Broken bins

Saturday 14th June
Started today with plans to drive over to a garden centre near consett and then to marsden rock to see the kittiwakes and fulmers, but I dropped my binoculars and they totally fell apart so we had to go shopping to buy a me a new pair. I always get strife when we go shopping as I apparently take ages to choose what I want...?
Got my new bins, but had to cancel the visit to consett for today so we went off to marsden rock instead so hub could at least see his seabirds 30+ heron gulls, kittiwakes + chicks, 40+ blackheaded gulls. Marsden has changed quite a bit since i was last there as a kid, im sure it was much more of a holiday place than it seems to be now..shame really.
Headed off homewards about 4pm but went up too coldgate mill instead of going straight home as we really like it there and havent been for a little while. Theres a field just before you reach the ford wheres there's been a few pairs of lapwings nesting the last few times we've visited and they now have their chicks..great. On the ford there was 1 dipper, in the woods along the stream 2 long-tailed tits, blue tits, songthrush, buzzard, blackbird, 1 kestrel. Nice day to stroll around the woods but it started to rain quite heavily around 6:30pm so thought it best to drive home, but, we did stop off in cresswell as the rain eased off a little. The pond was pretty empty apart from 3 grey herons, 5 shelducks and 3 malards. The heron werent there for long though as a couple of crows kept diving at them until they gave in and flew off. 10+ linnets, 3 goldfinches, 4 pied wagtails, 1 whitethroat, 1 female pheasant, 2reed buntings. Tommorows forecast looks good, but it will be a trip to see our dads first..fathers day.


Cresswell

Amble links

Coldgate mill ford