Photo gallery - latest

Please contribute to the gallery either by posting your images on the BirdForum 'Durham Birding' thread or the BirdForum 'In and Around South Tyneside' 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 2011

Arctic Redpoll, Rainton Meadows (Ray Scott) Bittern, Salthome (Ian Forrest) Crossbill, The Stang (Adam Williams) Fieldfare, Salthome (Hilary Chambers) Goldeneye, Cowpen Bewley (Ian Forrest) Goosander (Mark Newsome) Great Spotted Woodpecker, Hawthorn Dene (Derek Charlton) Green Woodpecker, RSPB Salthome (Ian Forrest) Little Grebe, Chester-le-Street (Ray Scott) Marsh Tit, Tilery Wood (Ian Forrest) Mealy Redpoll (Derek Charlton) Shore Lark, Seaton Snook (Ian Forrest) Twite (Ian Forrest) Water Rail, Salthome (Hilary Chambers) Waxwing, Billingham (Ian Forrest) Woodcock, Seaton Common (Ian Forrest)

Autumn 2010

Barred Warbler, Hartlepool (Ian Forrest) Blyth's Reed Warbler, Marsden (Mark Newsome) Firecrest, South Shields (Adam Williams) Greenish Warbler, South Shields (Mark Newsome) Grey Plover, RSPB Salthome (Ian Forrest) Little Stint, NorthGare (Ian Forrest) Mandarin, Chester-le-Street (Hilary Chambers) Red-necked Grebe, Hartlepool (Ian Forrest) Scaup, South Shields (Mark Newsome) Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Salthome (Renton Charman) Sooty Shearwater, South Shields (Steve Egglestone) Sparrowhawk, Billingham (Ian Forrest) Water Pipit, Whitburn Steel (Mark Newsome) Wood Warbler, Hartlepool (Ian Forrest) Woodchat Shrike, Hartlepool (Ian Forrest) Bonaparte's Gull, Seaham (Stephen Addinall)

Summer 2010

Barn Owl, Coatham Stobb (Ian Forrest) Black Redstart, South Shields (Dougie Holden) Black Tern, Whitburn (Adam Williams) Black-necked Grebe, Saltholme (Ian Forrest) Curlew (David Kay) Dotterel, Crimdon (Ian Forrest) Red-backed Shrike and Dougie Holden, Sunderland South Dock (Mark Newsome) Redstart (Derek Charlton) Reed Warbler, SAFC Academy Ponds (Bob Freeman) Roseate Tern, South Shields (Steve Egglestone) Ruff, Salthome (Hilary Chambers) Spotted Redshank, WWWT (Steve Egglestone) Storm Petrel (Derek_ Charlton) Temmincks Stint, WWWT (M Newsome) Whimbrel, Whitburn (Steve Egglestone) Whiskered Tern, Saltholme (Ian Forrest) Wryneck, Hartlepool (Ian Forrest)