Friday 18th April
Low Newton
It's Good Friday, it's the brats' Easter Holidays AND it's sunny....which all adds up to the inbred plebs day out :smoke: The beach was heaving!!!! Thankfully not so many inland next to the Scrapes and the Pool itself.....tho' I did have one patronising idiot trying to 'impress' me with tales of how he once watched a Golden Eagle feeding it's youngster at Yeavering Bell :-O Apparently he was up above it and was only about 30ft away :eek!: Gosh, I must be a TERRIBLE birdwatcher because I never see sights like that! :smoke:
90: Blackcap ~ male singing loudly as I got out of car at High Newton
91: Swallow ~ two flying overhead as I walked down the bank into Low Newton :t:
92: Meadow Pipit ~ two/three singing & flight displaying at Stringer's Scrapes
93: Ruff ~ single bird on Scrapes
94: Willow Warbler ~ male singing behind Newton Pool Hide
A pair of Greylag also had six newly-hatched Cygnets.
Very nice few hours despite the idiots day out
Saw my first Hedge Garlic of the year, Bluebells just coming into bloom, some sort of 'vetch' species in flower (photo taken) and, closer to home, Wood Anemone carpeting a nearby wood on outskirts of Alnwick. Lovely views of a Peacock butterfly at Low Newton.