Winter North Tyneside at it's best!

Few photos from the last couple of weeks, no need to leave North Tyneside!

 Glossy Ibis at Tynemouth, first for North Tyneside yesterday!

 Scaup still showing very well at Killingworth Lake.

 White-Fronted Goose at Holywell (just out of North Tyneside)

'Central Asian' Lesser Whitethroat at Tynemouth.

Canny Weekend

A few highlights from the weekend:

 Cracking female Scaup at Killingworth Lake.

 Purple Sandpipers at St. Mary's.

Curlew at St. Mary's.

Male Blackcap in the Garden.

Past few days on the patch..

Nice week or so at St. Mary's, with the arrival of my new scope, I was itching to get it out. To kick things off, I located the Med Gull with the Black-Head flock yesterday, and today found a cracking juvenile Scaup on the wetland! I was over the moon with this bird, and only the second time I have seen one on patch, the first time being seawatching fly-bys! Wetland first! Also had a Black Redstart on the rocks on the island last week.

 Black Redstart

 Scaup

Med Gull