A Few Weekend Leftovers

Having only now finished going through all the photographs I took over a busy weekend, I thought I would post some of them in a belated blog.   Frogs spawning, Grey Squirrel and Male Pheasant.   ...

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A Red Kite Day

A walk along part of the Derwent this weekend I had hoped to see, amongst others, some Red Kites, which seem to have been a bit few and far between recently.  Since their re-introduction back into the Gateshead area in 2004, this has...

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First warmth of Spring

I thought today, I would do a quick 3km walk along the cliffs from Souter Lighthouse to South Shields, with the weather looking to be sunny and reaching the heights of 10 degrees.  I got there around two hours after sunrise so the sun...

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Braving the rain

With it being another wet, dismal weekend weather-wise and the various forecasts contradictory, I flipped a coin to decide to go out.  To be honest, I haven’t been too motivated as much this year with the predictable weather of wet, windy,...

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