Michael Leakey

@swaledalebirds_ @BSBIbotany Indeed!

@MBL2 @BSBIbotany That would be these I imagine?😂😂😂😂 Found them whilst on a River management course last March. There were an awful lot too!

Went looking for Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem along the Swale yesterday as I’d not seen it on the river before. First site (unsurprisingly) drew a blank but success at another just downstream of Richmond. Only two plants and on the edge of an ever widening footpath. @BSBIbotany

@JuQuacker @teesbirds1 Sorry - misread the Barwit total as 187!

Cold and damp WEBS but having Seaton Snook to myself was mega😍 Birds only disturbed by the incoming tide. Dunlin 596 Grey P 84 Knot 32 Oystercatcher 187 Bar-T 12 Ringed P 6 Turnstone 6 Curlew 3 Sanderling 2 Redshank 1 Shag 4 Red-breasted Merganser 5 Red-T Diver 1 @teesbirds1

@JuQuacker @teesbirds1 Some great counts there Julie, especially Bar-tailed Godwit - a sterling effort!

@HairyDogsTail @nybirdnews Looks like Baird's to me

Photos Taken at Runswick Bay 3pm yesterday 2/3 along to east by visiting birder Jeremy Roberts @nybirdnews

@davebarlo @teesbirds1 Bang on for Baird's as far as I can make out

@teesbirds1 What do you think of this wader? An old friend of mine saw this bird in Runswick bay recently. He is a very experienced birder and thinks it is a Baird’s sandpiper. I agree with his conclusion but what do you think? Poor iPhone images though

@Bobby00651 @DurhamBirdClub @durhamwildlife @teesbirds1 Good find Rob. A couple of years since my last at BP Middleham.

A cracking Sanderling at a local roadside pool yesterday a surprise inland record 👍@DurhamBirdClub @durhamwildlife @teesbirds1

@Garbutt6Peter @teesbirds1 South Gare?!

⁦@teesbirds1 5 dotterel seen early morning at South gare

@BBS_birds BBS Surveyors still required in Cleveland. Let me know if you're interested @teesbirds1

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Well pleased to find this drake Smew on local patch at Bishop Middleham today, my 174th species recorded here since 2001 @teesbirds1 @nybirdnews

@Bobby00651 @whitburnbirds @bellchris76 @RossAhmed @DurhamBirdClub @durhamwildlife @teesbirds1 @BirdGuides Barnacle in there too 👍

Flight shot showed 10 Whitefronts including juveniles at Hurworth Burn this afternoon thanks to @whitburnbirds @bellchris76 @RossAhmed for ID help 👍@DurhamBirdClub @durhamwildlife @teesbirds1 @BirdGuides

@swaledalebirds_ @timthefruit That's brilliant Martin! I have fond memories of Padlock Terrace, conveniently located close to Brian Caffrey's barber's shop.

Amazing what you find when yr looking for something. Remember Wenlock Terrace Mike? 😂 @MBL2 @timthefruit A good year for quail apparently!

@sedgefred10 @WoodlandWildli1 @teesbirds1 An excellent report Fred, based on a huge amount of fieldwork. I dread to think what a commercial ecological consultancy would charge!

@sedgefred10 @teesbirds1 1200 Wigeon is the highest count of the season here so far I think Fred.

@sedgefred10 @cyp_toon Kerb, not kerb! Don't get all Amerikay Fred!

@sedgefred10 @pablohugelist Been over in Dumfries & Galloway for the week and we hardly had a drop of rain. Mind you, no YBWs either!

Pleased to find this adult Yellow-legged Gull at Bishop Middleham yesterday, my first on this local patch. Still a scarce bird inland in NE England @teesbirds1 @DurhamBirdClub

Perfect juvenile Spotted Redshank at Bishop Middleham this morning, bringing my five square kilometre local patch year list up to the 120 mark. Also still 2 Curlew Sandpiper and a Little Stint @teesbirds1

@sedgefred10 Sadly not - one of my Shildon weekends 😕

Fabulous late afternoon session in the Surtees Arms at Chilton Lane, one of County Durham's most deprived villages. Everything £3.50 a pint.