CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

The Tyne Bridge in Newcastle, and the buildings around it, are famous for hosting the largest inland breeding colony of kittiwakes in the wo...

Thursday's Guardian Country Diary is about this male common darter dragonfly - surely the last of the year - that we saw a few days ag...

Thursday's Guardian Country Diary is about a sudden change in the weather in Tynemouth. We were visiting for a walk along the north ...

I found this stonefly crawling on the footpath on Wylam bridge across the river Tyne yesterday. Key identification features of stone...

While we were sheltering under our umbrellas recently, dodging the puddles, someone remarked that it was 'nice weather for ducks...

This grey seal popped its head above water when we were walking along the sea wall footpath between Tynemouth and North Shields yest...

Rock pipits Anthus petrosus on the parapet of Tynemouth north pier, waiting for the tide to fall and uncover their normal feeding ground on...

Yesterday, when we were walking near Corbridge along the Devil's Water, a tributary of the River Tyne, we found these ...

We spotted this little goldcrest feeding in the gorse bushes today, when we were out walking in the Tyne valley near Corbridge...

I found two typical bracket fungi that live on silver birches this afternoon, on some trees on the banks of the river Tyne ne...

Tynemouth this morning: blue sky, blue sea, a bracing breeze, salty air, ships on the horizon, lapping waves, raucous gulls, fish-and-ch...

It was a perfect summer afternoon, so we decided to take a stroll to the end of Tynemouth pier and discovered that it was a favourite spot ...

We were standing on Union Quay in North Shields this afternoon (after an excellent fish and chip lunch in the Waterfront), watching a ship m...

This family of goosanders were enjoying the sunshine upstream from the bridge across the river Tyne at Corbridge (bottom photo) this aftern...