Scientist, conservationist, naturalist, birder. Secretary of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel & ornithologist for hire. Loves all of that plus dogs, music, leftwing politics, football, Northumberland, family. He/him.
Mark Eaton
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My visit to Low Newton this evening coincided with some incredibly heavy rain. The Rose-coloured Starling took umbrage and went to sulk high up in a pine tree and refused to come out even when it stopped #NEbirding
When I returned a few minutes later her brood had increased to two. Result! 🙂
The magical sound of churring Nightjars last night. Six males over just a square mile of Alnwick Moor - the most I’ve had in the area before was three (and there were none until ~7 years ago). Included a bird on open, tree-less moorland singing from telegraph wires! #NEbirding
Mark Eaton
Absolute legends, Kraftwerk, at Edinburgh Playhouse this evening
Nice bit of breeding evidence for @ukrbbp.bsky.social … one of two broods of Shovelers at Buston Links this morning #NEbirding
Worried about dogs, Crows and overhead Great Black-backed Gulls, I popped into a rock pool as near as I could get it to a female Eider with one chick.
My first fledged Long-eared Owl brood of the year, two juveniles with their characteristic begging calls, on the edge of Alnwick this evening #NEbirding @ukrbbp.bsky.social
This Eider duckling at Seaton Point had been separated from its family yesterday and was pottering around, seemingly unconcerned, at the top of the beach. #birds #NEbirding #SuperSeabirdSunday
Is #SuperSurfinSeabirdSunday a thing? If so, here’s some Shelduck chicks catching a wave at Seaton Pt Northumberland yesterday #SuperSeabirdSunday #birds
Mark Eaton
So, as we head through the summer there’s still loads of rare breeding birds to be found and recorded… here’s some ideas youtu.be/50fFUafiVgY?...
