Thursday, 18 June 2026

View along the cliffs and birds near the lighthouse at Berwick-upon-Tweed - 14th May 2026

I decided to go for a walk along the cliffs in Berwick-upon-Tweed on an overcast morning.  When I reached the Coastwatch station, one of the volunteers came out onto the balcony and asked if I would like to see the view from inside.  I had to climb up a vertical ladder inside the building.


View towards the lighthouse from the Coastwatch station

Overlooking part of the golf course, with the holiday park in the distance

The orange flag is only flown outside the Coastwatch Station when the volunteers are there

I then carried on with my walk along the cliffs and viewed the lighthouse from the Little Beach area

Young Stonechat perching on a vertical stem

Meadow Pipit perching on a log

Linnet and two young Stonechats on the top of a shrub

Young Stonechat flying over the Linnet

Male Linnet singing from a bramble

Male Stonechat perching on vertical twigs

One female and two male Eider ducks in the distance

Lighthouse viewed from the grassy Stonechat and Linnet area by Little Beach

Two Mute Swans on the river Tweed

Mute Swans on the river with the lighthouse in the distance when the sun came out


Female Goosander on the river

Group of Eider ducks in the distance behind the row of Mute Swans

Female and male Eider ducks


Male Goosander on the river

Goosander and Eider ducks

Male Goosander watching the others from a rock

Another view of the Eider ducks

Closer view of the male Goosander

Male Eider duck showing off his wings

Back on the cliffs, I saw a group of Gannets and small seabirds flying low over the sea

View of the Coastwatch Station and lighthouse on my way back along the cliffs

Distant lighthouse viewed from the cliffs at the edge of the holiday park

Pretty pink Thrift growing on the edge of the cliff

The lighthouse in the far distance

Cliffs and cave from the far side of the holiday park

Lovely flowers near the entrance to the holiday park


Glorious purple Allium at the edge of the path in the holiday park


 

Another visit to Holy Island - 13th May 2026

It was a very wet morning but, as it was one of the few days that a bus service was running from Berwick-upon-Tweed to Holy, I decided to risk it and go anyway.  It was raining when I arrived, but then the sun came out and it was a lovely day.

Rabbits in a garden not far from the car park


Lovely yellow flowers growing on the side of the wall


Swallows perching on top of gravestones in the churchyard


Statue of St Cuthbert in the churchyard

Black Guillemot in the water in front of St Cuthbert's island - really too far away for my camera

Black Guillemot and a male Eider duck

St Cuthbert's island

Pansies in a small public garden in the village

White Wisteria just starting to bloom

Another wet Pansy

Poppies in front of a hotel


Singing Dunnock

Hens at the farm


Male Reed Bunting near a path leading to the coast

gathering food for his nestlings

Sheep resting on grass just outside the bird hide with the Emanuel monument in the distance




Skylark kindly landed in a nearby field long enough for me to take a photograph

Little Grebe on the water in front of the bird hide

Linnet perching on tall grass

Bunch of pretty Cowslips

Ruined building near the path leading to the beach

Lindisfarne castle in the distance

View from a hilly walk

Meadow Pipit perching on a twig

Buck Roe deer with an itch

He spotted me!

Skylark in a field on my way back to the village


Collared Dove in the hotel yard

The Poppy bud that I photographed when I first arrived on the island had begun to open up by the time I was going back to the car park in order to get the bus at around 17.00

Pretty Poppies