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Drake Eider currently swimming down the Tyne in Wallsend 08:12 iPhone shot you can just see it in the middle leaving a wake behind it 😀🤣

Another early start to beat the park runners etc. best bird a single Kittiwake not easy here. Also Willow Tit, Pochard, Stonechat, RN Parakeet, Cetti’s, Water Rail, Lapwing, 2 Teal, Jay and GC Grebe.

1500 Barnacle Geese left out to sea over Budle Point this morning. Failed to add any this evening, but did stumble into a bonny Red-throated Pipit!

First Swift back over the garden this morning.

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First day on the Swallow Pond patch for a bit and a 05:45 start. 3 new with Garden Warbler - always tricky to get here, Common Tern (2) and Swift. Best of the rest were Pochard and Cetti’s Warbler.

Another early morning wander around the patch nowt new apart from the Great Crested Grebe now have young. Best of the rest 3 Pochard, Willow Tit, Cetti’s Warbler, Stonechat (pair) 2 Common Tern, Cormorant and a male Pheasant.

Swallow Pond; first Toadlets of the year here for me. Not much change bird wise with 4 Pochard, 2 Common Tern, 2 Lapwing, Cetti’s Warbler, Cormorant, Water Rail. Also 2 Roe Deer.

Early start on the patch again this morning but nothing unusual best birds the Cetti’s, Pochard, Shoveler, GC Grebe pair and young and the 2 Common Tern still present probably wondering why the Tern rafts are still free range 🤣 the patch could do with some rain!

Song Sparrow Singing

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Diogo Jota died this morning in a car accident in the Zamora region of Spain near the Portuguese border. Absolutely devastating. Devastating. RIP daveockop.com/latest-news/di…

Vervain (Verbena officinalis) was a new plant species for the Swallow Pond list today birds still as you were apart from a Little Egret on the island first for awhile. Reed Warbler singing in balancing pool Phragmites best of the rest. Still got no mud for waders!

Another 5am start a bit of mist a good look around and a few hours in the hide and as per usual no waders a fly through would do! everywhere else seems to be getting some passage the best sighting today was a Fox that walked within a few metres of me when in hide oblivious

After finding these Small Red-eyed Damselfly last year on Dukes Pond on patch which was the first known record for Northumberland and the furthest north I was well pleased to see at least a dozen today on the dipping pool.

Also found this Larch Ladybird today which was another new addition to the patch Ladybird list.

First light this morning at Swallow Pond.

This Little Egret was contemplating the day ahead at sunrise on Swallow Pond it being the best bird this morning + 2-3 Water Rail in front of the hide.

Water Rail in the gloom at 05:15 this morning on patch in front of hide 3 birds showing occasionally but skittish as usual nothing else of note.

Some nice Plums and Custard (Tricholomopsis rutilans) in Hadrians Wood this morning.