Wildlife experts predict tough breeding season for shorebirds on the Northumberland coast

Endangered shorebirds on the Northumberland coast are facing a challenging breeding season.

The warning has come from staff of Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve (LNNR), working in partnership with Northumberland Coast National Landscape Team, the National Trust and Space for Shorebirds through the LIFE WADER project.

Senior reserve manager Andrew Craggs explained: “Since autumn last year the coastline has been battered by unseasonably high levels of rainfall and some of the strongest and most persistent winds and highest tides I’ve ever seen.