After two days of southeasterly winds and dismal, drizzly ‘grot’ the prospects for something special turning up today look good.<\/p>\n
I spent yesterday in a series of meetings; first as Chair of Governors at our local First School, then a lunchtime networking event as Chair of the South East Northumberland Tourism Association and finally a meeting with Northumberland Tourism about the 2010 Outdoor Activities campaign. Through all of these meetings I could see the rain steadily flowing down the window panes, understanding what this could mean for local birders once the rain stops, bushes dripping with migrants and maybe the odd scarce or rare that that will set birders pulses racing. For the birds themselves it can’t be much fun; for every bird that struggles through the weather and makes landfall, hopefully surviving until the rain clears and it can feed before continuing it’s journey, how many fail to reach our shores, perishing in the brutal cold and swell of the North Sea?<\/p>\n
A few birders were out though; as I drove from Newbiggin to Longhirst a car behind me was flashing it’s headlights. Who’s this clown? I thought, but I stopped anyway. It was none other than AT, fresh from a good soaking on Newbiggin Golf Course where he’d found a Firecrest and a Lapland Bunting. Both good birds, but what’s going to be there today as the day dawns and the cessation of poor weather brings those grounded migrants out into the open?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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