Winter Tours for 2011/12
As the end of the season approaches we want to let you know that we do operate throughout the winter doing different kinds of trips. Whether you want to see the Seals or take a longer tour around Holy Island. Then please just give a call or mail me as I would love to take you out. As the Grey Seal [...]
Summer’s Day
I was out with divers today, but this gave me a chance to bird watch all day. We were at the Knivestone this morning and as the divers were in the water I watched 96+ Guillemots fly east in an hour. I also saw 2 Arctic Skua's also flying east. The weather was just amazing today. The sea was like [...]
Testing the water
A seal pup was testing the water yesterday but her/his mother was not to far away in case it got into danger. We also saw a pup drinking it's mother's milk Pups are relatively helpless, and rely totally on their mother's milk for the first few weeks. The milk is more than 50 per cent fat, and the pups grow very quickly, depositing a [...]
Red-throated Diver
We have been seeing Red-throated Divers all week, but I have never been able to get a picture, so on Wednesday I decided to go back out at the end of the day, to see if I could get that elusive picture. Everytime I got close they either dived or flew away, but I did eventually get some picture's. On the [...]
2 day’s of great birds
We had a great day on Tuesday and Wednesday, with lots of birds passing. Yesterday we saw a male Peregrine hunting a blackbird near Staple Island. It was fascinating to watch this beautiful bird doing what it does best, but this time it did something that I have never seen before. It hit the Blackbird with so much power, that it [...]
Arctic Skua verses Redwing
A couple of Saturdays ago I saw a Arctic Skua attacking a Redwing just the east side of the Longstone Lighthouse. You will have to excuse my pictures as I was a bit to far away, overcast and it all happened very quickly, but you can the action as it happens. The Redwing escaped, but I don't know it survived.
SEAL of approval
I had some divers out at The Farne Islands last year and they said it was just fantastic playing with the seals, but it was not until they gave me a DVD of what they filmed last year that I realized what they were talking about. I here lots of stories about divers with the seals and I just take it [...]
Black Tern
We had a lovely Black Tern on Friday and I missed seeing it during the summer so I was pleased to get a chance to see it. We noticed a group of birds feeding just south of the Inner Farne and it was not until we got there that we seen a tern flying around.
Great end to September
It has been a beautiful week around the Farne Islands and Seahouses this week. The sun has shone all week,the sea's have been calm and the birds have been good. On Monday we saw our first female Long-tailed Duck on the north side of Big Harcar. We also saw 5 Arctic Skua's flying north throughout the day. On Tuesday our [...]