Northern views too good to miss

The B6305 Allendale road, Northumberland Colours and sights shift across the seasons, all seen from this one roadIt’s late morning and I’m driving from Allendale to Hexham along the straight road known as the Paise dyke. Cars bowl along here at speed, but to do that is to miss the far views and the birds. There’s always something to catch the eye. Ahead, on this warm March morning, starlings swarm like bees across the fields, a rushing wind as I drive under them, about 3,000 bi