Sunset over Bamburgh Castle.
I tried for over a week to get a picture of the sun going down beside Bamburgh Castle and every night a cloud covered it, but it eventually it came out to play. I have taken some pictures with different settings, so if they are rubbish then please let me know where I'm going wrong.
As most birds leave others arrive.
After a mixed breeding season we are now near the end. The winter seems to drag on at times, but the summer just seems to fly by. Not that it has been must of a summer really. We had to contend with westerly winds day after day, rain, gales and sun. Mind the sunny days been few and far between. [...]
Sunset Cruise 2
Just a few pictures from Saturday night, as we watched the Wildlife, Jumplings and The Sunset Thank you to everyone who joined me. I enjoyed your company very much. Sunset with Holy Island in the background
Holy Island Tour
When we do our Holy Island Trip we have to work the tides so their is enough water to get the boat into the harbour. As our dates are set for the year we always pray that its good weather. So on Sunday afternoon we had a trip bound for Holy Island for a few hours and it was just beautiful. I love [...]
Baby Puffin
Puffins are just a beautiful bird and they must be one of the most pictured bird ever. I don't know what it is about the Puffin but they are lovely. When they arrive at the islands we see them more on the water than on the land and as they start to settle they start to look for their burrows. Puffins [...]
Tall Ship Returns
Over the last few weeks I have been helping a friend hauling crab and lobster pots. We have been starting at 2.30am and getting finished at 9.30am and then I rush home grab a quick shower, change and dash back down the harbour. It has made it a very long day but the one bonus has been the sunrise's, the birds, a minke whale and the passing [...]
Pole to Pole
Arctic tern's extraordinary pole-to-pole migration has been detailed by an international team of scientists. The researchers fitted the birds with tiny tracking devices to see precisely which routes the animals took on their 70,000km (43,000 miles) round trip. The study reveals they fly down either the African or Brazilian coasts but then return in an "S"-shaped path up the middle [...]
Tall Ship
I was lucky enough the other day to see a Tail Ship passing the Farnes. I was moored in the kettle at The Inner Farne when I first saw this beautiful ship pass, so I let go of the anchor and set of to get some nice pictures. She was called STAVROS S NIARCHOS of London.
Jumplings
Some people know this but others don't. Guillemot chicks are called Jumplings. Guillemots lay a single large egg on the bare rock. Almost everyone is a different in it's colour and pattern, and this enables the birds to recognize the egg in the dense groups around the islands. It's also round at on end and pointed at the other. The reason for [...]
Puffin Fight
Its a very busy time at the moment around The Farne Islands. Puffins are coming and going with loads of sand eels in their beaks, and sometimes fights break out. I did not see any sand eels on this occasion, so I don't know what the fight was about but it is usually over females or a good nesting site. They will puff themselves [...]