption of Small Marbled into the UK, lot's of people catching them, wish one would drop into my garden in Northumberland

Anania coronata & probable Orchard Ermine. Tynemouth 28/06/2025 #VC67moths #Teammoth #moths

Anania perlucidalis, Common Emerald (Hemithea aestivaria) & Shore Wainscot (Mythimna litoralis) taken overnight Tynemouth #VC67moths #Teammoth #moths

Bordered Straw (Heliothis peltigera), & Delicate (Mythimna vitellina) taken overnight Tynemouth #MigrantmothsUK #VC67moths #Teammoth

Pine Hawk-moth (Sphinx pinastri) is a new species for Northumberland, caught overnight in Tynemouth, just such a shame it's so worn. ##Teammoth #VC67moths #moths

Three variations of Dark Arches (Apamea monoglypha) #Moths #Teammoth #VC67moths

Palpita vitrealis to light overnight. #Tynemouth #VC67moths #Teammoth #MigrantmothsUK

I caught this moth overnight, normally I wouldn't bother with such a worn moth, but I keep looking at it and it reminds me of something that I should know. Just for fun what are people's thoughts. #VC67moths #Teammoth #Moths

Large Emerald (Geometra papilionaria), Obscure Wainscot (Leucania obsoleta) and a micro with an easy name to pronounce Ptycholomoides aeriferana, "not" #VC67moths, #teammoth #moths