Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club
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Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club founded in 1958 produce a monthly bulletin and the annual county report Birds in Northumbria covering Northumberland, North Tyneside and Newcastle areas.
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This leucistic Barnacle Goose has been present since the autumn of 2025. Still a pitfall when viewed at distance for the unwary. This individual has a particularly delicate bill for a Barnacle IMO.... #BudleBay @ntbirdclub.bsky.social #NEbirding
January 17, 2026 at 7:36 PM
This leucistic Barnacle Goose has been present since the autumn of 2025. Still a pitfall when viewed at distance for the unwary. This individual has a particularly delicate bill for a Barnacle IMO.... #BudleBay @ntbirdclub.bsky.social #NEbirding
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Christmas can be an expensive time of year, so how about something for free?
The @scottishbirding.bsky.social and Scottish Birds Records Committee are hosting a FREE online conference over the evenings of February 24th to the 26th. Three talks per night and some real belters among them.
The @scottishbirding.bsky.social and Scottish Birds Records Committee are hosting a FREE online conference over the evenings of February 24th to the 26th. Three talks per night and some real belters among them.
December 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Christmas can be an expensive time of year, so how about something for free?
The @scottishbirding.bsky.social and Scottish Birds Records Committee are hosting a FREE online conference over the evenings of February 24th to the 26th. Three talks per night and some real belters among them.
The @scottishbirding.bsky.social and Scottish Birds Records Committee are hosting a FREE online conference over the evenings of February 24th to the 26th. Three talks per night and some real belters among them.
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A new report from the BTO has revealed encouraging signs for several of the UK's breeding songbirds, following a notably successful nesting season in 2025:
Fine summer brings breeding boost for UK songbirds, BTO reports
A warm, settled spring and summer in 2025 delivered above-average breeding success for many UK songbirds, offering a timely boost after the disastrous wet season of 2024, according to new data from the British Trust for Ornithology.
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January 11, 2026 at 7:16 AM
A new report from the BTO has revealed encouraging signs for several of the UK's breeding songbirds, following a notably successful nesting season in 2025:
Our next Indoor Meeting will be on Thursday 12th February at the Northern Rugby Club, McCracken Park, Gosforth. County Recorder Tim Dean will be speaking and explaining why he rates Colombia as his best ever foreign birding destination. Doors open 18:45 for a 19:15 start. Non members welcome.
January 11, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Our next Indoor Meeting will be on Thursday 12th February at the Northern Rugby Club, McCracken Park, Gosforth. County Recorder Tim Dean will be speaking and explaining why he rates Colombia as his best ever foreign birding destination. Doors open 18:45 for a 19:15 start. Non members welcome.
Wishing our members and all birders visiting Northumberland a bird-filled 2026.
If you have outstanding records for 2025 please submit to our county recorder Tim Dean as soon as possible ([email protected]).
NTBC are supporting the International Swan Census in Jan - details on website.
If you have outstanding records for 2025 please submit to our county recorder Tim Dean as soon as possible ([email protected]).
NTBC are supporting the International Swan Census in Jan - details on website.
December 31, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Wishing our members and all birders visiting Northumberland a bird-filled 2026.
If you have outstanding records for 2025 please submit to our county recorder Tim Dean as soon as possible ([email protected]).
NTBC are supporting the International Swan Census in Jan - details on website.
If you have outstanding records for 2025 please submit to our county recorder Tim Dean as soon as possible ([email protected]).
NTBC are supporting the International Swan Census in Jan - details on website.
We took our Indoor Meeting programme ‘on the road’ last night with a visit to Morpeth GC and were entertained by Tom Cadwallender presenting the birds of his Alnmouth patch of 36 years to a full house.
Club Chairman Martin Davison was very happy with 3 owl species on his return journey west!
Club Chairman Martin Davison was very happy with 3 owl species on his return journey west!
December 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
We took our Indoor Meeting programme ‘on the road’ last night with a visit to Morpeth GC and were entertained by Tom Cadwallender presenting the birds of his Alnmouth patch of 36 years to a full house.
