Craster : 3rd July 2014
Our third and last day on the Northumberland coast was reserved for non-bird watching activities but we still managed to have a little bit of birding in the village of Craster where we stopped for lunch at The Jolly Fisherman restaurant where we sat on the balcony in the sunshine watching Eider parents showing their young where to find food amongst the rock pools in the harbour and find drinkable water. Out at sea there were Guillemots and small numbers of Shelduck. On the harbour wall Gulls roosted and the odd Pied Wagtail bobbed along. All the houses around the harbour seemed to be built to help nesting Swallows and House Martins and the air was full of them. We had a lovely lunch and sneaked a little bird watching in anyway.
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