in and around south tyneside (1 Viewer)

[seggs]

Trow this morning, Still a canny amount of Wheatear about 20+ and 6 Whinchat, 3 Willow Warbs.,1 Goldcrest, 1 Song Thrush and small amounts of Linnet/Medpips/Skylarks. Little Owl flew off around the quarry.
Single Common Scoter off Frenchmans along with 6 Eiders.
5 Golden Plover in the 2nd bay.
The wheatears and one whinchat posed much better today for pic,s:t:
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Cleadon Lane after dinner, nice to meet JBee at last:t: along with Ray,John, Mark and Martin. Busy here today!:-O
More or less the same birds as previous visits highlights being- Little Stint,3 Greenshanks, Curlew Sandpiper(i only picked 2 up), 20+ Ruff,Barwit and a few Golden Plover.
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Boldon Flats Again just about the same as yesterday, seems more Teal and Wigeon here today, Ruff all around the back edges of the flood.
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The Academy, Muddy pitch- Wagtail numbers down from yesterday, 4 imm.Yellow wags, 20+ Pied. The Little Stint is still here makes me think we have 2 in the area, 3 Ruff and 5 Greenshank over.
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Med Gull in the usual carpark on the way home

1-Whinchat
2-Willow Warbler
3-Linnet
4-Wheatear (not for hire)
5-Med Gull (one for Ray)

 

[seggs]

Excellent couple of hours tonight in the good company of Dougie and Ray watching 2 Barn Owls hunting in South Tyneside:t:
Many thanks to Dougie for his info. about them.
Great views, even if the light was too bad for pic,s:-O
And a Swift went over!....Partridge(grey) heard and seen.
The best efforts from me, hope the lads did better!
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How did the shots from South Tyneside today come out John and Ray? Love to see them:t:

 

[Ray.Scott]

Excellent couple of hours tonight in the good company of Dougie and Ray watching 2 Barn Owls hunting in South Tyneside:t:
Many thanks to Dougie for his info. about them.
Great views, even if the light was too bad for pic,s:-O
The best efforts from me, hope the lads did better!
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How did the shots from South Tyneside today come out John and Ray? Love to see them:t:

Yes! cheers dougie, enjoyed the company and couldn't have asked for better views, would've been nice If there had been some light for photo's.
Nice shots Steve, Looking through mine, looks like I have similar on the post but none of the flight shots look to be any good, the cat looks O.K. though :-O.
I'll post a few later when I've had time to process, I might even come accross a decent Little stint, that is if I can find It :-O.

 

[echo24]

Excellent couple of hours tonight in the good company of Dougie and Ray watching 2 Barn Owls hunting in South Tyneside:t:
Many thanks to Dougie for his info. about them.
Great views, even if the light was too bad for pic,s:-O
The best efforts from me, hope the lads did better!
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Glad you enjoyed it Steve, they're superb birds to watch - especially when you're eye to eye with them!.....

No joking folks, when we arrived 'on site' we had good, but distant views in canny light, then later on we were blessed with the most amazing close ups, (albeit in poor light and no good for photos:C) - at one point the bird was no more than 20 feet away at head height - owl watching doesn't get much better than that!:t:

Also, just to vary the pics slightly, I think Ray is going to post a photo of a cat in East Boldon metro station:-O

Thanks lads - top night!

Cheers, Dougie.

 

[echo24]

Yes! cheers dougie, enjoyed the company and couldn't have asked for better views, would've been nice If there had been some light for photo's.


Pleasure, Ray - glad they showed well mate - can't wait to see the cat! lol:-O

Cheers, Dougie:t:

 

[seggs]

Yes! cheers dougie, enjoyed the company and couldn't have asked for better views, would've been nice If there had been some light for photo's.
Nice shots Steve, Looking through mine, looks like I have similar on the post but none of the flight shots look to be any good, the cat looks O.K. though :-O.
I'll post a few later when I've had time to process, I might even come accross a decent Little stint, that is if I can find It :-O.

Post the moggy Ray, as a warm up shot!:-O..what about the EasyJet and Police Chopper??:-O

 

[JBee]

How did the shots from South Tyneside today come out John and Ray? Love to see them:t:

On processing them now Steve.
The honey buzzard was never going to be a prize winning shot but I'll stick it up here to show the wing damage I heard mentioned several times by various people.

