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Dolphins and a stunning sunset 🙂 NEWT’s North Sea Pelagic 03/07/19
We set out from Royal Quays in better conditions than on Friday and Laura quickly found the Bottlenose Dolphins just around the corner in King Edward’s Bay again 🙂 With Puffins, Guillemots, Razorbills, Gannets, Kittiwakes, Fulmars and Common Scoters all seen as we headed north towards Newbiggin, Laura spotted more dolphins and they came to…
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A cracking start, and 1000-up 🙂 NEWT’s North Sea Pelagic 28/06/19
Incredibly this is our 1000th blog post, and it coincides with our first pelagic trip of 2019… We’d been watching reports on the North East Cetacean Project Facebook group through the day so we knew there’d been dolphins at the mouth of the Tyne most of the afternoon, and Allan had seen them at 16.30…
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Head’s up 🙂 Bespoke Farne Islands Safari 27/06/19
Thursday was a Farne Islands Safari, and after we cancelled Wednesday’s 4hr pelagic due to the rather lumpy sea I was pleased to see that it was nice and calm as I collected Peter and Jan from Newbiggin… A Kestrel perched obligingly on a telegraph pole as we headed up the coast and our first…
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London buses; Bespoke Red Squirrel Safari 25/06/19
Yesterday was one of those days with a very specific target, this time one of our favourite mammals, and a real Northumberland specialty, Red Squirrel… I collected Lynne and Rob from Lowick and we headed down the Northumberland coast towards Druridge Bay and southeast Northumberland. I’d got an itinerary in mind, based around good wildlife…
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About tern 🙂 Farne Islands Safari 20/06/19
Yesterday was an opportunity to head to ‘the Galapagos of the North‘ and I collected Ruth D from Newbiggin then Ruth S and Margaret from Seahouses before heading a few miles down the coast for a morning walk to the Long Nanny… With brilliantly coloured Common Blue butterflies, some very worn Painted Ladies and a…
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Magic tricks; Druridge Bay mini-Safari 06/06/19
With a busy week and a bit ahead of me (guiding a 7 night wildlife photography holiday and then recceing landscape photography holiday locations in the Lake District) I headed to Amble to collect Val and Jimmy for a morning around Druridge Bay… The rhythmic chuntering of Reed Warblers and scattergun song of Sedge Warblers…
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Getting ahead of the weather; Cheviot Valleys Bespoke Birdwatching 04/06/19
I collected John from Cramlington, earlier than originally planned because the weather forecast wasn’t looking great and I wanted to stay ahead of what promised to be some heavy rain, ahead of a day in the Cheviot Valleys and we headed north west in bright sunshine… Roadside verges left unmowed are a haven for invertebrates…