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Stewart 📖✒

6 months

Another year, another #NotebookAnnual . Thank you to everyone who commented, liked and retweeted my drawings over 2023, here's to a bird and wildlife filled 2024. #Northumberland See more at - Cheers! 🥂

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3 years

A year ago I said I would improve on my #Notebook output and I am glad to say I did. Here are the highlights of my 2020 year in my #NotebookAnnual . Some mega rare, some common, but all inspired me to put brush to paper. All within 30 miles from home. #Northumberland #LocalPatch

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3 years

@Perfectly_Green Oh yes, that plastic looks much better. Do you think it would improve mine? 🖕🤬

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2 years

Looking through an old diary of 21 years ago, 3 of these birds I've not seen since and might be unlikely to see again in the UK. Its interesting to compare the Pallid Swifts to recent birds... #notebooks #birdnotes #sketches #birdart

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2 years

If anyone wanted to know the difference between Whimbrel and Curlew... #Northumberland #WorldCurlewDay2022

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3 years

The #Walrus in Seahouses Harbour occasionally looked around before returning to its 'fly-tipped carpet' pose. No animal has looked so comfortable on such an uncomfortable bed... Keep safe big'un... #Northumberland

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4 years

Can you imagine the jolt when one of the first birds you lift the bins to this morning was an adult sum plum Pacific Golden Plover on Boulmer beach? Superb. @NTBirdClub @BirdGuides

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1 year

What a shame @BBC has cancelled #Autumnwatch . A great programme for raising awareness of our plummeting #biodiversity . Pity they never cancel any of the plague of sports progs that fill the schedules to the detriment of everything else. 1/2

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1 year

Come on #Birders get into the #notebook habit for 2023...Heres a few of the 50 ish I have,starting in 1984, plus I write them up into neater form afterwards too. I couldnt be without... #Fieldnotes

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4 years

My 2019 notebook annual...In 2020 I am going to increase productivity here! 😊👍 #HappyNewYear #Northumberland #Notebooks #Fieldnotes

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5 years

My 2018 birding #notebook annual... A quieter year than 2017, lets hope this year gives some good surprises. #fieldnotes #sketchbook #birdart

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6 years

My 2017 in #birding notebook form.... not a bad year at all.... #fieldnotes #notebooks #birdart #sketchbook

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3 years

Thread 1/6 : Drinking coffee in the living room first thing this morning when there was a commotion of Jackdaws outside. Suspecting a sparrowhawk I went to look and was surprised to see a Jackday, like an open umbrella pulled into an old rat hole below the feeders....

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4 years

You know hen you are #LockdownListing from your house and you are bored? Just then an adult Golden Eagle flies low over and away west...that! And I dont even live in Scotland! 😃 #gardenbirds #raptors Species 44 on my lockdown list. @surreywallcreep

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5 years

We still have a few Garden Tigers though... #teammoth

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6 months

@ChrisGPackham @crestiesam Maybe flip this. If @RNLI accepted blood money for torturing wildlife and causing a massive disturbance to other wildlife, people like me would no longer donate to them? And we vastly outnumber your lot, Gary.

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5 years

Was pleased to find a nice Yellow browed Warbler in our village yesterday morning before work. Not calling, but showing well in willows with 4 or 5 Chiffchaffs. #LocalPatch #FieldNotes #Notebooks #Northumberland

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2 years

We mentioned Ennion painting on brown paper, cardboard and old envelopes, so I found a bit of a box from Amazon and did the Hume's Warbler from Low Newton last week. It was a dull dark day so the dark paper fits quite well. #Northumberland #BirdArt #FieldNotes #Watercolour

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2 years

20 yrs ago today, I came home to find a dark, pale edged butterfly asleep on our buddliea. I went for a closer look and, no more than 2 ft from my nose, it's wings slowly opened to reveal a gorgeous Camberwell Beauty. Luckily our little pocket camera was handy. #Northumberland

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3 years

For goodness sake, this is thebird of the autumn for me, a Walrus in Seahouses Harbour! Oh and it's not Wally....

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4 years

Just a bit of a patch ticked all time lifer, thats all.... Howick Kittiwake colony 3.45pm #Localpatch #Northumberland @RareBirdAlertUK @BirdGuides

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5 years

The tale of a Giant petrel... #fieldnotes #seawatching #Northumberland

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2 years

@Shitlawns @WildChild_MissF Wow! that artificial lawn looks so much better than mine... As for maintenance, I bet yours takes more than mine... :)

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1 year

Here we go again! #NotebookAnnual time. 2022 has the biggest collection yet. To see bigger versions check out my blog 'sketches' in the side index. Thank you to everyone who commented, liked and retweeted last years annual, here's to a bird and wildlife filled 2023. Cheers!

