Never ever get enough of seeing this place!

I so love going down to 'our' lighthouse as my 3 yr old daughter calls it!

Sometimes to photograph it, usually at sunrise or sunset; sometimes to go photograph birds on the island; sometimes (in the past) for a run; sometimes for a bit of fresh air and to clear the head; and sometimes for a walk with me girls; Beth my wife and Izzy that 3yr old (you can see them both, just crossing over on the causeway.

Hoep you like this.
Will

WOW - such a nice bird to find

And I didn't even have to travel to Scotland to see this one!

Great few weeks of Bird finds and many firsts!

A Firecrest on my local patch

Short Eared Owl 5mins from work

My 1st ever Water Rail - out in the open to top it off

A wild Mandarin Duck in Tynemouth!

My 1st ever view and rubbish image of a Bittern.

My 1st Northumberland Hen Harrier

AND SOME OLDER IMAGES OF KINGFISHERS, AS I LOVE THEM SO MUCH!

'A night with Chris Packham'

and of course the week did finish off on a highlight (why did I not add this in the post below!!!!!!!!!!) with an evening with Chris Packham http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/   http://twitter.com/#!/ChrisGPackham

 Wasn't sure what we would see or hear or what time we would finish but thanks for a tweet back form Chris, (Cheers Chris) we were able to arrange babysitting for Izzy.
It was  a great night, a talk through some of his favourite images and the story behind them, some with natural support, and some with the help of man, machine, painted wood and string, all to get the perfect image, that ever for Chris, like the rest of us, this alludes him;........one day! Thanks for a good night Chris, and all for a good cause, supporting http://www.nwt.org.uk/

Oh, and on the way to the theatre we came across this, not something I wouldn expect to see in Newcastle, even on a Friday night - IRONMAN

Busy Week

Busy week this week at work and home (Izzy starting nursery, wow she's a growing up and Beth returning to work, nearly a year after we hear those horrid words). Only headed out on Tuesday after work and headed to Prestwick Carr for the opportunity to see and phtograph the Short Eared Owls - managed to grab a few images of these wonderful birds. Experienced an amazing rainbow after a heavy shower, just with I had my wide angle with me!!
We here's one of the images - hope you like

But got me to thinking, I've not seen my favourite bird  in quite a while and I'm missing that blue streak and shreaking call of the Kingfisher...

Need to go see if I can find one over the comming weeks I think, especially as I will not need to set the alarms so damn early. (i'll keep you all posted).

OK - Time to start again!

Hope you like my recent image of a Short Eared Owl in Northumberland - down low and hunting.. So so so great to watch this one and 7 others in one night!

OK finally back to it

Can now focus on the blog.

went in search of the elusive Kingfisher again today hoping to improve on last weekends results....sat in the hide for 2hrs in the pooring rain and decided to call it a day - and you can guess, as soon as I turned around I heard the call of a Kingfisher! There were 2, so I grabbed my camera and missed them, just this grabbed image to show. Oh well there's always another day