We spent New Year this time in the north east,
celebrating at the Gatehead Hilton with Dr Wendy and Dr Simon
a lively time was had by all !!!!
New Year's day birding was spent at Seahouses in the morning where we had a lovely fish and chip lunch at the Neptune, but Jean wouldn't go on a boat ride to the Farnes !!!
In the harbour we had Long Tailed Duck, a splendid male, with long tail streamers and a cute pink bill.
Not such a good digiscoped photo, but it was windy !!!
And a Red Breasted Merganser.
Then on to Banburgh and Stag Rocks, where we came across lots of people bathing in the sea !!!!
It's the middle of winter, about zero degrees and a howling gale !!!!!
Possibly the same people who saw in New Year on the Quayside in Newcastle wearing just teeshirts !!
There were alot of Purple Sandpiper on the rocks, I guessed about 50 in two groups, very confiding, photographers were getting within a few feet of them.
Then on the sea, along with Eider, we got 2 Slavonian Grebes and Common Scoter.
As we walked back to the car, a flock of about 20 Twite landed in the field next us.
Then the long drive home.
Happy New Year.
celebrating at the Gatehead Hilton with Dr Wendy and Dr Simon
a lively time was had by all !!!!
New Year's day birding was spent at Seahouses in the morning where we had a lovely fish and chip lunch at the Neptune, but Jean wouldn't go on a boat ride to the Farnes !!!
Not such a good digiscoped photo, but it was windy !!!
And a Red Breasted Merganser.
It's the middle of winter, about zero degrees and a howling gale !!!!!
Possibly the same people who saw in New Year on the Quayside in Newcastle wearing just teeshirts !!
There were alot of Purple Sandpiper on the rocks, I guessed about 50 in two groups, very confiding, photographers were getting within a few feet of them.
Then on the sea, along with Eider, we got 2 Slavonian Grebes and Common Scoter.
As we walked back to the car, a flock of about 20 Twite landed in the field next us.
Then the long drive home.
Happy New Year.
