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  1. Gill Osborne

    Gill Osborne's 2024 List

    A few quick updates.... Tuesday 13th February Greenside, Ryton 40: Collared Dove Osborne House, Wallsend 41: Ring-necked Parakeet ~ lifer no. 236 😄 I was unloading the car at Osborne House, North Terrace (opposite Burnside High School) as I had a few things for my ex-husband. As I...
  2. Gill Osborne

    Gill Osborne's 2024 List

    Saturday 3rd February 2024 Wallington Hall, National Trust First of three days off work and as the forecast was dry I decided to head inland and spend a few hours at Wallington Hall which is a National Trust property just ten miles or so from where I live. It's been quite a few years (5+)...
  3. Gill Osborne

    Gill Osborne's 2024 List

    Thanks Delia :) Yes, it's been a funny few years but I'm over the mentally head-battering rubbish now and looking forward to a few years of enjoying life and getting out amongst nature as much as possible. And looking forward to a walk around the National Trust property at Wallington Hall...
  4. Gill Osborne

    Gill Osborne's 2024 List

    A couple more from yesterday on my walk in to work. Thursday 1st February 2024 Stakeford, Northumberland 26: Starling 27: Blackbird 28: Sparrowhawk ~ dashed overhead in pursuit of a starling but missed!
  5. Gill Osborne

    Gill Osborne's 2024 List

    I really need to STOP making plans cos something always pops up to nobble them! :rolleyes: It is Wednesday 31st January (where HAS the month got to???) and today was my first chance to actually dust off the bins and get outdoors...albeit at the very late start time of 2pm! This past few...
  6. Gill Osborne

    Gill Osborne's 2024 List

    It's been a while since I was last able to properly get out birding...the past two years especially being very much 'eventful' in my personal and working life with, amongst other things, the breakdown of my 24 year marriage, losing the job I loved more than anything then, in 2023, finding...
  7. Gill Osborne

    First Bird Of 2023

    Grey Heron. Wasn't expecting that! Was giving a friend a lift to work at 6am and as we were stopped at a red light a Heron flew over the car into a field next to the road.
  8. Gill Osborne

    Gill Osborne's 2021 List

    I'm on nightshift tonight (9.45pm till 6.15am then same again Thursday night) so I've spent the afternoon catching up on housework which won't get done over the next few days due to other rubbish shifts (finish nights at 6am on Friday then back in at 6pm till 2am on Saturday ~ no daylight for me...
  9. Gill Osborne

    Gill Osborne's 2021 List

    Friday 22nd October Seen from top deck of X15 bus as it travelled along A1 just before Ulgham 92: Barn Owl ~ hunting across scrubby grassland, 7.23am
  10. Gill Osborne

    Gill Osborne's 2021 List

    Update from 5th June ~ the Black Tern was, in fact, an American Black Tern so a lifer for me!!! 😀 89: AMERICAN BLACK TERN lifer no. 232 🤩 Other than the completely unexpected lifer it has been a bit of a year for me. Neil and I split up and now live at virtually opposite ends of...
  11. Gill Osborne

    Gill Osborne's 2021 List

    Saturday 5th June Long Nanny, Northumberland 87: Lesser Black-backed Gull 88: Arctic Tern 89: Black Tern my first since 2003! 90: Sandwich Tern 91: Ringed Plover
  12. Gill Osborne

    Gill Osborne's 2021 List

    Thursday 20th May Alnwick 86: Tawny Owl ~ male hooting at 11.45pm behind our flat from overgrown gardens behind us.
  13. Gill Osborne

    Gill Osborne's 2021 List

    Thursday 13th May Eyemouth, Scotland I cheekily sneaked ower the border whilst Nicola wasn't looking and spent a few hours with my penpal of 3 years, Anne. She lives in Cumbria but loves Eyemouth and tries to visit a couple of times a year. We've been trying to meet up for the past 18 months...
  14. Gill Osborne

    The annual 'whose got Swifts' thread

    Swallows are very scarce here in Alnwick, Northumberland (I've seen just one!). Saw my first at Warkworth on 15th along the River Coquet and had good numbers in Boulmer village last Thursday 29th April Swifts....a single bird on Thursday 29th but nothing since :cautious: No House Martins...
  15. Gill Osborne

    Gill Osborne's 2021 List

    Aww thank you. I just use a basic point-and-shoot digital camera (Canon PowerShot SX430 IS) and hope for the best :ROFLMAO: The joy of digital cameras is that you can take a thousand pictures and it doesn't cost anything compared to the past when we used film.
  16. Gill Osborne

    Gill Osborne's 2021 List

    Thursday 29th April (cont,) Boulmer 80: Gannet 81: Golden Plover 82: Wheatear 83: Whimbrel
  17. Gill Osborne

    Northumbrian Birding

    Couple of hours at Boulmer today. Swallows aplenty and good numbers of Wheatear on cliffs at Longhoughton Steel, couple of Whimbrel and 13 Golden Plover in breeding plumage
  18. Gill Osborne

    Northumbrian Birding

    SWIFTS are back in Alnwick.....now just need the weather to begin to warm up to more summery temperatures! ;)
  19. Gill Osborne

    Gill Osborne's 2021 List

    Thursday 29th April Northumberland Street, Alnwick Summer has arrived!!! :cool: Driving Neil to work I was thrilled to see that familiar manically-flapping zigzag flight of my favourite harbinger of summer - a SWIFT! Earliest I've ever seen one if I remember rightly (I'll check my records...
  20. Gill Osborne

    Gill Osborne's 2021 List

    Wednesday 28th April Alnwick Moor I had an hour to burn before picking Neil up so decided to pop up to the moor. Still not a lot about and no sign nor sound of any grouse but a trio of circling Buzzard were nice...as was a male Kestrel hovering. A couple of Curlew flew overhead calling and...
  21. Gill Osborne

    Gill Osborne's 2021 List

    Saturday 24th April Plot 34, Ratten Row Allotments, Alnwick I spent a pleasant hour pottering around and moving plants and seedlings into bigger pots in the greenhouse as well as belatedly cutting back a very overgrown 'Black Knight' buddleja shrub. All the while I was serenaded by the sound...
  22. Gill Osborne

    Gill Osborne's 2021 List

    Thursday 15th April I've been looking after a friend's four budgies for a week and today I took them back to her home in Lynemouth. I really enjoyed having them in our home but it almost killed my poor husband as he is allergic to their feathers and dust :censored: Poor chap spent most of the...
  23. Gill Osborne

    Gill Osborne's 2021 List

    A little bit of playing catch up from my notebooks..... Thursday 1st April North Shields & Whitley Bay Neil had to do a first aid course at Royal Quays today so as he cannot drive at the moment I booked the day off work and went off birding in a few of my old haunts whilst he was busy. First...
  24. Gill Osborne

    Gill Osborne's 2021 List

    Sunday 28th March Bailiffgate Court, Alnwick 63: Grey Wagtail ~ male on roof of flat opposite ours! 10.30am. No photo unfortunately as he disappeared off to other side before I could grab my camera.
  25. Gill Osborne

    Gill Osborne's 2021 List

    Saturday 27th March Northumberland Street, Alnwick 62: Chiffchaff ~ finally! They've turned up singing for the past week or two in Alnmouth & Howick yet not a peep in Alnwick. Last year I heard my first on 17th.
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