A family visit to NE England showed just how easy it is to see a lot of birds in the north-east of England.
A five minute stop at Budle Bay on 18 July showed that autumn migration was in full swing with a flock of 120 Redshank rødstilk, a few Whimbrel småspove and a Black-tailed Godwit svarthalespove along with the now usual Little Egrets silkehegre, 90+ Shelduck gravand and so on.
Stag Rocks was almost equally productive with plenty of seabirds passing, Sandwich Tern splitterne being one of the commoner species.
A short stop at Monkshouse pools gave two Avocet avosett, a Black-tailed Godwit svarthalespove and a Wood Sandpiper grønnstilk in addition to the usual good numbers of Lapwing vipe and other species.
A morning out at Salthome pools on 19 July showed just how industry and nature can in fact work. Somewhere in excess of 25 Little Egret silkehegre, 16 Avocets avosett, 50+ Black-tailed Godwit svarthalespove, singing Grasshopper Warblers gresshoppersanger, newly fledged Reed Warblers rørsanger and too many species I don't often see back in Norway to list (Great-crested Grebe toppdykker, Little Grebe dvergdykker and Pochard taffeland to name a few).
The rest of the UK stay was spent north of Newcastle, even though there was no further birding it was impossible not to notice 10s of Meditteranean Gulls svartehavmåke, flocks of newly returning adult Red Knot polarsnipe and a lot more besides.
Just too damn easy for my liking:)
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