Wednesday 6 January 2010

Tyne Penguins?

As I was passing the Newcastle Business Park at lunchtime I was quite surprised at the size of an iceflow sedately heading toward the sea with a compliment of gulls.
I reckon with this weather there could be a lot more of them on the way down so I'm off to Waterstones to buy a book on Penguins.

I noticed quite high numbers of Teal. Its strange how they always look pristine even though they are plodging around in mud.

4 comments:

kirstallcreatures said...

Great pic of the gulls on the ice. You won't see that very often! The Teal looks terribly dapper. L

Stewart J said...

Lot of icing on river edges of South Tyne haven't seen that in many years. Enjoy reading the blog.
ATB
Stewart

Citybirding said...

Thanks Linda and Stewart.
Apparantly there are a lot of ice flows in the Ryton Willows area

Stewart J said...

While out for a walk along banks of So Tyne east of Haltwhistle I was suprised to see Rabbits scurrying across the icy edges of the river when I obviously disturbed them. Had not realised ice was so thick?

Can remember as a schoolkid in early sixties watching large very thick ice flows coming down the Tyne at North Shields! Are we in for something similar this year?

Stewart