Mark Eaton

@markaeaton.bsky.social

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Scientist, conservationist, naturalist, birder. Secretary of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel & ornithologist for hire. Loves all of that plus dogs, music, leftwing politics, football, Northumberland, family. He/him.

A small group of Turnstones calling overhead while migrating south over rural Northumberland, in mid-July
A singing male Quail in the pitch black
A barley field at dusk, near Auldgirth Dumfries, with a singing Quail
A loud squadron of Swifts zooming over a cottage roof
Poor photo of a male Lesser Emperor dragonfly at Willen Lake, Milton Keynes
Blue sky and Northumberland countryside on the edge of Alnwick with the reeling sound of a Grasshopper Warbler
Turtle Dove flighting over Ingoe, Northumberland
Sam, the world’s best dog.
Black Skimmer, skimming
Forster’s Tern
In the foreground, a Blue Whale, the world’s largest creature. Behind it, a Fin Whale, the world’s second largest creature. Monterey Bay, California
The Beta Band, Boiler Shop Newcastle
Sanderling, Dunlin and Knot
Male Common Redstart
Female Golden-ringed Dragonfly
Manxies
Gannet & Guillemots, Inner Farne
Male Eider x Mallard hybrid
Arctic Tern and some bloke
Leucistic Common Guillemot on Inner Farne, Northumberland
Kraftwerk
A Shoveler duckling with its siblings and mum
Dark evening sky with the sound of churring Nightjars last night
Shelduck chicks surfing
Female Eider with two chicks
Eider duckling being transported to safety 🤞
A slightly lost Eider duckling wandering around the beach at Seaton Point
A dark night sky with the sound of two young Long-eared Owls, and a sheep backing chorus
Rose-coloured Starling hiding in a tree and refusing to come out
First-summer Little Gull, Boulmer
Grey Heron posing under flowering Yellow Flag irises
Moonwort
Large Red Damselfly, one of several which found Sam the golden retriever a perfect perch
Arctic Terns
Fulmar
Sand Martin
The Orb
The female American Black Tern that has returned to the Long Nanny, Northumberland every year since 2020, obviously paired with the same male Arctic Tern it bred with in 2024. Three eggs were laid in 2024 but did not hatch and were likely infertile.
Holy grass Hierochloe odorata
Dog in a ditch
Blandings, a Blanding’s Turtle
Scrolling past dozens of new BlueSky followers
Female Emperor Moth
An Oystercatcher sitting in its tree trunk-top nest in the pouring rain
Three Common Cranes in a field at Howick Northumberland
Two Common Cranes in a tilled field at Howick, Northumberland
Oystercatcher on its nest on a roadside tree stump
Four brown blobs which are actually Temminck’s Stints
Foliage at Hardwick Hall, Co. Durham with the sound of a calling Iberian Chiffchaff
Super Furry Animals onstage at Glasgow Barrowlands
Sir David Attenborough (right)
The Cowboy Junkies on stage at Sunderland Fire Station
A male Pied Flycatcher just visible through the leaves
Acid Mothers Temple at the Cluny, Newcastle
Iberian Chiffchaff, Hardwick Hall
Foxton Bends, the river Aln just west of Alnmouth, at high tide late afternoon today
The sunset over Alnwick with the soundtrack of dripping gutters and a reeling Grasshopper Warbler
Male Ring-necked Duck (middle bird)
Palmate Newt
A pair of Adders, female at the front