Seahouses 2025 Part 1
18th - 21st July, 2025
July 18th to 25th we stayed at Seahouses. The map below shows the main places we visited.
Left home about 6:30am, and arrived at Seahouses 11:30, about 300 miles, good journey. Stopped once near Durham.
Ate lunch on benches by the little beach (to the left of the photo below, just below the whale jaw bone), then went into our house, Lobster Lodge, on the front - to the right of the photo, our silver car in front of the double garage. Great house, garage on ground floor, three bedrooms on second, living diner and balcony on third, also with a back (or was it front?) door at ground level, then one bedroom in the roof. Superb views over the harbour and to the Farne Islands.
The front door, at the back.
Living room and balcony
Fishing boat, coming into the harbour.
Very friendly house sparrows, often came onto the balcony to eat bread, also around the road and beach.
Swallows also landed on the balcony, and on the wires close by.
In the afternoon, went for a walk round the rock pools and beach, redshank, curlew, herring gull. There
Most days there were around 10 female goosanders in the harbour or close by.
A pair of Redshank.
Pied wagtails were very common through the week, such as this youngster on the rocks.
Curlew on the rocks.
Also often saw gannets flying by, probably to and fro Bass Rock.
A great black-backed gull flew by.
The lifeboat launched during the afternoon.
And was watched and filmed by Tom and Izzy on the balcony.
Oystercatchers were often seen.
There were also cormorants.
The kittiwake colony near the golf course was almost empty, just the odd youngster left. It seems a lot of the breeding was over early this year.
A heron was often in the harbour.
View over the harbour to the Farne Islands.
Tom took some nice drone photos; the harbour with Bamburgh castle beyond.
And looking south, the kittiwake cliffs, through to Beadnell, and Dunstanbugh Castle just visible.
The lifeboat returned, having rescued a small dingy, which we think had run out of fuel - it refuelled and hurried off!
Later went to Monks House Pool - just north of Seahouses and usually has a surprising number of species - today, black tailed godwit, redshank, heron. The small lake is only about 250m long and 50m wide, with a reed bed at one end, but during the week also saw pied and yellow wagtails, reed bunting, avocet, greylag geese, dunlin, moorhen, mallard, stonechat, sedge warbler.
And a single wood sandpiper.
That evening went to Bamburgh, and Tom got some photos of the castle and coast.
Es took a picture of the sunset and evening light at Seahouses.
Then, from the balcony, watched the 40 odd swifts wheeling and screaming round - lovely sight.
The harbour still looked nice after sunset.
Saturday was mainly wet, but did walk to Monks House Pool and back in the evening.
Monday was misty but nice, the islands looked lovely with the mist.
A quick walk round the harbour, saw herring gull, oystercatcher, turnstone, crow, plenty of eiders, curlew, house sparrow, bar tailed godwit, ringed plover, redshank, rock pipit.
Crow
Spent some time, and a lot of pixels, chasing swifts from the balcony.
Next, went to Bamburgh, and went down to the beach - swallows were taking water from a small stream, but the photos weren't successful. Was nice to hear a grasshopper warbler close by, but as usual with the species, not to be seen. Also a pied wagtail about.
Nice walled gardens in Bamburgh, open to the public.
Bamburgh Castle - possibly the most majestic in the area?
And Tom got some more photos, this time from the south.
And the north east.
A misty Bamburgh Castle from Seahouses.
And in the afternoon, took a trip to the Farne Islands Seahouses 2025 Part 2