White Tailed Eagle
Well well what can i say. Bank Holiday Weekend and we saw one of the most beautiful birds i have ever seen and one i would have never expected to see at The Farne Island a White-tailed Eagle. Now i know it's the largest UK bird of prey but as i have only seen pictures before i did not realize [...]
Puffins are still here.
Well i have never known the Puffins stay as long. We only seen 4 today but they should have gone a good while ago. Mind I'm not complaining though as they are still a great bird to see. I will give it a few more days and they will be gone for good. I will have to ask David Steel [...]
Puffins
Well the puffins are still here which is great as they seem to leave when the school holidays start so at least the kids get to see them. I think it was about the 27th July last year that they left so i just hope they stay a little longer. The weather has not been to bad over the last [...]
Harbour Porpoise
Today was just lovely. I took the boat out into the bay at 7am because of the tide. My first customers were not until 10.30am so i had to sit around for a while but this was not a problem as the sea was like glass. After i had cleaned the boat ready for the day i noticed something in [...]
Beautiful Day
Dunlin, Knot & Grey Plover Golden Plovers Turnstone What a beautiful day today. The sun has shone all day and the sea's have been flat calm. With a lot of the birds going now it's time to spot the odd rare bird passing. Over the last few days myself and my crewman Keith have been lucky to see some great [...]
Disgusted
On the 7th June a visitor to The Inner Farne killed an Artic Tern. I could not believe what i have heard. The man decided to take a cane from the ground which was marking birds and take a swipe that the bird hitting it on the wing thus killing it and leaving 3 chicks to fend for themselves. This [...]
Birds Everywhere
Another amazing day at The Farne Islands. Seas were calm and the sun was shining. Lots of the chicks have been born now and some are really big. The Inner Farne is buzzing at the moment with birds flying everywhere. If anyone has not been before then you must go before all the birds leave. You will just be amazed [...]
the farnes
The islands have been amazing latley. Birds everywhere and they are starting to hatch now. The weather has been great and its been a pleasure to be their at the moment. Jsut hope this keeps up.
Typical Bank Holiday
Well you can tell its Bank Holiday weekend as the wind arrived late Saturday evening. The weather was ok on Saturday but we woke up to alot of wind on Sunday and Monday. Some boats did go out on Monday but we did not. Fingers crossed the weather looks as though it calming down so we should get back out [...]