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2 years

Its that time of year again with my #NotebookAnnual 2021. Birding was quieter than last year but still a few excellent birds seen in the county. All except the Dartford Warbler are from #Northumberland and for the first time a couple of non-birds are included. Happy 2022! 1/2

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6 years

Into the #Notebook you go...drawn immediately after observation, coloured this morning...might try another one later... #fieldnotes #birding #Bluethroat #Northumberland

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3 years

No #fieldnotes , too much panic. This is from my photos back home. My eyes are getting worse, I'll need to do bigger drawings soon... Northern Mockingbird. Newbiggin #Northumberland

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1 year

Grey headed Lapwing, Low Newton #Northumberland isn't the only top find on patch by @Gary_D_Woodburn (Thread)... #fieldnotes #fieldsketches #birdart #notebooks #rarities

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6 years

This Barn Owl from our kitchen window earlier was a right pain, keeping me from my tea...😉 #gardenbirds @Natures_Voice

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7 years

The tale of a Scops Owl up north... #owls #twitching #Sunderland #notebook #FieldNotes #blog #Natureblogger

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3 years

OH. MY. DAYS. 🤯 #teammoth #ItsaClifden

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2 years

Its Bluethroat week on my #localpatch ! #Northumberland thanks to @AmandaFall10 👏

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4 years

Our Barn Owls still putting on a show... Page 1 of a new notebook. I am always anxious starting a new one, so just decided to bash on. #Notebooks #FieldNotes #Owls

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4 years

The autumn that keeps on giving! Self found Desert Wheatear at Boulmer. I was going to go to Holy Island too but decided to stick with the #LocalPatch . It only takes one bird to save a quiet morning. #Northumberland

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2 years

Here he is, dull pics through the kitchen window but not so dull as to tone this cracker down. Brambling. #Northumberland

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5 years

A few of my Tree Sparrows at the feeders pic taken through kitchen window. #GardenBirds #Northumberland

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5 months

Kestrel along our lane last week. #fieldsketch coloured just now.. #birdart #fieldnotes #sketchbook

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4 years

Put some #notes down in the book this morning of the Asian Desert Warbler, but only did the #sketch at home. I am trying to give the impression of how I saw it, in thick cover but its been a tricky thing to do. I might try a better one later... #FieldNotes #Notebooks

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5 years

Masses of Painted Ladies coming in overnight and today here in Northumberland. 70+ in two gardens here now.. lovely.. #butterflies @MigrantMothUK @savebutterflies

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2 years

Oh my lordy. A family of 4 #Orca have just taken a seal as a light lunch, and eaten it, about 30 feet off the rocks at Auckengill! A truly unbelievable sighting... #Caithness #Cetaceans

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4 years

A Sooty Tern for my #notebook . #Notes #FieldNotes #BirdNotes

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8 months

Ive hoped for this in the garden for 14 years! Finally a cracker of a male Firecrest lit up the dull wet pig sty corner . I went for the camera but it was gone when I got back. Memory #fieldsketches straight after sighting. #Northumberland

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2 years

American Black Tern along the road at the Long Nanny, #Northumberland this morning, for a while I had it all to myself, displaying and being aggressive to the Arctics. What a smashing bird. Also here, 16 Little Terns, 1 Roseate and a Little Gull. @BirdGuides @RareBirdAlertUK

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4 years

That Lammergeier is allowing too close an approach. Never has a bird looked more lost. Poor bugger should be clap netted, crated and sent back to the mountains where it belongs...

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4 years

Its tricky doing #seawatch drawings because the birds are often small in the view so this is my impression of the Sabine's Gull I had with Kittiwakes last Wednesday .... #Notes #Sketches #Gulls

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7 years

No frame filling images for me, bird too distant but good scope views. #fieldnotes #birdart #fieldsketching

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6 years

Some #fieldnotes of the White-winged Scoter at Musselburgh today. Great views with the scope too in good sunlight with 70+ Velvets. #Fieldsketches #BirdArt #Notes @_BBRC @birdguides_news @RareBirdAlertUK

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3 years

Doing the notes... #Notebooks #FieldNotes

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3 years

A work up sketchy notes from last nights star bird. Things I noticed and were pointed out by others at the time... help from the lads vids and photos too... #Northumberland #LocalPatch #Seawatching

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1 year

When you step out into the garden and your final #LocalPatch tick of the year is just waiting for you...4 Waxwings. 😃 #Northumberland

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2 years

One of my all time best birds was the Black Lark at South Stack, Anglesey. A truly mythical bird that just leapt from the pages of history books. I couldn't believe the news when the pager kicked in to mega alert... #fieldnotes #birdart #sketchbooks #twitching #HastingsRarities

