John Chapman

Happy birthday!

17 Snow buntings at South Shields Pier at around 10am flew off NW across the harbour when repeatedly flushed by dogs. Does anypne know if the Whitley Bay birds were present around this time?

Red necked grebe showing well at Boldon Flats this morning #NEBirding

Felt like proper autumn in Trow this morning in the mist with Redwings Fieldfare and Brambling and hundreds of Barnacle geese

First Redwings of the season over the garden overnight #nebirding #nocmig

After a total blank in spring, the first Whinchat of the autumn was on South Shields Leas this morning on one of the few areas left unmown by the National Trust #patchbirding

Juv Mediterranean gull

Summer plumaged bar tailed godwit

Nice summer plumaged Barwit and juv Med gull from South Shields. Tern and wader numbers slowly increasing #patchbirding

My grand daughter just found this in the garden. Nearest I can get is Old Lady but happy to be corrected

It's always struck me as strange that cutting of trees and bushes after March is strongly discouraged to protect breeding birds, but you can do as much damage as you want with a mower. Not much left of this Stonechat territory in Trow Quarry #nebirding

A bit chilly but Iceland gull and 3 Med gulls in the roost off Trow this evening. #NEbirding

Cheers Steve

14 Little asks from S Shields pier in the last hour. Birds N close in along the breaker line then doubling back at the pier before either dropping onto the sea to reorientate or follow the pier out to sea

Busy over the garden at dawn today Redwings Fieldfare and Brambling #vismig #nocmig

Good arrival of thrushes overnight with 931 Redwing and 46 Fieldfare over the house between the first birds at about 02:00 and the end of recording at 06:30 #nocmig

Ring ouzel in hedge SW of Leas Mound then flew W. Trow v quiet 2 chiichaff 1 Blackcap and a few Redwing over

YBW on garden list!

Yellow-browed warbler Trow Quarry

First decent Redwing movement of the autumn with 88 calls recorded from the house overnight #nocmig

Leas / Trow the same Andy

Leas hedge this morning Garden warbler 2 Whinchat Whitethroat 4 Chiffchaff

Nice Covovulus Hawkmoth in the Souter moth trap this morning

Pied fly Trow quarry

Leas and Trow very quiet this morning. A Sedge warbler on the mound, but this may have been locally bred

7 Wood sand and 3 Curlew sand Boldon Flats

Singles of Spot fly, Willow warbler, Wheatear and Stonechat (locally bred?) in Trow Quarry this morning