 

[seggs]

Excellent couple of hours tonight in the good company of Dougie and Ray watching 2 Barn Owls hunting in South Tyneside:t:
Many thanks to Dougie for his info. about them.
Great views, even if the light was too bad for pic,s:-O
The best efforts from me, hope the lads did better!
...............


Glad you enjoyed it Steve, they're superb birds to watch - especially when you're eye to eye with them!.....

No joking folks, when we arrived 'on site' we had good, but distant views in canny light, then later on we were blessed with the most amazing close ups, (albeit in poor light and no good for photos:C) - at one point the bird was no more than 20 feet away at head height - owl watching doesn't get much better than that!:t:

Also, just to vary the pics slightly, I think Ray is going to post a photo of a cat in East Boldon metro station:-O

Thanks lads - top night!

Cheers, Dougie.

Still buzzing Mate:t:
When a Barn Owl as you say is eye to eye! and peals away at the last moment, great experience!....even if the light is not good.

 

[seggs]

On processing them now Steve.
The honey buzzard was never going to be a prize winning shot but I'll stick it up here to show the wing damage I heard mentioned several times by various people.

Great shots John!! Proves its a Honey Buzzard!
Still missed out with them over the last few days!:-C

 

[Ray.Scott]

Best I got lads, but realy enjoyed the night, told you the cat looked the best :-O
I might stand a chance if there's a prize for the fuzziest, or maybe even the furriest :-O :-O.

 

[The gaffer]

Barn Owl

Barn owl crossed Prince Edward Road at the entrance to Beaconside at 8.40 this evening. The owl flew into Beaconside but I lost it in the houses.

Brian

 

[StevieEvans]

Heartening to read about the Barn Owls.
Untill just a few years ago - that was the place to go to get them on your yearlist..... thankfully thats now changed somewhat.
Well done with the images - cant recall seeing too many photos of BO's hunting in Co.Durham at all:t:

 

[Ray.Scott]

How did the shots from South Tyneside today come out John and Ray? Love to see them:t:

Finally managed to process a few, these are from Boldon Flats on Wednesday.
1/ Ruff.
2/ Snipe.
3/ Grey Heron.
4/ Curlew.
5/ Cross bred Goose, maybe Greylag as It was sitting with them.

 

[rokermartin]

Boldon Flats this pm 50+Ruff,2 Wood Sandpipers,2 Greenshank 5 Snipe,Willow Warbler and a Lesser Whitethroat.Cleadon Lane flash very few waders seen Lapwings and a couple of Redshanks that was about it for there.Water level is starting to go down now at Boldon Flats and Cleadon Lane flash.Not much rain is forecast for the next few days.I think we have had our feast of birds for the time being.I am not expecting many new birds turning up now but Honey Buzzards are still getting seen in the county.

 

[Ray.Scott]

And a few from Cleadon ponds.

1/ Squadren alfa6, (Ruff, Curlew Sand and Redshank).
2/ Curlew.
3/ Ruff.
4/ Fem, Ruff.
5/ Little Stint, just for Steve.

If any of the above are wrong, please feel free to correct me, cos ars a bit numb when It comes to Identifying most birds :-O.

 

[Mark Newsome]

And a few from Cleadon ponds.
1/ Squadren alfa6
2/ Curlew.
3/ Ruff.
4/ Dunlin.
5/ Little Stint, just for Steve.
If any of the above are wrong, please feel free to correct me, cos ars a bit numb when It comes to Identifying most birds :-O.

Nice shots Ray. Also flying Curlew Sandpiper and Redshank in with Ruff in shot 1. Shot 4 is actually a Ruff, a small female.

 

[eagle33]

a curlew sand in number 1 and number 4 is a ruff too

 

[Ray.Scott]

Nice shots Ray. Also flying Curlew Sandpiper and Redshank in with Ruff in shot 1. Shot 4 is actually a Ruff, a small female.

Cheers :t:, I'll correct It.

 

[The gaffer]

Barn Owls

Had an hour this evening watching the barn owl(s) at the usual site in South Tyneside. Good views had but too dark and too distant for photos.

When I was leaving another birder arrived but I was not being anti-social my dog was getting spooked by the wood pigeons flapping in the trees and was barking so I decided it was time to go.

Brian

 

[degsy_safc]

Had an hour this evening watching the barn owl(s) at the usual site in South Tyneside. Good views had but too dark and too distant for photos.

When I was leaving another birder arrived but I was not being anti-social my dog was getting spooked by the wood pigeons flapping in the trees and was barking so I decided it was time to go.

Brian

Brian - i absolutely love your signature, its a cracker :-O