Monday, July 23, 2012

C2C

More or less the route I took. There are some sections of the map where the serious hard-core mountain bikers went off road. This gps track is from one of them, I stayed on the road!


Starting at Workington
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Took the bike to the water for the traditional front wheel dip
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and then the start
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the guys and gal wot did it!
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we went via Hartside (I didn’t get done for speeding!!!)
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and Newcastle
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where they opened the eye just for us…
and finally at Tynemouth
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A grand weekend, very enjoyable, but very tiring. Wait a few months before asking me to do it again!

Sunday, July 08, 2012

July 8 2012

First thing this morning I went listening for Crex crex and didn’t hear a thing, other than Common Whitethroat and Yellowhammer. I have some recordings from the other night, but the bird was too far off for them to be of any use.

So I leave here a spend a pleasant couple of hours at Druridge. Long-eared Owl, Marsh Harrier and Reed Bunting all performing.

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And then, just up the road, and only a very short distance from where we had a female Red-backed Shrike two weeks ago, there is a rather smart male

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Sunday, July 01, 2012

July 01 2012

Twitcher!

A missed text received at 18:12 resulted in a phone call to Alan at 19:06.

I was back in the house to see the start of the Euro finals  having dashed down to Backworth and seeing (distantly) the female Red-necked Phalarope. It’s not my choice of birding but it sometimes happens that way!