Just N of Seahouses harbour Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club plenty of Turnstone plus 8 Purple Sandpipers. Lovely walk to Bamburgh this morning. Stopped to watch Sandwich Terns resting on the shoreline, then noticed 4 Little Terns amongst them - what a difference in size! Sadly no camera with me.

Displaying whitethroat at St Mary's Island, Whitley Bay Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club #whitleybay

An unseasonal short-eared owl quartering the coastal grassland at St Mary's Island and Jack Bucknall 100th bird on his North Tyneside day list Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club #whitleybay

Too far away to be digiscoped really, but this monster, jet black Ruff at Grindon Lough deserves a larger audience than a disinterested Teal Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club

Patchwork Challenge Low-Carbon Birding NHSN Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club Wallsend Wildlife Mike Carr James Common Alan Janes Two Swift at last on the green patch yearlist at Killy Lake #121, & a Garden Warbler singing (sound ⬆!) by the screen hide at Gossy #122; also feral Barnacle still.
Patchwork Challenge Low-Carbon Birding NHSN Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club Wallsend Wildlife Mike Carr James Common Alan Janes

Common Sandpiper, Breamish Valley, Northumberland. 7 - 8 pairs noted.

Lesser Whitethroat, Northumberland. An unobtrusive species, always a delight to hear sing with the quiet warble, followed by a final flourish.

#ColourRinged Avocet (Yellow Flag 7L) back on the #Blyth Estuary this morning after a midweek trip to Cumbria. The Shelduck photobombing it is Lime TS. Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club NERings Alan Curry

There have been a confusing array of redpolls passing through the garden over the last few weeks, including a few I’ve been unsure what to label. I don’t think this large pale individual is a Lesser!? Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club

Long-tailed Tit with young to feed today Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club

A rather cold first sea watching session of the year was rewarded with two scaup, 1 drake and 1 female, flying north plus sandwich terns, razorbills and guillemots! Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club #whitleybay

Fantastic Scaup flight this morning at Church point. 108 north between 6.30-12.00. Natural Newbiggin David dack Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club

Northumberland Tree pipit song-flighting and feeding on ground.

Lesser Whitethroat, Holywell, Northumberland.

White-tailed Eagle has bred in Belgium for the first time in some 500 years, with a pair hatching at least one chick at a site in West Flanders: bit.ly/4d6Nats

Northumberland Grasshopper Warbler in song, as the sun made a brief appearance.

A review of #SuperSwifts by Laurence (6 years) who was amazed swifts can fly for 4 years without landing!🪺booksupnorth.com/kids-book-revi… 'We love the full page illustrations in this book'
Justin Anderson clover robin Walker Picture Books #swifts #birds #migration #booksfortopics

Newcastle and Northumberland birdwatching group announces photographic competition winners
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The biblical levels of rainfall we’ve had so far this year have created some good looking flashes in North Tyneside, and a routine check came up trumps in the rain this evening with a Greenshank at Backworth.

White Wagtail in the main car park @ SMI.