Hartlepool Borough Council Now that you've begun charging blue badge holders to park in many of your car parks are you going to do your duty to make sure all gates on public footpaths are passable for larger mobility scooters? The ones at Seaton Common aren't passable. Pls retweet for me.

Blimey... I can barely manage a Barn Swallow locally, and this happens! Isn't vagrancy amazing (and concerning!)

A few images from the West Pacific Odyssey as we reached the Izu Islands of Japan. The endemic Ijima's Leaf-warbler, Izu Thrush and Izu Robin, whilst Streaked Shearwaters were common offshore.

#nocmig has been a bit more interesting over home (Jarrow) in the last fortnight. 7 species of wader incl multiple Common Sands & Whimbrels, Kittiwake on 4th May, Tree Pipit on 5th and 3 flocks of Barnacle Geese last night. A bit more promising... trektellen.org/count/view/277…

Quick visit to RSPB Lakenheath Fen whilst working in Suffolk. Impressive numbers of Hobby (over 40 in one scan), multiple Bitterns & Great White Egrets, Marsh Harriers everywhere. Nightingales showed well close by. But virtually no hirundines in all rural areas visited. Worrying...🙄

Kittiwake 'hotels' erected on the Tyne Bridge are not being used by the birds, a wildlife group has said: bit.ly/44n6izq

Trip of a lifetime, watching and photographing Birds of Paradise in PNG with Rafa Armada. 👇 rafaelarmadaphoto.com/papua-new-guin…

A few shearwaters seen on the West Pacific Odyssey, for #SuperSeabirdSunday . Buller's and Flesh-footed in NZ waters, Wedge-tailed (pale morph) off North Mariana Islands and a cloud of Short-tailed migrating rapidly north.

A couple of iconic seabirds seen on the West Pacific Odyssey. New Zealand Storm-petrel, believed extinct since 1850 but refound in Hauraki Gulf in 2003. Beck's Petrel, after just two specimens in 1928/9, it was conclusively rediscovered off New Ireland in 2007.

A few pterodromas from the West Pacific Odyssey. Black-winged and White-necked from NZ, Gould's from New Caledonia, Bonin's from Japan. All stunning seabirds.

Three species of Booby accompanied the boat through the tropics on the West Pacific Odyssey. Red-footed, Masked and Brown, with additional 'brewsteri' subspecies of Brown off the North Mariana Islands (normal range Mexico & Pacific coast USA). #SuperSeabirdSunday

Imm. Marsh Harrier north at Whitburn at 07:25. Low over sea, about 600m out. Increase in northbound tern passage incl 2 Little & 6 Arctic.

A few nice waders from West Pacific Odyssey & New Zealand: Wandering Tattler, Pacific Golden Plover, Wrybill & New Zealand Plover.

Well, it'd be rude not to... Quick visit to Hartlepool this afternoon to see the first Dark-eyed Junco for the county.

A few storm-petrels from the West Pacific Odyssey. Matsudaira's and Tristrams from the Bonin Islands, one of an unprecedented number of Leach's (almost as far south as New Ireland), and a more widespread Wilson's.

White-billed Diver close north past Whitburn at 08:04. About 600m out, imm. type plumage.

The Japanese island of Torishima was one of the highlights of the West Pacific Odyssey. An active volcano, it is home to the bulk of the world population of Short-tailed #Albatross (plus a good few Black-footed Albatross).

A great few days in New Zealand cleaning up on most North Island endemics. Highlights of 2 Kiwi species, fantastic experience to watch them appear at dusk. Now on to the Heritage Adventurer for a month of seabirding with wildwings and Mark Harper