Photo gallery - latest

Please contribute to the gallery either by posting your images on the BirdForum 'Durham Birding' thread, or by e-mailing them to the website manager.  Any photos of birds in our recording area, common or scarce, are welcome.  Please ensure that the date and location of each photo can be determined from your post or e-mail.  Your images should be in JPEG format and ideally at least 800 x 600 pixels in size.

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Winter 2010

Black Redstart, Newburn (I Forrest) Yellowhammer, Cowpen Bewley (I Forrest) Black-neckedGrebe, Silksworth (I Forrest) Brambling, Cowpen Bewley (I Forrest) Fieldfare (Hilary Chambers) Great Northern and Black-throated Divers, Hartlepool (I Forrest) Nuthatch, Hawthorn (D Charlton) RBMerganser, Hartlepool (I Forrest) Redwing, Billingham (I Forrest) Ring-necked Duck, Cowpen Bewley (I Forrest) RNParakeet, Hartlepool (R Charman) Robin, Cowpen Bewley (I Forrest) Snow Bunting, Whitburn (D Holden) Starling (D Charlton) Tree Sparrow, Cowpen Bewley (I Forrest) WaterRail, Saltholme (A McNiff) Yellow-legged Gull, Rainton Meadows (M Newsome)

Autumn 2009

Lapland Bunting, Whitburn (Mark Newsome) Brent Geese, Teeside (Ian Forrest) Great Skua, South Shields (Mark Newsome) Bewicks Swan (Steve Egglestone) Jack Snipe, Salthome (Derek Charlton) Jay (Hilary Chambers) Grey Plover, Teeside (Ian Forrest) Eastern crowned warbler, Trow Quarry (Dougie Holden) Mediteranean Gull, South Shields (Steve Egglestone) Red-Backed Shrike, Dormans (David Kay) Sabine's Gull, South Shields (Steve Egglestone) Scaup, Rainton (Hilary Chambers) Slavonian Grebe, Salthome (Ian Forrest) Snow Bunting, Blackhall Rocks (Derek Charlton) Sooty Shearwater (Steve Egglestone) Starling (Hilary Chambers) Water Pipit, Whitburn (Mark Newsome) Water Rail, Salthome (Ian Forrest) Hooded Merganser, Salthome (Ian Forrest) Common Crane, Lamesley (Mark Newsome)

Summer 2009

Common Rosefinch, Elemore (Derek Charlton) Gannet, (Hilary Chambers) Kestel, (Andy Mcniff) Kittiwake, South Shields (Steve Egglestone) Little Tern, Crimdon (Ian Forrest) Mediterranean Gull, Whitburn (Mark Newsome) Osprey, Hurworth Burn Res. (Ian Forrest) Red Knot, Whitburn (Mark Newsome) Ring Ouzel, Weardale (Hilary Chambers) Roseate Tern, South Shields (Steve Egglestone) Sandwich Tern, South Shields (Mark Newsome) Swallow, Boldon (Mark Newsome) Swift, SAlthome (Ian Forrest) Whimbrel, South Shields (Mark Newsome)