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4 years

What a stunner this tiny brown moth is up close. Used to be called Twenty plumed Moth but as its got 24 plumes, it is called Many plumed Moth these days. #teammoth

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2 years

People were bored with too many photos of the Black browed Albatross at @Bempton_Cliffs blocking their timeline so here are some notes...from my photos... 😊 #albatross #seabirds #fieldnotes #birdart #Yorkshire #twitching

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3 years

Little Terns at Boulmer last night... #FieldNotes #FieldSketches #Northumberland

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7 years

Paid a visit to Druridge Pools today and was lucky enough to see the Spotted Crake within 5 minutes! My first for donkeys years. @NTBirdClub

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4 years

Oh man Im not one for retweeting me own tweets but the crack is @_BBRC have accepted our Giant Petrel and now its off to the #BOURC as it would be new to the British list! I saw it and still cant believe it!😱 @Mark_A_Eaton @whitburnbirds

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5 years

The tale of a Giant petrel... #fieldnotes #seawatching #Northumberland

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3 years

Wishing my Twitter friends a very Merry Christmas.... #GodBlessUsEveryOne

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4 years

Got to love a Bluethroat on Boulmer beach this afternoon. #LocalPatch #Migration #Northumberland

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2 years

Curlews striding around the field behind us this week... #FieldNotes #Notebooks #Sketching #Northumberland #GardenBirds #Waders

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1 year

Thats the last time Im coming to Scotland. Its been red hot everyday and the cottage is infested with Pine Martens. We cant get a munutes peace. 😄😉👍

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2 years

The other day I said I wouldn't report a Hen Harrier. Today this cracker just appeared in my bins view as I scanned stubble for a finch flock! A very dark bird, not big so I think a young male. Watched in sunshine for 10 mins. An absolute knee trembler on my #localpatch . 1/2

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3 years

The lovely Wilsons Phalarope from Monday... #FieldNotes #Sketches #Birdart

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1 year

Today's excitement, an Alpine Swift at Bamburgh, exactly 19 yrs to the day since my only other UK bird at Scarboro... Lucky 17th March... #Northumberland #Birdart #FieldNotes #Sketchbooks

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2 months

Great to see that chap in Wales uplifting his @Shitlawns and putting real turf back. Maybe hes had an epiphany? #GardenersWorld

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6 years

There are so many similarities between the Hartlepool Little Swift sighting and this one I saw in Notts in 2001. I drove down over night arriving at 4am. The bird didnt fly til 8am! Great birds... @birdguides_news @RareBirdAlertUK #Fieldnotes

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2 years

A Woodcock emerging at dusk to forage in the fields... #Northumberland #BirdArt #Sketchbook

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4 years

My 6th Woodcock of the day. Wandering across the road outside our village this evening.. #LocalPatch

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2 years

The Eastbourne Robin brings back memories of this bird near Grimsby. Not a bird I ever expected to see in the UK. It came to an unfortunate end by Sparrowhawk a short while later.... #FieldNotes #Notebooks #birdart

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2 years

A short Pied Wheatear blog post... #blogging #Northumberland #Rarities #Sketches @NTBirdClub

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6 years

The final curtain of birding in 2017 into the start of the new #notebook for 2018. Ross's Gull, Longhoughton Steel . Drawn back at home from @benjsteel photos and memory... #notes #gulls #Northumberland @NTBirdClub @RareBirdAlertUK @birdguides_news

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4 years

Catching up with #Notes now things have slowed down. The Bluethroat at Boulmer whilst not a mega, is certainly rare enough these days, a real local highlight. #Sketches #BirdNotes #Notebooks

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3 years

After the Red necked Stint yesterday I did some notes from memory as my photos were toss. After seeing the top images by @sibechat @Yellowbrow @jrmjones etc I realised my notes were no better. I thought I would try again using all the pics from twitter. #Notebooks #birdart .

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5 years

Some small notes on the #Northumberland Baillons Crake. I've not had time to post them until now... #fieldsketch #fieldnotes

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4 years

Didn't like my last Brown Shrike, its was too overdone, so here is another in the #Notebook . That's more like it, I'm no good at over thinking stuff too much... #Northumberland #FieldNotes

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3 years

🌞 😃😃👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Finally our brothers from the Emerald Isle save the day! (Excuse the state of the place...) We've got heating and everything! 🥺

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6 months

Blackcap on apples in our garden this morn... #Northumberland #Fieldsketches #sketchbooks #Fieldsketching

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1 year

Yesterdays Redstart, Cullernose Point #Northumberland ... #BirdNotes #LocalPatch

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2 years

On the James Martin tv prog now, the foraging lady Alicia has just said that before going blackberry picking you should have a tetanus jab as the thorns can be poisonous. I seriously have no idea how Ive survived this long. 😐

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2 years

A county tick... #FieldNotes #sketches #birdart #Northumberland @NTBirdClub #birdblog

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9 months

South Gare Brown Booby #fieldsketches with colour added later. Hopefully get time to work something up a bit later. #fieldnotes #notebooks #BirdersNotebook #Rarebirds #Twitching

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8 months

Watching thrushes through our kitchen window, a small bird dropped in. I thought wheatear? With the scope, its a Siberian Stonechat! On the window list! #gardenbirds #localpatch #Northumberland .

