Aurora
Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights graced Northumberland again and it was beautiful sight to witness, especially over the Farne Islands. Not a lot to say really but I think the pictures will tell you all.
First Artic Tern of the year 2015
The first Artic Tern has now arrived at the Farnes, so it will not be long before they are all back and then the fun begins. The Artic Tern is one hell of a seabird and it will not be long before they start dive bombing and pecking all you lovely visitor's on the head. This will be not be for a while [...]
Turtle Rescue (Cape Verde)
I know I have done a few posts lately about Cape Verde and I promise this will be the last one for a while but I thought this post was really important to do. A really good friend of mine gave me a text one day while I was in Cape Verde to say that they had rescued a Loggerhead Turtle [...]
Cape Verde Shearwater
While I was in Cape Verde at the end of March this year I decided on another boat trip in the hope of seeing some whales or dolphins but it was never the outcome. What I did see was a few shearwaters flying past the boat and I asked the skipper if he could change his course and try and [...]
Red-Billed Tropicbird
I grabbed a quick weeks holiday before the season really gets going, and I took myself across to Cape Verde once again. Over the last few years I have been lucky to meet some really nice people and got to know some good little places to go to bird and a few boat trips thrown in for good measure. Sorry I [...]
Here we go
Well, the new season is upon us and we are all ready to rock and roll. We have had the MCA on board the boats doing our out of water inspections. This is where they check the hulls to see that they are free of damage, check the outlet valves to make sure they are in good working order and other bits and bobs [...]
Saving the Seal.
On Wednesday morning I received a call from my friend Andrew Smith, asking if I was down the harbour and if I was, could I give him a hand for 15 minutes. No problem at all I said, so off I went to meet him. He was beside the gun powder hut which is just the south side of the harbour and he was with a [...]
Little Egret
I received a call on Sunday from a friend asking me if I could come down the harbour as he had seen a bird that he was not sure about. When I arrived I saw a Little Egret in the harbour feeding. This is a first for me in the harbour. We do get them around the area but in the harbour was a nice little [...]
Moonbow
It was blowing a gale last night and with winds gusting up to 65/70 mph from the S.W. and I was not in a hurry to go out, but the skies were clearing so what do I do. I decided to watch the football but I must have dozed off (that's how good it was) when my phone rang. When I answered it was Gary [...]
Aurora and Little Auk
I got a call from Gary on Tuesday evening to say that he was out with his camera and there was a little showing of the Aurora, but not enough to drag me out of the house just yet. He also said that he might pop over to my house as it was blowing a gale, freezing cold and could do with a cuppa to warm himself up. 5 minutes [...]