Sean & Tricia completed a WiSe Course on Saturday 20th March 2021, thank you to Bex Lynam of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust for arranging it. Thank you to Colin Speedie for leading the training, Colin is the founder and Director of the WiSe Scheme, you can read a little more about Colin here and more about the WiSe scheme below… “… The WiSe Scheme is about watching marine wildlife the wildlife-safe way. Our aim is to promote responsible […]
Read MoreAll My Sons
More dolphins…
Exciting day at sea watching dolphins playing… thanks to our son Luke for the footage and our son Thomas for editing it.
Read MorePod of dolphins…
We have wildlife trips planned for this summer…. dates are here or call us to arrange a trip just for your family or group of friends… call Sean on 01947 840278
Read MoreTeaming up with…
“We have teamed up with Yorkshire Coast Nature and Real Staithes on their seabird and whale watching trips off the coast in Staithes, North Yorkshire. These fantastic full-day trips are fully guided by experts and each is tailored to the best stretch of coastline for seabird and whale action on the day.“ Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. Read more about our work with Yorkshire Wildlife Trust direct from them…
Read MoreTides are crucial…
Tides are crucial to everything that we do here at Real Staithes, be it aboard our Charter Angling boat ‘All My Sons’ or a day on the foreshore hunting for fossils or foraging for your lunch. You can listen to Sean talking to Kevin Rushby of The Guardian about tides here… We run our ‘low tide experience’ days on spring tides, these occur about every 14 days, so what this actually means is we can […]
Read MoreA day at sea
An amazing day at sea today (Sunday 22nd June) first up spotted a very large male Bottle Nosed Dolphin traveling at speed. We saw lots of Manx Shearwaters the most so far this year. Finally, a lone Storm Petrel, unfortunately it was being badly harassed by both Herring and Black Back Gulls, let’s hope it managed to evade them… you can read more about storm Petrels here.
Read MoreGoldcrest
It’s not just us humans who get disorientated in this foggy weather we are experiencing here on the coastal edge of the North York Moors National Park, it’s the wild life too. Sean’s just phoned from sea, he’s got lots of goldcrests taking a rest on board his boat ‘All My Sons‘. One of them is actually in the cabin with him. Goldcrest, regulus regulus, are actually the smallest bird in the UK along with […]
Read MoreHoly Mackerel…! Fishing and Foraging off the coast of North Yorkshire…
Here’s the video we mentioned in a previous blog post, it was filmed in August 2013 together with Martin Dunford (Cool Places), Josh Sutton (Guy Rope Gourmet) and Jules Brown (North York Moors National Park & Cool Places) and a film crew (Audere TV). Hope you enjoy it… If you are interested in learning about catching and cooking your own mackerel supper details about our trips can be found here… and Josh’s drawing of Sean’s […]
Read MoreLots & lots of activity at sea this morning…
Summer has finally settled into it’s normal pattern, thank goodness, not only can we see it in the grass verges along the road side and in the hedges, fields and woodlands but out at sea as well. Sean’s first phone call was to tell me about the Minke Whales Balaenoptera acutorostrata that he and today’s fishing party are watching. Minke Whales travel great distances from their breeding & calving grounds in the tropics to their […]
Read MoreStunning photo…
Sean had a local bird watcher / photographer on one of his fishing trips…though you might like to see one the photos… So if anyone is interested in photograhic trips on Sean’s boat ‘All My Sons’ do get in touch…
Read More