Audouin's Gull (Ichthyaetus audouinii) is one of my favourite gulls, and when one approaches you to within six feet, giving you eye contact, it's something extra special

Marsh Tit (Parus palustris). Morpeth, Northumberland 06/011/2025

Balearic warbler (Curruca balearica) Calas de Mallorca 29/10/2025. Really pleased to have seen three of these birds

Lang's Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous), Wall Brown (Pararge aegeria) & Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria). Calas de Mallorca

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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