My first…

 …Brown Hare of the year from another short local walk. It might have been short and local but I think I have walked too much because my knees are feeling it now so if I do go out with the camera in the next few days it will be from a hide.

I moved very slowly to my left to see if I could get a picture of this Brown Hare without the twig in front of it however as soon as I did it was off.

I liked the way the late afternoon sun was lighting up this Common Gull.

Another Common Gull. I don’t think I have seen many around my local area.

Herring Gull taking off.

I liked how small this Wren looked sitting on the fence post.

A rubbish shot of a Fieldfare lit by the setting sun.

The Moon at 4.06pm.

Bamburgh part two

 More from the beach and rocks at Bamburgh. The Sanderling are cracking little birds and I was fascinated by the way they scurried around the beach and as always, I took far too many pictures of them. If I stood still while on the beach most of the birds would come close and weren’t bothered at all about me being there. All in all, it was a great three days.

I thought at first this was a Curlew Sandpiper but the more I look the more I think it is a Dunlin.

Sanderling.

Sanderling and Redshank.

Levitating Redshank.

Purple Sandpiper.

Common Gull.

Disappointed to miss…

…the Little Gull, Glaucous Gull and Kittiwake at South Shields last Tuesday. However, the Snow Buntings more than made up for it. Moreover, it is always fantastic to watch the Fulmars performing from the cliffs. A Sparrowhawk at Lamesley was the pick of the bunch (for me at least) of some canny birds including Shelduck, Shoveler, Gadwall, Teal, Wigeon and Curlew. A couple of Bank Vole and a Rat (unfortunately) have moved in outside the hide picking up the seed dropped from the birdfeeders.

Sparrowhawk

Curlew

Rat

A cracking male Snow Bunting

Female Snow Bunting

Fulmar

Kestrel

Common Gull

One of the many Pigeons on the cliffs at South Shields