Sarah Dalrymple

@sarahdalgulls

Seabirder and gull fan in north-east England, my posts here are entirely my own also active at @sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social on mastodon

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Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· 28d

Brilliant - Emblehope Moor has been bought for rewildling. A superb, lonely spot of moorland deep in Redesdale #Northumberland www.youtube.com/watch?v=TofJ...

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· Jul 13

lovely AI interpretation of flagstones on freegle this morning

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· Jul 12

Headed off to NE lakeland to climb a mountain this morning, gorgeous weather. Such a contrast to Northumberland, you never have to worry about losing the path and there's always someone to chat to.. #Cumbria #Hiking

A view down the valley of Bannerdale Beck. We are looking down from the rocky, steep slope at the head of the valley, the green u-shaped valley below stretches off with the Bannerdale Beck visible weaving along the bottom. In the distance is farmland and on the horizon, the hills of the North Pennines

From the summit of Blencathra (868m) the sharp ridge of Saddleback drops away to our right with a path along the top. Before us lies North Lakeland, rounded hills with patchwork of farmland between them, and two lakes - Derwent Water and I think Ullswater - can be seen between the distant hills. The sky is a hazy, hot blue, with a few fluffy white clouds.

Looking down the other way from the summit of Blencathra at the ridge that leads down to Scales Fell, down the steep slope zig-zags a broad, clear, rocky path, forking a few times as it runs along the ridge.

Scales Tarn sits in a bowl at the base of the crags that descend from Blencathra. Broad footpaths lead to it from four directions. Behind it the ground rises up again to the ridge of Bannerdale Crags, and still more hills crowd behind.

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· Jul 10

Took the car to the garage up the coast yesterday and walked 16km back to the house. it was FAR TOO HOT and also there's nudists in the dunes on Druridge Bay, who knew (probably everyone except me) got the bus back to pick up the car

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· Jul 6

@britishspiders.bsky.social is it possible to say what sort of spider builds web like this?

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· Jun 28

Very nice to head up the Cheviots from the Scottish side for the first time, get to look at some different valleys this time. The 15km Pennine Way loop from Kirk Yetholm. #Hiking #Cheviots

Under a blue sky, a grassy path cuts through bracken alongside a wire fence, with trees down in the valley to the right. We're looking towards a knobbly green hill on the horizon in front of us

A valley green with bracken and grass, dappled with shade as the sky is blue with big white clouds passing overhead. A dirt road winds down the valley floor, into the distant hills and farmland on the far horizon beyond

The Stob Stones, standing stones with an ancient history, standing on some dry grassland. Sheep are around and on the stones, their white faces staring at me

We're standing with a stone wall to our right, which cascades down the steep grassy slope ahead of us, and then climbs up the slope ahead with a single zig zag about halfway up. There's large fluffy clouds in the blue sky, and the hills ahead are bumpy and dappled green and lighter yellowy-green

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· Jun 28

Great walk today, but fascinated by the collie dog stickers on the windows of this abandoned cottage

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· Jun 25

Woah! I'm a bit jealous

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· Jun 24

Can't complain

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· Jun 22

It was 38°C.. Also do you remember going on holiday for 3 weeks and only taking 24 photographs

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· Jun 12

@britishspiders.bsky.social look at this beauty! Can it be ID'd at all?

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· Jun 10

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· Jun 8

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an infrared (black and white) view inside a artificial puffin burrow, a black box with a round entry tunnel on the far side. The ground is covered with dried grass and feathers, and a puffin sits side on to us, looking down at a small, fluffy face with a bill peaking out from under her wing

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· Jun 4

Sunshine and showers walk in Coquetdale, up to Bloodybrush Edge and Yarnspath Law via the Shivering Stones #Northumberland #Hiking

A dramatic sky of white fluffy clouds with black bases and blue above, hanging over green and sunny rolling hills.

