The past few weeks have seen the puffins settling back into their Farne Island burrows off the Northumberland coast as they prepare for breeding season. Photographer Wil Cheung was eager to set foot back on Inner Farne after bird flu forced two years of having to capture its wonderful wildlife from the water. “It’s been …
Wildlife reserves along a Northumberland bay will be boosted by a £750,000 cash injection. The award from Defra and the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s Species Survival Fund will restore habitats, enhance biodiversity, and improve access on Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s reserves at Druridge Bay including Hauxley, West Chevington, and East Chevington. It is the latest leap …
It will soon be a bright and early start every day at a Northumberland estuary for wildlife volunteer Hilary Brooker-Carey. As it has been for the last 27 years. From 6am-7am mid-May to the end of July, Hilary will be observing and recording eider ducks in the River Coquet estuary. The eiders nest on Coquet …
Two new Tyneside hotels are now open for business – but it will be several weeks before they expect to welcome their first guests. The ‘hotels’ have been erected on top of the towers at the Gateshead side of the Tyne Bridge. It is hoped they will provide nesting ledges for kittiwakes when they return …
The French Connection has delivered news of a Northumberland osprey in its wintering grounds in Senegal in Africa more than 3,000 miles from the Kielder Forest nest where the bird hatched. French ornithologist Jean-Marie Dupart was surveying ospreys in the Saloum Delta national park, which has many miles of unspoilt waterways. He came across and …
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