Daily Teessider

Tweet Visitors to one of Britain’s most important wildlife reserves are being asked to help wild birds survive the winter, by keeping quiet. The Tees Estuary and other wetland sites in the Tees Valley are home to thousands of wintering birds who need to maximise their feeding time. Walkers, pets and water-sports can all disturb [...]

Tweet So why do we kiss? The most important and obvious reason why we kiss is that it facilitates reproduction. Women, who according to studies place more emphasis and importance on a kiss, use the mouth-to-mouth moment as a way to judge the taste of the tongue, lips and saliva to see if she is [...]

Tweet The long-eared owls still provide lots of excitement. There were plenty of beaming face – complete rosy cheeks – around the visitor centre today. Staff managed to record this wonderful video of one of the owls. The owl watchpoint has been running every day from about 11 am. The next treat was thanks to [...]

Tweet This week staff at RSPB  Saltholme, Teesside’s nature reserve uncovered a group of roosting long-eared owls which are normally secretive and nocturnal.  They’re a bit off the beaten track and shouldn’t  really  disturbed so staff are keeping their whereabouts a bit of a secret.   You can get close views of them, though – just [...]

Tweet Warmer seas could be responsible for a change in the type of dolphins spotted off the coast of the North East of England, a survey has suggested. The North East Cetacean Project found an increase in sightings of common, Bottle nose and Risso’s dolphins – species associated with warmer waters. There have also been [...]

Tweet Hedgehogs are, sadly, famous for crossing roads too slowly, but one has found a new niche in highway history. To the astonishment of residents in Hartlepool, it was posthumously painted over with double yellow lines after contractors on a tight deadline failed to move its remains aside. The incident happened during a programme of [...]