Snoro, to conservative
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Northumberland shorebirds facing 'most challenging breeding season yet' due to climate change and visitor recreation

Heavy rain, strong winds, and high tides over the last six months have meant that shorebirds have struggled to establish their usual nests

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/northumberland-seabirds-most-challenging-spring-29142180

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thebaywindowgirl, to random
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Short sleeves for the first time this year on #Today’s walk. Some of the lambs are looking quite chunky now.
#Northumberland #Walking #SheepOfMastodon #Defaidodon

Colour photograph of an upland landscape, with a grassy slope in the foreground and hills beyond. Three sheep are in the centre of the frame. The sky is blue.
Colour photograph of a sheep and lamb side on to the camera, facing right. Both have black legs and faces, and the adult has horns.they are in a grassy, hilly landscape.
Colour photograph of a wooden five bar gate set in a post and wire fence. Rough grass in front, a hilly landscape beyond. The sky is blue, and full of very puffy white clouds.

DavidTanner, to random
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Pretty green

thebaywindowgirl, to random
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So many sheeps enjoying the sunshine yesterday.

Colour photograph of a large woolly sheep suckling her two lambs. She is facing the camera, the lambs are tail-on, heads buried in her undercarriage.
Colour photograph, portrait format, of a group of two ewes and many small lambs. They are standing on the high point of a grassy slope. A hill rises steeply behind them.
Colour photograph of a white ewe standing side on to the camera, with a single lamb beside her. They are standing on a grassy slope. A very large hill looms behind them.

thebaywindowgirl, to random
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An actual warm and sunny day for my walk , though very windy on the tops. It’s finally starting to dry out underfoot too.

Colour photograph of a stretch of grassy moorland, with a rough track running away from the viewer to the right of the frame. A ridge of hills rises gradually beyond. Blue sky overhead.
Colour photograph of a wooden gate and stile, in a post and wire fence. It runs across a stretch of rough grass, with hills beyond. Blue sky overhead.
Colour photograph of a burn running away from the viewer, between grassy banks. Sheep graze on the right hand bank. There is a stonewall to the right, and a grassy slope rises on the other side. Hills in the distance. Blue sky overhead.

sarahdalgulls, to random
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DavidTanner, to random
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Up early to take @thebaywindowgirl to Alnmouth Station for her big day out in that there London. So I detoured to the beach with fantastic light, clouds and reflections.

Black and white image of a solitary figure and a dog on a reflective wet beach with clouds above.
Beach scene with a person walking a dog in the distance, wet sand, foreground rocks, and cloudy sky.
A beach with rippled sand and shallow water under a partly cloudy sky.

bencurthoys, to random
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Alnwick gardens from the air looks much more like a diagram of female reproductive organs than I had expected.

thebaywindowgirl, to random
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I’ve seen all the sheeps this afternoon

thebaywindowgirl, to random
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Got caught up in a bit of a traffic jam on the way home from work

DavidTanner, to BelieveInFilm
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Borderlands
📷 Ricoh FF10 🎞️ Kodak TriX

A black and white photograph of a rolling hill landscape with textured grass and a fence leading into the distance.
A winding footpath running through hilly grassland with a fence on the right side, captured in black and white.
A black and white photo of a grassy path with a fence running alongside it, on a cloudy day.

sarahdalgulls, to random
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going to brave the weather tomorrow and hike deep into Kielder Forest to look at a tree, wish me luck

sarahdalgulls,
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Looked at some very special trees in Kielder Forest, the last remnants of the Caledonia Forest in England

https://sarahdal.github.io/www/northumberland/2024/04/07/WilliamsCleuchPines.html

A tall Scots Pine emerging from younger trees on a steep slope

DavidTanner, to Bloomscrolling
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Fallen Magnolia flowers

thebaywindowgirl, to random
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It actually wasn’t raining when I went out earlier (it is now), but everywhere is thoroughly wet and muddy, with water pouring off fields and hills. It’s really not been much of a spring so far.