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3 years

6/6: I looked expecting to see the Weasel running around the drive but there was no sign, then in this photo it looks like it has been lifted off by hanging on to the Jackdaws feet! I hope the tale ended well for the Weasel... What an morning! #mammals #mustelids @mammals_uk

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4 years

Pleased to catch up with the Buff-bellied Pipit at Amble this morning. A new British bird for me and my 5th new bird for #Northumberland this year.

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6th June #30DaysWild . This is the view of the Business Park from our office today. A few years ago it was mown every June when Skylarks were nesting, wiping out 3 or 4 pairs. I made a few calls to the site managers who agreed to mow in Autumn but now even thats stopped. Result!

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Another fine, warm day in #Caithness . Displaying Dunlin and sum plum Great Northern Divers then rounded off by a brace of bull #Orca doing a distant pass of the bay. All from the holiday cottage. #FieldNotes #Sketchbook

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2 years

Amazed and pleased that my Ring Ouzels will be seen alongside the works of so many brilliant artists. Many thanks for the opportunity. Please check out the book @_BTO #IntoTheRedBirds It will be available early October.

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2 years

Norway @visitnorway @norway You have shown your true colours now. The more people that boycott you, the better I say. This animal delighted people everywhere, We had wardens keeping people a safe distance away, but you've destroyed it. What a disgrace you are.

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Not much bird news in Northumberland this afternoon, can’t think why! #walrus delighting the crowds at Seahouses this afternoon. What an amazing beast! #Northumberland @WildlifeMag @BBCSpringwatch @NTBirdClub @NTFarneIslands

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Just had this 'lawn care' leaflet through my door. Have they seen my lawn!😂 They should call themselves 'biodiversity and environmental eradication experts' Er, no, Ill keep my money, thanks. And my bees, hoverflies, wasps, worms, tree sparrows and flowers ta. #wildlifegarden

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3 years

How it started, and how it ended up. Sometimes a bit of luck goes a long way... #Nightjar

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2 years

A 5 Tern morning could have easily been 6 if I had bothered to look for Common Tern. There were Arctic, Little, Sandwich, Roseate and American Black at the Long Nanny #Northumberland this morning. #Fieldnotes #Fieldsketches #birdart #sketchbook

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6 years

@CA_TimB @ChrisGPackham Mr Boner I have lived in the countryside all my life, and I want nothing to do with your destructive killing kind. Im an ordinary working member of the public and I will vote for and support anyone who has positivity towards our native wildlife and the environment.

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2 years

A Brambling bobby dazzler at our feeders just now... #Northumberland

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8 years

Just vandalised the holiday visitors book...it's better than praising the quality of towels 😊 #Suffolk #Butterflies

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4 years

Ive put some pics together of our #wildlifegarden . It is bright and colourful and it looks like we are gardeners but we really aren't. This is lazy gardening. No chemicals, some hand weeding but loads are left and infrequent grass cutting is the mantra.. @LGSpace @MeadowInGarden

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2 years

The tale of the Bluethroat... #blogging #scarcebirds #localpatch #Northumberland #birdart #fieldnotes #NatureJournalling

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8 months

Female Northern Bullfinch last Thursday in our garden for a short while before moving off to the wood. #Northumberland #BirdArt #FieldNotes #Sketchbooks #Birding

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4 years

On @BBCSpringwatch tonight @ChrisGPackham showed some wasp specimens from the #Naturalhistorymuseum including one of the Sabre Wasp Rhyssa persuasoria. This one was caught in our kitchen and released after a snap.

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@HollyWildChild @LGSpace @savebutterflies @BC_Highland @Butterfly_bros @BumblebeeTrust @B_Strawbridge @hedgehoghugh @WildflowerNurs @DaveGoulson @BeccasButterfli My garden no mow patch.

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5 months

Thats our #Fife week over, and we are back home in just over two and a half hours. Vandalised the cottage visitors book before leaving...

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2 years

On Sunday 17 Great crested Grebes were on the sea at Alnmouth, with one pair in winter plumage displaying with head shaking and presenting seaweed. #Northumberland #BirdArt #FieldNotes

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