Club Chairman Martin Davison was very happy with 3 owl species on his return journey west!
Club Chairman Martin Davison was very happy with 3 owl species on his return journey west!
Next Thursday our final Indoor Meeting of 2025 will be a one off at Morpeth Golf Club and will be a lively pre-Xmas affair with a talk from the legendary Tom Cadwallender on ‘Birds of Greater Alnmouth’. All welcome!
December 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Next Thursday our final Indoor Meeting of 2025 will be a one off at Morpeth Golf Club and will be a lively pre-Xmas affair with a talk from the legendary Tom Cadwallender on ‘Birds of Greater Alnmouth’. All welcome!
An engaging start to our Indoor Meeting Programme last week! Our guest speaker Javier Caletrio (@birdingclimate.sky.social) delivered a detailed talk on Low Carbon Birding and what it means for us as individual birders. There was some lively post-talk discussion.
#lowcarbonbirding
#lowcarbonbirding
September 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
An engaging start to our Indoor Meeting Programme last week! Our guest speaker Javier Caletrio (@birdingclimate.sky.social) delivered a detailed talk on Low Carbon Birding and what it means for us as individual birders. There was some lively post-talk discussion.
#lowcarbonbirding
#lowcarbonbirding
A profile of our monthly bulletin editor in one of his paid roles.
Meet the BirdGuides sightings team
Get to know the birders behind Britain's number one birding news service. Here, we speak to Alan Tilmouth:
Get to know the birders behind Britain's number one birding news service. Here, we speak to Alan Tilmouth:
Meet the BirdGuides sightings team: Alan Tilmouth
Get to know the birders behind Britain's number one bird sightings service, BirdGuides. Here, we speak to Alan Tilmouth.
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July 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
A profile of our monthly bulletin editor in one of his paid roles.
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Visited #Northumberland last week to view some of the fantastic birdlife on offer @ntbirdclub.bsky.social
July 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Visited #Northumberland last week to view some of the fantastic birdlife on offer @ntbirdclub.bsky.social
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Support Sian Berry’s #GoPesticideFree bill, scheduled for debate 25th April, which would ban local councils in England from using pesticides in public spaces. No more poison in our streets and parks! Contact your MP using the link below:
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April 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Support Sian Berry’s #GoPesticideFree bill, scheduled for debate 25th April, which would ban local councils in England from using pesticides in public spaces. No more poison in our streets and parks! Contact your MP using the link below:
pan-uk.eaction.org.uk/edm-urban-pe... @sianberry.bsky.social
pan-uk.eaction.org.uk/edm-urban-pe... @sianberry.bsky.social
We're a staging post for Icelandic Whoopers heading home. Migration is constantly mind-blowing!
Home time for the Whoopers 🥲 Beautiful cross country track under the cover of darkness for this one last night! Nene Washes to Keilder Water, Northumberland in 4 hours. #Ornithology
March 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
We're a staging post for Icelandic Whoopers heading home. Migration is constantly mind-blowing!
Spring is here, look out for Northern Wheatears and Sand Martins and listen for singing Chiffchaffs in parks and woodland anywhere. All three are March migrants and are arriving now!
March 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Spring is here, look out for Northern Wheatears and Sand Martins and listen for singing Chiffchaffs in parks and woodland anywhere. All three are March migrants and are arriving now!
Our January ebulletin is out to members this evening. We always welcome records (email [email protected]) and images for inclusion in the ebulletin (email [email protected])
March 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Our January ebulletin is out to members this evening. We always welcome records (email [email protected]) and images for inclusion in the ebulletin (email [email protected])
One of our committee is talking on his favourite subject Common Swifts tomorrow evening, all welcome.
March 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
One of our committee is talking on his favourite subject Common Swifts tomorrow evening, all welcome.
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Celebrating The Furthest Inland Breeding Colonies in the World,
Supporting efforts to help safeguard the breeding population of Tyne Kittiwakes and their environment,
Contributing towards efforts to help conserve
and enhance wildlife habitats along the river Tyne.
