Wild(ish) life in the city

Our day in Newcastle earlier this week wasn’t just about people-watching. We’d come to walk the banks of the Tyne, weaving back and forth over at least some of its seven bridges. Let’s take a bird’s eye view of the scenes we saw.

This is what those pigeons in the header photo were looking for.

This is the Tyne Bridge, with just beyond, the Sage Gateshead and the Baltic Centre.

This young herring gull was inspecting me as I inspected him. He was tucked behind a railing just beyond that first planter.

We wandered onto the Swing Bridge, which luckily didn’t want to open to allow river traffic through. Its elderly wooden jetties provided the perfect resting place for gangs of pigeons.

Then we walked down this walkway, for another view of the Millennium Bridge …

… but one of our views of the Sage was reflected in a nearby office window.

We didn’t really see any more wildlife. Unless this counts.

I’ll see if I’m allowed to sneak both the pigeons and the herring gull into  I. J. Khanewala’s Bird of the Week.

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Author: margaret21

I'm retired and live in North Yorkshire, where I walk , write, volunteer and travel as often as I can.

37 thoughts on “Wild(ish) life in the city”

  8. No place like home, and it never was for me but I’ll always have a soft spot for Newcastle. Did you make it to Ouseburn and the arty stuff round there? And it must be impossible to take a bad photo of the Eye. I love it 🤗💙

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  9. The gull works especially well in B&W and of course I love seeing all your photos of the bridges, especially the Millennium Bridge, my favourite 🙂 The Swing Bridge was in the news when we were up there – there was no risk of it opening on your visit as apparently its mechanism is jammed. A local MP is keen to try to sort it as its 150 year anniversary is coming up: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastles-swing-bridge-repair-anniversary-27526939

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      1. It’s never well used because the main roads don’t drop down to the river which you need to do for this bridge – they cross the Tyne Bridge or the Redheugh further west.

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  11. Cool B&W photos Margaret. I love the top one of the pigeons looking quizzical. And the wooden jetties. Towns and cities are perfect for this type of photo.

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      1. I often ponder on how other creatures can see life with all the differing types of eyes and lenses. There are so many wonders that we are unable to see, BUT so much beauty that we miss because we just don’t look!

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