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Had brilliant spring /summer last year watching local Little and Barn Owls .Pleased to say they seem to be thriving and are well and truly back on form !Thought I'd share a couple of images from this evening.

brilliant pics doc (as ever) hope i can take you up on your offer of a tour sometime soon..work permitting
 
Just back from my second BBS square.... where are all the resident birds? Normally over the 2 squares that I survey I'd log around 40 wrens, maybe a couple of dozen yellowhammers, numerous blue tits and great tits. I haven't logged double figures of wren between the two sites, certainly I've had only 3 yellowhammer and both great and blue tit numbers are well down. The migrants are doing well though with the usual numbers of blackcap, swallow, willow warbler and chiffchaff.
Obviously a sign of the harsh winter I reckon
 
Managed to find a small colony of Corn Buntings in a freshly plowed field near my inlaws. Around c10+ birds all jingling away. Mixed in with some skylarks and linnets. Plenty of Tre sparrows around as well.

mark.
 
Was planning on cycling to the only corn bunting site (I know of) tonight but Mondays run out has had a knock on effect on top of my commute. If there's some decent weather at the weekend I'll have a go then as I'd like better views than last year. Tried in March but didn't see any.
 
Plenty of Corn Buntings in the field at the back of the old Skipwith railway station holiday carriages. Can be viewed from the road too. They fly from the field which is sown for Barley and into the mature trees in the middle of the field.
 

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Did a Tetrad visit for the Bird Atlas in Pontefract Park today, found a reeling gropper there, as well as half a dozen sedge warblers, a handful of whitethroats and almost double figures of willow warblers.
Again very low numbers of tits, wrens etc.
 
Again very low numbers of tits, wrens etc.

Hi Keith
I noticed that numbers of tits and wrens were low in my BBS square in Aberford but numbers of singing wrens in both Bramley Fall Woods and Gledhow Valley Woods were high yesterday. Perhaps we've lost birds in more exposed areas but lets hope that some have moved to more sheltered areas with more insects.
 
To Kirkby Gannet.................If the best thing in life a man can be called is..DAD.......then running it an extremely close second is.....GRANDAD.. ENJOY..!
 
There had been a Harris hawk at Swillington Ings a couple of years ago. Managed to keep itself fed on the rabbit population, never saw it myself but there is/was a pic on the website. For some reason the website is being blocked by our IT department, strange as it's not a threat to national security or pornographic.
 
cheers

To Kirkby Gannet.................If the best thing in life a man can be called is..DAD.......then running it an extremely close second is.....GRANDAD.. ENJOY..!

thanks for that joe..we are all very excited about it, except the wife who is alredy driving everyone bonkers signing her texts.... super gran 2b.....:t:
 
If the website has mentioned Blue Tits at any time, or something similar it may be blocked by some systems!


The warning that comes up says it's blocking blogs and personal sites. This is the first day it's done this and the website doesn't contravene any of the rules. I'm sure I can access far worse sites.
 
Yellow Wagtails are back on their Holderness breeding grounds, but are in a narrower area & in smaller numbers.
 

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