Supporting efforts to help safeguard the breeding population of Tyne Kittiwakes and their environment,
Contributing towards efforts to help conserve
and enhance wildlife habitats along the river Tyne.
February 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Celebrating The Furthest Inland Breeding Colonies in the World,
Supporting efforts to help safeguard the breeding population of Tyne Kittiwakes and their environment,
Contributing towards efforts to help conserve
and enhance wildlife habitats along the river Tyne.
Supporting efforts to help safeguard the breeding population of Tyne Kittiwakes and their environment,
Contributing towards efforts to help conserve
and enhance wildlife habitats along the river Tyne.
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It’s not quite spring, but it’s on the way. Which means it’s time to start recording rare breeding birds to help the work of the RBBP. Stay tuned through the spring & summer for videos and blogs with guidance on how you can add extra value to your birding #ornithology #ukbirding #birds
February 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
It’s not quite spring, but it’s on the way. Which means it’s time to start recording rare breeding birds to help the work of the RBBP. Stay tuned through the spring & summer for videos and blogs with guidance on how you can add extra value to your birding #ornithology #ukbirding #birds
Our 2023 county bird report is out to club members now. It will be available to purchase by non-members soon (details will follow). If you saw the Grey-headed Lapwing at Low Newton on its first day you may even be on our cover! #ukbirding
February 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Our 2023 county bird report is out to club members now. It will be available to purchase by non-members soon (details will follow). If you saw the Grey-headed Lapwing at Low Newton on its first day you may even be on our cover! #ukbirding
We attended an online forum with other bird clubs around the country tonight to discuss Youth Membership. Key question - what do young people want from a bird club? (Answers in replies please!)
#ukbirding
#ukbirding
February 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
We attended an online forum with other bird clubs around the country tonight to discuss Youth Membership. Key question - what do young people want from a bird club? (Answers in replies please!)
#ukbirding
#ukbirding
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A couple of colour ringed Rock Pipits on the beach at Low Newton today, green CK and green CP, both part of the Low Newton Rock Pipit Project. These are returning birds that winter here, both were ringed as littoralis in spring 2023. Last 2 pics are of green CP taken on 24th March 2023.
#NEBirding
#NEBirding
February 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
A couple of colour ringed Rock Pipits on the beach at Low Newton today, green CK and green CP, both part of the Low Newton Rock Pipit Project. These are returning birds that winter here, both were ringed as littoralis in spring 2023. Last 2 pics are of green CP taken on 24th March 2023.
#NEBirding
#NEBirding
Looking back 50 years ago today Northumberland had a roost of over 100 Corn Buntings at Bamburgh. Sadly lost as a breeding species around the turn of the millennium records of the 'fat bird of the barley' are extremely rare in our county today. #ukbirding
January 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Looking back 50 years ago today Northumberland had a roost of over 100 Corn Buntings at Bamburgh. Sadly lost as a breeding species around the turn of the millennium records of the 'fat bird of the barley' are extremely rare in our county today. #ukbirding
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“Birds of prey in medieval Britain relied far more heavily on scavenging human waste than previously thought, according to research that analysed more than 30 ancient bird skeletons.”
#Ornithology
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#Ornithology
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Medieval birds of prey thrived on human waste, study finds
Birds of prey in medieval Britain relied far more heavily on scavenging human waste than previously thought, according to research that analyzed more than 30 ancient bird skeletons.
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January 17, 2025 at 6:53 AM
“Birds of prey in medieval Britain relied far more heavily on scavenging human waste than previously thought, according to research that analysed more than 30 ancient bird skeletons.”
#Ornithology
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#Ornithology
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Looking for a #bird related volunteer opportunity to kick off 2025? Help us count our #fulmar survey photos to update our population estimates! Email me if you're interested.
#seabirds
#conservation
#arctic
#seabirds
#conservation
#arctic
January 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Looking for a #bird related volunteer opportunity to kick off 2025? Help us count our #fulmar survey photos to update our population estimates! Email me if you're interested.
#seabirds
#conservation
#arctic
#seabirds
#conservation
#arctic