Photo gallery - 2010

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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Spring 2010

Wood Sandpiper, Salthome (Ian Forrest) White,Fronted Goose, Salthome (Derek Charlton) Wheatear Whitburn (M Newsome) Tawny Owl (Dougie Holden) Shelduck Shibdon Pond (M Newsome) Sand Martin, Salthome (Ian Forrest) Ring Ouzel Bollihope (M Newsome) Redstart, Tunstall Res (Colin Severs) Red Grouse, Weardale (Ian Forrest) Pectoral Sandpiper,Salthome (Steve Egglestone) Marsh Tit, Hawthorn (Steve Egglestone) Little Tern, Crimdon (Ian Forrest) Great White Egret, Dormans pool (Ian Forrest) Golden Plover Waskerley (M Newsome) Glaucous Gull, Blackhall Rocks (Derek Charlton) Cuckoo, Weardale (Hilary Chambers) Chiffchaff, South Shields (Steve Egglestone) Blue Fulmar Whitburn (M Newsome) Black,throated Thrush, Hartlepool (Ian Forrest) Black,headed Wagatil, Salthome (Ian Forrest) Barn Owl, Coatham Stobb (Ian Forrest) Avocets (Ian Forrest)

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)