Crazy leucistic adult Pectoral Sand (Snowpiper..) from this w/e in southern Georgia.. have only ever seen one leucistic wader before from memory - any stats on occurence among shorebirds? Wader Study Graham Appleton

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Golden retrievers, a sunset, and a field of barley… how could I resist??? Near Littlehoughton, Northumberland this evening

There’s been loads of Caspian Gulls around while I was away on holiday, so pleasing to finally catch up with a juvenile in Boulmer Haven this evening Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club

No better way to spend a Saturday night… Orbital at Lindisfarne Festival

The naturalized Cardoon (Artichoke Thistle) Cynara cardunculus at Seaton Pt Northumberland is looking particularly mighty this year. Teenager for scale #WildFlowerHour wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Adult Sabine's Gull N through Boulmer Haven yesterday in grewat light. What a stunner.... #Northumberland #Fieldsketches #BirdArt #Seawatching

Arctic tern and common gull join red list of UK species in crisis theguardian.com/environment/ar…

A good afternoon… pressed send on the draft of the 2022 UK RBBP report to British Birds then pottered around Howick… Pied & Spotted Fly, Garden Warbler, Yellow Wag, Wheatear, etc. 26 Manxies (all in one flock), Roseate Tern & Arctic Skua offshore along with 10+ 🍼👃 🐬

Birds of Conservation Concern 5 Seabirds. 5 seabirds added to the red list of greatest conservation concern. Read the full paper britishbirds.co.uk/seabird-bocc5a Read our blog community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/scie…

Stunning ten minutes of hirundine migration at Boulmer, late afternoon. Maybe 2-3 thousand Swallows and House Martins heading north (!) over land and sea, passing all around me. None before or after this period. Spine-tingling, hair-raising, the magic of nature!

Young Common Seal on the beach at Boulmer. Unusual here - I don’t think they breed in Northumberland? Hopefully healthy, had gone a little while later. Also two Minke Whales distantly offshore NHSN

Shake dog shake. Rosie & Sam at Hedgeley today

Seawatching from Howick earlier - hard work due to poor visibility in mist and drizzle, but pleased with my first Balearic Shearwater since 2022 Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club

Cullernose Point 0910-1100 hrs - nothing rare, but shearwatertastic with 86 Sooty & 702 Manx. Also 2 Bonxie, 1 Arctic Skua, c220 comic terns, 1 Whimbrel. All too distant to photograph, so here’s the Gannets feeding just offshore Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club

Epic seawatching - a five shearwater day in Northumberland! T-shirt weather too! Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club

Limpet rings on the foreshore at Howick. Amazing they can wear a groove in such hard volcanic rock, although apparently they can live for 16 years so have plenty of time to do it!

Blown away by RIDE at Boiler Shop tonight. Just over 34 years since I last saw them, which surely can’t be right as it makes me old 😬

In the September Issue: The status of the UK’s breeding seabirds: an addendum to the fifth Birds of Conservation Concern in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man and second IUCN Red List assessment of extinction risk for Great Britain britishbirds.co.uk/seabird-bocc5a

A potter around Boulmer this pm - 2-3 Black & 4+ Roseate Terns, 3 Little Gulls, 1 Arctic Skua, 2 Sooty & 2 Manx Shearwaters, Pale-bellied Brent, Merlin, Wheatear. Pics all a bit distant!@NTBirdClub