Yorkshire Birding (93 Viewers)

[Keith Dickinson]

The crane was showing well around noon at Nosterfield Quarry, the nature reserve car park was full so I reckon the hides will have been full of folks looking for the 'little egret'. Also present were 2 greenshank, a single ruff and a ringed plover plus more canada geese than you could shake a stick at.

 

[joespy]

At Fairburn this morn. Pickup hide had 1 GreenSand, 3 Com Sand, 2 Snipe. Spoon/flash had these 2 (?sandpipers.) from roadside, ID would be nice please.....:t:
I first thought they were Ruff but they looked different to each other. I know there are variations with Ruff but they were stood with Lapwing and were only about 2/3rds the size.
Cheers Joe
PS Excuse quality it's only a compact...:C

 

[Keith Dickinson]

I'd say you were correct with ruff as id but I reckon they are females. There's marked difference in size with Ruff, males are much bigger than females, the smallest females can be as small as a dunlin.

 

[Geoff Pain]

After tramping round Nosterfield for most of the day,finally managed to catch up with the Crane at Lingham Lake.

 

[captaincarot]

just a quick pic of the bad weather that cancelled last nights storm petrel ringing.

 

[timmyjones]

just a quick pic of the bad weather that cancelled last nights storm petrel ringing.

I'm no expert either but in the 1 storm petrel ringing session I have attended where there was majority cloud cover with a fairly small moon and yet this still effected the catch and the night was quickly abandoned.

Other ringing sessions that get cancelled we associate with bad weather like rain and wind, whereas a night as clear as that would have meant no stormies caught due to them seeing the net!

Happily corrected but this could have been the reason.

 

[zing]

Probably a Canada x domestic Greylag

Steve

cheers steve. these hybrids do my head in!!!

 

[zing]

As Steve said, it's somewhere between something and something else

Cheers Ken.

 

[zing]

As Steve said, it's somewhere between something and something else

might have another for you!!

 

[zing]

help on this one

might have another for you!!

Anybody got any ideas on this one?

 

[zing]

Today

And when the rest of the world is going mad! how happy does this make you feel?

 

[liverpool_bob]

Anybody got any ideas on this one?

Pink-footed

 

[zing]

Some from this week

Will not bore you with the story but i have spent 3 weeks tracking these little buggers! the kestrel was a Fluke!
spent several hours in a make shift hide.

 

[knotsbirder]

Anybody got any ideas on this one?

Pink-Footed Goose
And great images! Tawny Owl and Kestrel are fantastic!

 

[zing]

And Finally.

There is a genuine story to this, I thought i was onto a real winner here!
the swallows would not stop dive bombing this chimney.

 

[Lawts]

I'm no expert either but in the 1 storm petrel ringing session I have attended where there was majority cloud cover with a fairly small moon and yet this still effected the catch and the night was quickly abandoned.

Other ringing sessions that get cancelled we associate with bad weather like rain and wind, whereas a night as clear as that would have meant no stormies caught due to them seeing the net!

Happily corrected but this could have been the reason.

No it wasn't the reason. It was cancelled due to bad weather - not due to inappropriate weather for ringing Storm Petrels.

Thanks Captain - your picture nails it.

 

[DOC REED]

SEO's at sunset

Have had a few days away from the the rat race, birding across yorkshire.A few more images to follow, but thought u might enjoy these last light images of seo in remoter parts of region. A few days until the glorious 12th, hope it survives!!!

 

[timmyjones]

No it wasn't the reason. It was cancelled due to bad weather - not due to inappropriate weather for ringing Storm Petrels.

Thanks Captain - your picture nails it.

Okay but can you see that it was inappropriate weather for ringing storm petrels and more than likely none would have been caught anyway?

 

[captaincarot]

Okay but can you see that it was inappropriate weather for ringing storm petrels and more than likely none would have been caught anyway?

absolutely spot on for mothing though, which was another aim of the evening.

but to be fair earlier in the day while the rugby was on it was absolutely minging.

it's just unfortunate that the weather forecast was absolutely spot on, what's the chances of that hey a correct weather forecast.

 

[northernloon]

I may be missing something here, but can I count White Wagtail per BOU?