Colour photograph of a swollen burn running through a grassy valley between gently sloping hills. The sky is cloudy.
Colour photograph of a dry stone wall running away from the viewer. To the left of it is a muddy track. To the right are grassy fields, gently rising to hills. The sky is cloudy.
Colour photograph of a dramatically grey and cloudy sky looming over a grassy hill, which is dotted with sheep, and bisected by a stone wall.

thebaywindowgirl, to random
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I spent most of my walk today complimenting sheep on the excellence of their lambs

DavidTanner, to random
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At least all this rain makes for good reflections in the puddles 😀

McNige, to nature
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Dunstanburgh Castle
Once the largest castle in the county, it was built between 1313 and 1325 and was originally owned by Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, nephew of King Edward II.

In 1362, Dunstanborough passed into the hands of John of Ghent, the fourth son of King Edward III, who rebuilt the castle on a large scale. During the War of the Red and White Roses, Lancaster Castle was fired upon and destroyed.

DavidTanner, to random
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This morning’s walk in north Northumberland. Up Clennell Street from Alwinton.

Black and white image of rolling hills with grassy terrain under a cloudy sky.
Black and white photograph of a hilly landscape with a fence leading into the distance under a cloudy sky.
A black and white landscape with a curving road flanked by fences and a stone wall, leading up a grassy hill under a cloudy sky.

McNige, to nature
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Alnwick was raided on numerous occasions by Scottish armies. Malcolm III was defeated & killed here in 1093, & William the Lion was defeated & captured here in 1174. William Wallace also attacked Alnwick in 1297. Town walls and gates were constructed from 1434 onwards.
Named after the famous Sir Henry Hotspur (who has a football team named after him.. 😲)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Percy_(Hotspur)

sarahdalgulls, to random
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A variety of bridges on today's walk, and yes I did get wet feet rather than risk some of them

In a forest, a footbridge crossing a stream; the bridge was two logs with planks between them and a hand rail, but one log has gone and the whole thing leans precipitously to one side
The sunlight pours through the trees; another bridge in the forest made of two logs laid across the large stream. It sags a little in the middle, yes i did risk this one, it was nervy!
In the forest, a slightly more robust footbridge with concrete and metal railings crosses the stream. On the far side the ground between the trees is thick with wild garlic.

JohnDal, to photography
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The easiest way to get landscape photos to stand out is to stand somewhere different. As an ardent hillwalker/moor-rambler in my younger years, this wasn't difficult. For (UK) Northumbrians there's a magical little spot on the edge of the moors overlooking the Vale Of Whittingham from where these 3 were taken. Exact details available for a pint.

Wide expansive winter late afternoon view over Whittingham Vale, a scene of trees and fields with a blue sky with wispy clouds
Black and white shot of a leafless stand of trees with rig and furrowed field in the background, looking downwards from a hillside.

sarahdalgulls, to random
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Happy St Cuthbert's Day! Post your pics of Cuddy's (eider) ducks; they're named for the saint protecting them when he lived as a hermit on Inner Farne off the coast of Northumberland

sarahdalgulls,
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Usually they eat mussels, but ni Northumberland we have to put up signs asking people to stop feeding them chips as it weakens their egg shells

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30166120

And here's another lovely piece from Iolo Williams at the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0c8yxhy

JohnDal, to AncientHistory
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Some weathered cup and ring marks in Northumberland, on Rimside Moor.

A cup and ring carving in sandstone, viewed from the side
3 cup and ring carvings in a flat sandstone pavement.

tomchadwin, to Newfoundland
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A black female one-year-old chipped missing in Bellingham, Hexham, NE48 1AF. Please share as widely as you can.

https://www.facebook.com/share/a6cKXPfFsQJH9KjR/?mibextid=K35XfP

https://www.doglost.co.uk/dog-blog.php?dogId=190847

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