Hi just wanted to ask some of you more experianced birdwatches on a good beginer place in yorkshire to watch the wildlife As ive been to fairburn inns and wanted to get to know more hides to use my new canon 100 to 400mm lens thanks ricky
Showing well at Thornwick fishing pond this evening, 2nd record for Flamborough
Saw three Grass Snakes at work today in Wakefield.
Hi just wanted to ask some of you more experianced birdwatches on a good beginer place in yorkshire to watch the wildlife As ive been to fairburn inns and wanted to get to know more hides to use my new canon 100 to 400mm lens thanks ricky
Did an hour at Bank Island today for some birdtrack counts. Reasonably quiet but a high count of 106 Lapwing. Also of note was a female Teal which was a surprise due to lack of water. A single Redshank and also my first Bullfinch since the spring. For a couple of years i have been gripped off by my where to watch birds in Yorkshire book. It mentions categorically that Kingfisher are present on the Derwent between Bank Island and Wheldrake Ings so EVERY time i get to a likely spot out the back of the Cheesecake hide i always take a few minutes to watch for one zooming by. I had never seen anything remotely Kingfisher shaped zoom by and after 2 years i had pretty much given up. Today was watching a tit flock on the far bank and through my bins a blue whoosh. Not a great view but an overwhelming sense of relief. I did have the right spot afterall! So patch tick, not county though because i had a pair at tophill low 2 weeks ago. Happy man. Might go to Blacktoft tomorrow for the Spoonbills seeing as i dipped one at Filey a month ago when i decided to drive past the dams to the brigg.
Are there Spoonbills at Blacktoft? Am intending going on Sunday.
Hi just wanted to ask some of you more experianced birdwatches on a good beginer place in yorkshire to watch the wildlife As ive been to fairburn inns and wanted to get to know more hides to use my new canon 100 to 400mm lens thanks ricky
Hi just wanted to ask some of you more experianced birdwatches on a good beginer place in yorkshire to watch the wildlife As ive been to fairburn inns and wanted to get to know more hides to use my new canon 100 to 400mm lens thanks ricky
Just back from Samos. Seems all the birds came here while I was gone!
My only lifer of the trip was citrine wagtail!
Report will follow.
We had a club walk in the Ings on Monday evening,heard a few Tawny's in the wood and had at least 15 Woodcock roding along the main ride just as the light went.As it's been a glorious evening we decided to get out & do what my kids have christened the "owl walk" (a circuit across the moors & through Timble Ings). Definitely lived up to it's name tonight - at least 2 SEOs plus a Tawny. Spent about 15/20 mins watching one SEO hunting. Plenty of Wheatears, Mipits & Curlews & a pair of Red Legged Partridges as we were coming away.
Are there Spoonbills at Blacktoft? Am intending going on Sunday.
Certainly agree with that,our local Sand Martin colony is only just catching up,this time last year they were just about hatching the first brood.Pete and others. Migrants seem to have been held up by the rubbish weather in April. Just a theory. I'm hoping this remarkable warm spell heralds a change. Decidedly cold in East Anglia on Sunday.