An old track leads away down a small green valley. Below, the track follows the river towards a clump of trees. The green hills on the horizon have a track rising up them too. Clouds in the sky are grey and white and in between; a rain shower can be seen falling somewhere distant beyond the hills

The "Shivering Stones" A tumbly outcrop of grey rock sits in a patch of grass and plants surounded by heather, on a hillside under a heavy grey sky

On the valley floor, we're looking over a wire fence at a beautiful meadow full of wildflowers. Green hills rise up either side, and there are small clumps of trees here and there, particularly around a distant building. The road winds along the valley floor and another track leads up on the hills opposite. There are patches of blue sky amongst the white and grey clouds.

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· Jun 3

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Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· May 31

Lovely bird to see this morning, dotterel on Lynemouth beach #NEBirding

Back-of-camera shot of a brown wading bird huddling by some rocks on a beach

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· May 30

How cool is this - the Whin Sill visible in a limestone quarry

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· May 30

Looked at some rocks and old things with the old man

the arch of a large tumble-down lime kiln. A stone building has a brick arch, under it is more stonework down to a layer of bricks at ground level with two smaller arches. There's a lot of fallen masonry and rubble.

A big stone limekiln on the side of a hill with two arched entrances on the left, and a slightly larger one obscured by trees on the right. A large crack leads up from the left hand arch to the top.

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· May 30

Gorgeous morning so I couldn't just sit in bed drinking tea and went for an early morning walk round the local patch, 32 species and bumped into another local birder for a very long chat which was lovely! #northumberland

Bloody cranes-bill, a low bush with lovely purple flowers, growing out of sandy ground. More flowers in the distance and a wind turbine in the clear blue sky

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· May 29

Best email subject I've ever received

a photograph of the top row of Microsoft Outlook. We can see the subject line of an email, which is
"Northumbrian Spiders are calling you"

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· May 29

Egg thieves reportedly active in the North East, the one species we'd all be happy to see go extinct. It's also been a long time since it was a couple of weirdos in stupid hats, with organised crime potentially making them very dangerous

North Northumberland Bird Club Group
Derek Wood · 7m · 🌐
After recent events at the Seaton Carew Little Tern site, we believe that egg thieves are operating in the area. Two individuals were seen at the prom wall at 1am Tuesday armed with thermal imager and laser. They withdrew as the warden approached. Suspicions were confirmed when this evening I found a rake concealed. Inside the site close to the prom. I understand similar issues have been reported as far away as scaling dam. Given that the imager and laser would retail at £2k it smacks of organised crime. Could I ask that you remain vigilant and report any suspicions to the police. Extra eyes looking out for these people may be a deterrent in itself.

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· May 28

Nice little treat coming back into Amble harbour today, a pod of several bottlenose dolphins including a few that had been a little way up the river #Northumberland #Dolphins

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· May 24

I'd planned to go up The Cheviot today, but got as far as Mounthooly and didn't feel up to it. I turned right, and headed up The Schil instead, for a lovely day in the College Valley and up on the Border Ridge. #Northumberland #Hiking #Cheviots

The road along the College Valley, to the north of The Cheviot. The patched tarmac lane curves to the right, while the valley itself is ablaze with the yellow of flowering gorse, small trees poking out of the valley bottom everywhere. Steep grassy hills rise up out of the valley, their lower slopes are blanketed with either natural broadleaf growth, or clumps of forestry plantation. The sky is blue with high fluffy white clouds.

Jagged grey rocks stand tall out of a pile of smaller stones, perhaps the remains of an ancient cairn, on the summit of The Schil, surrounded by grass and patches of blaeberry.

an old five-bar hurdle (a gate that sits in slots rather than on hinges) with tall fenceposts either side, attached to which is an old and rusted deerfence. It leads to a gently sloping grassy hill, with scruffy patches of yellow rush. More green hills with patches of woodland in the distance, leading away to the horizon under the blue sky with high white clouds.

The grassy slope stretches gently ahead to yet more grassy hills, plantation forestry peaking out from a dip. Dominating the horizon is the bulky massif of The Cheviot, with the right hand side dark brown with heather and bog.

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· May 22

It's that time of the year again #Eider #ducklings #northumberland

3 female eider ducks in a marina with about 20 ducklings in a creche

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· May 18

A late start and grey weather, so just a little 15km walk around some hillforts above the Breamish Valley. Love walking around these, so much history. Today I was wondering what the residents of these ancient sites called where they lived? #Northumberland #Hiking #Hillforts

A view down a grassy slope to a dip between two hills opposite, in which sits a clump of broadleaf trees. The sky above is grey, and over even more distant hills, heavy rain is falling

A grassy field strewn with bumps and lumps and rocks. Further back, a hilly ridge with patches of partly-felled forestry

A view down the Breamish Valley, a steep-sided valley with a river and a single track road snaking down. We're looking at a fork, the road follows a narrow stream to our left while the larger river Breamish flows down from the right. The steep slopes rising up either side are covered with scree, patches of heather, clumps of gorse, and stubby woodland.

On a flat area of grass at the edge of a steep sloped valley, the earthworks of a hillfort - mounded earth in two concentric rings. An area of broadlead woodland stands to the left, and the landscape sweeps down to green countryside beyond.

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· May 12

honestly getting obsessed with family history for a bit made me really good at stalking people who passed away 100 years ago. Here's the most stupid death of a relative I found, death by clog. He was only in his early 20s. Inquest held at his Uncle's pub (my ancestor)

An inquest was held on Thursday last, at the Queen's Head, Gallowgate, in this town, on the body of a young man, named Robert Carnaby Dobson, an apprentice to Robert Blakey, white-smith, Percy Street, who was killed on Tuesday evening. It appeared that a labourer, named George Hall, and his wife, were quarrelling, and a number of persons collected round to witness the affray; some observations made by the crowd to Hall, caused him, in a moment of irritation, to throw his clog at the by-standers, which struck the unfortunate young man on the head, and caused his death in a few hours. Verdict,—Manslaughter.

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· May 12

searching on www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk, and the details of the inquest are in the Irish Weekly & Ulster Examiner of Sat 18 July 1936. Looks like they never found the cyclists who were thought to have thrown the stone!

WOMAN KILLED BY A STONE

The unsuccessful efforts of the police to trace a party of cyclists, one of whose number was alleged to have thrown a large stone down a deep chasm known as Alum Pot, Ingleborough, Yorkshire, killing a woman, was mentioned at the inquest at Giggleswick on Monday.

The inquest was on Miss Mona Binks, aged 44, a school teacher, of St. Annes Grange, St. Annes Lane, Leeds, who belonged to the Pennine Cavers Club, Leeds.

Evidence was given that while being at the foot of a rope ladder 200 feet below the surface, she was struck by a large stone, which crashed down the shaft.

SILHOUETTE AGAINST THE SKY.

A member of the party, William Thomas Jones (33), of Eastcourt Ave., Leeds, said that on looking from a point 100 feet down the chasm he saw a figure silhouetted against the sky, in the act of hurling a large stone down a shaft.

A moment later he heard a cry from a point at which Miss Binks was standing. He was certain that the stone he saw thrown down was the one that killed Miss Binks.

Further evidence showed that the cyclists were at the edge of the pothole at about the time of the accident.

A verdict of accidental death was returned.

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· May 10

am I too late

A black cat in Silhouette on a window ledge. His reflective collar and single, massive green eye, are reflected glowing back at the camera

A black cat sits on top a fence. The fence is covered in boards in a vain attempt to stop him climbing the fence.

A black, eyeless cat grips a scratching pole with his arms wrapped round it and talons out

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· May 10

We get some strange things in gull pellets, but this 20mm 1944 shell is definitely one of the most interesting things we've found on the island!

Sarah Dalrymple@sarahdalgulls· May 4

Little walk up to Darden Lough and then a detour on the way back to check out some geology - a slip feature with rifts and caves! very cool. #Hiking #Northumberland