Birding Seaton Valley Holywell Pond - morning x 1 Whooper Swan from Members Hide

Birding Seaton Valley Vicarage Garden Song Thrush at the Waterbowl this afternoon

Birding Seaton Valley Vicarage Garden (F) Sparrowhawk just paid a visit and frightened everything on the feeding station

Birding Seaton Valley Crag Point Old Hartley - morning Patch tick #165 Patch Year tick #156 Peregrine reported this morning so a slow windy walk along just took off as I got there and flew toward Delaval Arms area pic 1 - pics 2-4 from last patch

Birding Seaton Valley Vicarage Garden Red-legged Partridge at the Waterbowl

Birding Seaton Valley Holywell Pond had to pass twice today attending school assemblies X 3 (A) x 1 (J) Whooper Swans still around x 1 Pink-footed Goose x 20+ Wigeon (whistling!)

Birding Seaton Valley Vicarage Garden Short Vid of feeding station this morning

Birding Seaton Valley Crag Point - Old Hartley - Morning Nice to see the Fulmars returning x 12 +

Birding Seaton Valley Vicarage Garden A short Video of the now 40+ Greenfinches that have taken over the feeding station

Birding Seaton Valley Vicarage Garden x 1 Brambling under the feeders with the Chaffinches' this afternoon

Birding Seaton Valley Vicarage Garden x 5 Happy Ring-necked Parakeets enjoying there daily Apples this morning

Birding Seaton Valley - late afternoon Seaton Sluice - Harbour x 1 Kingfisher - distant views feeding along the cut beside Kings Arms

Birding Seaton Valley Sluice Upper Harbour / Holywell Dene Saltmarsh late morning - highlights x 1 Little Egret x 1 Willow Tit x 2 Goldcrest (no pics)

Wishing everyone a very happy and joyous Christmas and a peacefully and Bird sighting filled 2026

Birding Seaton Valley 2025 as the year draws to a close a good 2nd year on the patch Patch Bird Total = 165 up 31 2025 = 156 (2024 = 134) Garden = 56 up 4 Flyovers = 20 up 7 Birds photographed at water bowl = 40 up 4 lets see what 2026 brings? all the very best!

x 1 Meter Corten Steel Water Bowl x 2 Vicarage Gardens (Dunston + Seaton Sluice) x 40 Birds now photographed using it added a couple of ticks this year including a Crested Canary!

Birding Seaton Valley today brought 48 patch ticks for 2026 Vicarage Garden - Seaton Sluice - Holywell Pond nothing out the ordinary but an enjoyable wander

Birding Seaton Valley Vicarage Garden couple inches of snow today feeders have been busy all day Red-legged Partridges Ring-necked Parakeets

Birding Seaton Sluice Collywell Bay - afternoon picked up a couple more year ticks 54 Golden Plover 55 Knot 56 Lapwing 57 Song Thrush in front garden when i got home and still had camera in bag!

Birding Seaton Valley Collywell Bay - afternoon confiding Rock Pipit & Stonechat both on beach