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Mark Eaton
@markaeaton.bsky.social
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Scientist, conservationist, naturalist, birder. Secretary of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel & ornithologist for hire. Loves all of that plus dogs, music, leftwing politics, football, Northumberland, family. He/him.
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 2h
Oh yes, it’s an amazing venue
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 2h
Over 1,100 wildfowl north in 80 minutes at Seaton Pt this morning. 5 Velvet & c155 Common Scoter, 1 Pintail, c230 Wigeon, c80 Teal, c30 Mallard, 4 D-b Brent, c630 Barnacles. Also c85 Redwings in-off. #SoundOn #NEbirding
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PiedFly.Net @piedflynet.bsky.social · 4d
JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 1d
Impeccable taste. No John Grant - a change in genre for me next, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 1d
Siberian Chiffchaff at Bracken Hill Alnmouth this evening as I scanned the skies hoping for a northbound swift. Then a Common Sandpiper calling at Foxton Bends as I stopped to take this photo #NEbirding #birds
Sunset over Foxton Bends Alnmouth
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 2d
@divinecomedyhq.bsky.social at the Glasshouse this evening. The only band I’ve seen serve themselves mojitos from a cocktail trolley mid-gig. Fabulous music too…
The Divine Comedy, with cocktail trolley
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 2d
Hope you get another shot at it John. Last seen heading in the general direction of Tynemouth Priory🤞
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 3d
Needle-tailed Swift (think I’ll stick to the old name, as that’s the one I’ve used to dream about this bird for years!) at Scarborough Castle this morning #birds #rarebirdsUK
Needle-tailed Swift Needle-tailed Swift
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 3d
Selfie with Needle-tailed Swift (and smug grin)
Selfie and swift
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 3d
Further news
Mid-morning sun, Filey
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 3d
Update
Filey after sunrise
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 3d
A beautiful morning on the Yorkshire coast
Pre-dawn at Filey
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 4d
Edwyn Collins in Newcastle tonight - the penultimate date in his final tour 😢. A joyous celebration of a lifetime of wonderful music ❤️
Edwyn Collins
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 5d
Highlight at Boulmer this afternoon was a Black-headed Gull! But not any old BHG, this splendid leucistic bird that’s been around for a little while. Also 3 Curlew Sands, 3 Med Gulls, Wheatear etc #NEbirding #birds
Leucistic Black-headed Gull
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 7d
Two Knots, sheltering from the waves on Amble breakwater #NEbirding
Knots
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 7d
Also dodging the waves today were a flock of domestic pigeons in Amble harbour, which seemed to be playing a game of chicken, landing on the breakwater and taking off before each crashing wave! #birds
Pigeons and waves!
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 7d
Ringed Plovers dodging the big breakers crashing onto Warkworth beach this afternoon #birds #NEbirding
Ringed Plovers and big waves
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Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 10d
Reminder!
@jeroen-reneerkens.bsky.social appreciates reports of colour-ringed Sanderlings:
submit.cr-birding.org/projects/181/
Counts of adult/juvenile Sanderlings in flocks are great too.
Blog about the Greenland Sanderling project:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/10/04/t...
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 7d
My first Whooper Swans of the autumn, two on the Coquet Estuary this afternoon, their heads stained by a summer of feeding in peaty Icelandic water #NEbirding
Pair of Whooper Swans on the Coquet Estuary
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 12d
Just savour it being new. And Laughing Stock and his solo album. And enjoy them for the rest of your life.
And thanks, I know what I’ll be listening to today…
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 12d
It’s incredible, isn’t it. I’m jealous of you hearing it for the first time
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 15d
Glorious morning at Seaton Pt with lots moving - including species I don’t often see migrating i.e. 8 Rock Pipits, 7 Yellowhammers, 3 Greenfinches. Also c 225 Pinkfeet, c120 Skylarks, 16 Swallows, 39 Tree Sparrows, 3 G Wag, 38 Redpolls etc. Cetti’s Warbler & Lsr Whitethroat in the bushes #NEbirding
Sunny morning over Alnmouth Bay
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 15d
Thanks John
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 15d
Pied Flycatcher and Yellow-browed Warbler on the Snook, Holy Island - one easier to see than the other! #NEbirding #birds
Pied Flycatcher Yellow-browed Warbler
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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 15d
Goswick, Northumberland, and Cormorants resting on the engine block of the Pegasus - a paddle steamer which sank off Holy Island in 1843 with the sad loss of 50 lives northumberlandarchives.com/2021/04/26/t...
Cormorants sitting on the engine block of the Pegasus, surrounded by waves
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