Lovely weather ~ Lovely weekend

Saturday 9th Feb
11:30am - As it was a nice day we had a wander up to a little place near shiel dykes and spent some time there as we havent been there for a few months, its a nice peaceful place to walk and theres never usually anyone else around, plus i get to see my fav little birds, lots of bluetits and chaffinches could watch them for hours. Later we decided to drive up to Harwood forest again to see if we could see the Crossbills there, we've been a couple of times in the past few weeks but been unlucky. Great...just 2 yards from the gate a little frog was just sitting there in the mud...minding his own buisness....seemed totally unconcerned at us walking past him. And then yes... just about 75yds further up the path where it forks to the left 2 crossbills at the top of a pine tree, could hear more but just got fleeting glimpses of them as they flitted from tree to tree, but, still lucky enough to see 2. Walked further into the forest and saw a couple of siskins + coal tits, but little else. Back at the car before we drove off a buzzard flew over the top of the trees then disappeared. Well worth the visit.
Made our way from there to rothbury-lee. One lane in particular filled with hedgerows and trees was absolutely alive with birdsong, little bluetits were chasing each other in and out of the hedgerows, it was so lovely to watch and very entertaining. There were coaltits - bluetits - greenfinches - chaffinches and 2 robins.

Sunday 10th Feb
10:30 am - On our way up the coast driving through widdrington - couldn't believe it...like a breath of fresh air...cute little lambs, isn't it fantastic - its that time again already, they are in the fields in widdrington just before the church, they weren't there yesterday when we went past so they must've been born early this morning. Didnt see any anywhere else today.
South chatton - 50+ lapwings overhead
Lucker pond - grey heron -10 mallards
Bamburgh village was really busy, and so to was the beach, but managed to squeeze into the car park beside stag rock to have a look around before it got any busier...there was the normal assortment of - curlews - turnstones - redshanks - eiders - oystercatchers - 1 grey heron - 1 shag - 3 linnets.
Monks pond - 8 greylags on the grass at the side of the pond - 30+ curlews - coots - moorhens - black headed gulls.
14:15pm - Stopped in Boulmer where the car park was also full, too many people for me, but had a look around - redshanks - curlews - oystercatchers - 1 rock pipit - robin - turnstones. Wanted some peace and quiet to have sandwiches and coffee, so headed off to see if the Hen Harriers were still about - and yes they were. Well...just saw the female today, but there is a male there too as we've seen him on other occassions. They never seem to fly together though, as each time we see them its seperately, but, always in the same place though.
16:15pm - On way home stopped at Cresswell pond, but what sun was left made it impossible to see anything clearly as we could only see silhouettes.
Roll on next weekend and hope the weathers as good.