WWT Washington

Great day out with close-ups of the ducks, geese, moorhens, etc.

Warkworth beach

Paula and I escaped the house mid-afternoon to take a walk along the beach - and I was hoping to catch a few birds and plants as well, it being a bit breezy and overcast to hope for too many insects. Monty rolled in some muck on the beech, and we had to get him to go in and out of the waves to make him compatible with civilisation again, but all was eventually well.

Black-headed Gulls, Herring Gulls, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Sandwich Tern, Shelduck, Mallard, Greylag Geese, Little Egret, Grey Heron, Curlew, Oystercatcher, Meadow Pipits, Linnets, Reed Bunting, Whitethroat, Willow Warbler.

Harebell, Hop Trefoil, Common Vetch, Bush Vetch, Red Clover, White Clover, Black Medick, Common Restharrow, Burnet Rose, unknown Speedwell, Smooth Hawksbeard, Autumn Hawkbit, Common Daisy, Thrift, Yarrow, Mouse-ear Hawkbit, Rough Chervul, Marram Grass, Cocksfoot, Gorse, Goat Willow, Ash, Sycamore, dried out orchid flowering spikes, 

East Chevington

Barn Owl, Sandwich Tern, Black-headed Gull, Little Gull, Cormorant, Mallard, Gadwall, Willow Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Goldfinch, Reed Buntings, Meadow Pipit.

I was very bad I think with one of the Sedge Warblers, which chitted away very close to me. Afterwards I realised that I had probably disturbed it very close to its nest, and the photos showed it with a cranefly in its beak.

Lindisfarne

This SHOULD be a Meadow Pipit, Anthus pratensis, not too dark a bird, with fairly clear streaks, some yellowish tinge to the lower bill and lightish legs:

Druridge and Cresswell

Sand Martins, Swallows, House Martins, Grey Heron, Spoonbill, Little Egret, Redshank, Icelandic race of Black-tailed Godwits, Ringed Plover, Curlew, Sandwich Tern, Comic Tern, Little Gull, Black-headed Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Herring Gull, Mallard, Gadwall, Greylag Geese, Canada Geese, Reed Buntings, Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler.