Off to the north-east for a couple of days while my youngest daughter's band records an EP in studios in Gateshead.
On the journey on the A1 near Rainton in North Yorkshire c.100 lapwing circling over a field next to the road.
Went for a long walk once in Newcastle, starting at The Quayside and walking downstream so very much an urban / industrial route. Numerous herring gulls, several lesser black-backed gulls as well as black headed gulls and a single great black-backed gull.
Other birds included: cormorants (several including 13 perched on river-side factory roof), kestrel, swallow, mute swan (3 adults and 2 juveniles on river by Millennium Bridge), blackcap (female eating elderberries).
On the evening while walking along the river, four goosander flew overhead above the Millennium Bridge heading upstream.