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Category Archives: Cloudspotting
Making the most of what you’ve got
As regular readers will know, I’m not currently living in my perfect house. The views are of other people’s windows, and the landscape is sterile – a new build desert. I was recently surprised to discover that a kestrel has … Continue reading
Posted in birdwatching, Cloudspotting
Tagged birds, birdsong, blackbird, cloud, garden, Kelvin-Helmholtz, red kite, rooftops, starling
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Quarries toads and chickens
The main reason I’ve moved to Crook is that it is very easy to get up into Weardale. Weardale is a walkers’ paradise, largely because hardly anyone can be bothered to visit. An earlier work trip to Birmingham meant I … Continue reading
Posted in Cloudspotting, Out and about
Tagged Bollihope, camping, chickens, cloud spotting, curlew, footpaths, Frosterley, Hill End, iridescence, lapwing, lenticular, plover, quarries, quarry, red grouse, rights of way, ring ouzel, skylark, Stanhope, stiles, sundog, walking, Weardale, Weardale Way, wild camping
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Vantage Point
A cold, crisp day today, I took a walk along the back lanes of Crook, my new County Durham home. I’ve found a spot to the North West of Crook that has commanding views of Weardale. The upper fells are … Continue reading
Posted in Cloudspotting, Out and about
Tagged clouds, Crook, cumulus, elephant trees, Frosterley, fumulus, pyrocumulus, Weardale, Wolsingham
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summertime
I’m acutely aware that I haven’t blogged for a while. I’d say I’ve been busy but the truth is I just haven’t got around to it. So what’s been happening? All’s very quiet in the garden. The tree sparrows still … Continue reading
Posted in birdwatching, Cloudspotting, In the garden, Out and about
Tagged clouds, Crook, Durham, horses, sparrowhawk, tree sparrow
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Sand and surprises: adventures on the Northumberland coast
I’m recently back from a camping trip to the coast near Berwick upon Tweed, England’s most northerly town. Having been to Berwick before, I thought I knew what to expect, but boy was I wrong. Even before we left home, … Continue reading
Posted in birdwatching, Cloudspotting, Out and about
Tagged Beachcomber campsite, Berwick, camping, cloud, coast, dune, dunlin, gannet, heron, Holy Island, Kelvin-Helmholtz, Lindisfarne, Northumberland, orchid, sand, sanderling, seal, wader
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Sunrise and sunset
Today was a treat for two reasons: we had both a sunrise and sunset, and I was actually up and out of the house in time to see both. I can’t think of many reasons to enjoy the short winter … Continue reading
Posted in Cloudspotting, Uncategorized
Tagged altocumulus, clouds, goldfinch, reed bunting, snow, sunrise, sunset, virga, yellowhammer
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What a beautiful day
As I write this the sun is setting on what has been a truly beautiful day. We awoke to the first deep and widespread frost of the year. The BBC weather report claimed an overnight low of 0 degrees C … Continue reading
Towering giants (or: the wonder of clouds)
It might have been cold recently, but we’ve been treated to some good clouds if you like that sort of thing. Unsettled weather is brilliant for cloudspotting: as the clouds build and pass overhead you get to see them at … Continue reading
A lovely sunset to cheer us all up
The weather is pretty dismal in the North East at the moment – well it is July after all – so I thought I’d share these sunset photos taken last Friday from just south of Durham city: The sky started … Continue reading
Cloudspotting
I really like clouds. This evening I noticed the sky was covered in streamers of stripy, iron grey cloud. According to my Cloud Collector’s Handbook by the lovely Gavin Pretor-Pinney, this is altostratus undulatus radiatus. Here is a photo I … Continue reading
Muddy Tracks 