Today we were again up bright and early to beautiful wall to wall sunshine, but a tad fresh first thing as we headed 20 minutes up the road to Low Newton By The Sea, to carry out one of our favourite coastal walks we have ever done.
The walk basically is an out and back along the coast to Craster, taking in the very impressive Dunstanburgh Castle, with its iconic ruins on the skyline as you walk along.
A few nice birds along the first part of the walk, saw us enjoying some great views of a Spotted Redshank on Newton Scrape and a juvenile Peregrine which was harassing a local Buzzard.
Further on a single adult Mediterranean Gull and a handful of Arctic and Sandwich Terns near Dunstanburgh Castle gave some nice views.
The weather was lovely today and it gave us some great chances to take lots of photos.
As we arrived at Craster we decided to have an early lunch at the local pub with some great sea views, just lovely.
After stuffing our faces, we began the return leg of the walk and as i was approaching Dunstanburgh again, i spotted a triangular dorsal fin and the hoped for Bottle-nosed Dolphins were watched as they passed slowly south towards Craster.
There were only 3 animals in this small pod, but were just great to see all the same.
More nice birds and the fantastic scenery kept us entertained, what a lovely walk this is!.
We managed a pretty impressive 71 species of birds on the walk and as we walked past the scrapes, the Spotted Redshank was still there.
After enjoying this amazing walk, we decided to have a walk along the beach at Bamburgh and up to Stag Rocks, before going into Bamburgh for tea.
On the way back to the cottage, i stopped off at Budle Bay were the best sightings went to 4 adult Med. Gulls and a Greenshank, with a few Pink-footed Geese seen distantly.
What a brilliant day.
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| Low Newton/Embleton Bay. |
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| Mrs R, With Dunstanburgh Castle In The Distance. |
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| Dunstanburgh Castle. |
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| Embleton Bay. |
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| Sanderlings, Embleton Bay. |
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| Bamburgh Castle, One Of The Most Imposing And Impressive In The Country. |
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| Sunset At Budle Bay. |
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