Yorkshire Birding (1 Viewer)

[zacatzooba]

honey buzzard east over Leeds 6pm (birdguides) - in the garden typing this looking upwards!!

 

[Marcus Conway - ebirder]

Jim got an eyeful tonight... we had a trip up t'moors.

 

[Marcus Conway - ebirder]

Yup you're right... back to the drawing board.

Well not a LEO (although we gotone tonight!). But what a cracker!

 

[darrenward]

**mega**

Little Swift @ Old Moor, over Wader Scrape @ 07:47 this morning..

__________________
Daz

 

[Keith Dickinson]

Little Swift @ Old Moor, over Wader Scrape @ 07:47 this morning..

__________________
Daz

What's the chance on the bird hanging around?

 

[Hotspur]

Its gone apparently

 

[Pete Mella]

Little Swift @ Old Moor, over Wader Scrape @ 07:47 this morning..

__________________
Daz

That's well before the reserve opens - probably only seen by staff I'm guessing.

 

[Marcus Conway - ebirder]

I was there at 1PM - no sigh
Gat back its there! going back now - I handed in my notice last week - so what they gonna do??

 

[James Thomas]

Right Marcus, you take the photos, Keith can add it to the list, James can do the fieldnotes, Graham commentary, ...

 

[liverpool_bob]

#4185, 27 June... Old Moor...

Is that a Little Swift

Pffft... don't say I didn't warn you :-O


Cheers,
Bob.

 

[Marcus Conway - ebirder]

Back from old moor. Met Lawts on site. We were both in shirt and tie and neither of us had our bins. We both got fairly decent views.

 

[Mike Richardson]

Back from old moor. Met Lawts on site. We were both in shirt and tie and neither of us had our bins. We both got fairly decent views.

Nice one! This is one Yorkshire Mega I'm going to have to leave (unless it's still there on Saturday afternoon...)

 

[Keith Dickinson]

I'm off to Old Moor now...wish me luck!

 

[Marcus Conway - ebirder]

More Long, ahem, Short Eared Owl pics on the blog.

 

[Keith Dickinson]

Just back from Old Moor.... no joy on the swift. Plus some joker in the hide kept finding house martins and wouldn't accept that they weren't the target bird.

 

[James Thomas]

Hard lines Keith, hopefully it'll coninue doing the rounds.

 

[Lawts]

Just back from Old Moor.... no joy on the swift. Plus some joker in the hide kept finding house martins and wouldn't accept that they weren't the target bird.

Didn't see you Keith. I went back for seconds tonight. Bumped into Daz and Johnny Mac.

As you say no joy tonight. Gutted for my bro. Dave. He was on site when it was showing distantly, and when it flashed across the scrape in front of the hide, just before the rain and just before I returned.

He saw the bird flash past but not enough to see features to tick it, so is doing the correct thing and leaving it. At least he got the Notts. bird.

Connected with the Spoonbill as well tonight. It is a cracking reserve - such a shame the hours of opening aren't always like tonight - the late sun was excellent for photography.

Here's hoping it's back on in the morning.

 

[Marcus Conway - ebirder]

Didn't see you Keith. I went back for seconds tonight. Bumped into Daz and Johnny Mac.

As you say no joy tonight. Gutted for my bro. Dave. He was on site when it was showing distantly, and when it flashed across the scrape in front of the hide, just before the rain and just before I returned.

He saw the bird flash past but not enough to see features to tick it, so is doing the correct thing and leaving it. At least he got the Notts. bird.

Connected with the Spoonbill as well tonight. It is a cracking reserve - such a shame the hours of opening aren't always like tonight - the late sun was excellent for photography.

Here's hoping it's back on in the morning.

So you went back with optics??

Must say twitiching a swift at distance without optics was not the brightest move - was some reall generous fellas in the hide fortunately!

 

[Lawts]

So you went back with optics??

Must say twitiching a swift at distance without optics was not the brightest move - was some reall generous fellas in the hide fortunately!

Ye I thought I'd give it a try with optics - I must say they do seem to help generally, but I actually had more luck without them, so may stick to this approach - less to carry, less chance of being mugged and fewer looks from the general public - could catch on.

 

[johnnymac]

Little Swift

Wow what a cracking local mega a good find for local stalwart Dave Waddington..not sure who refound it this afternoon but well done. A tricky bird to pick up on amongst the swarm of swifts over the reserve. But I got lucky soon after arriving as within 15 minutes the boy drifted off low to the east during heavy rain. It flew past the Wader Scrape hide and continued over the Main Marsh and out of sight shortly after 5PM. As the rain eased many Common Swifts returned to feed over the reserve but no further sign of the Little Swift by dark.

It had done this earlier in the day soon after its initial discovery so there is some hope for a repeat performance tomorrow. There are some suitable railway arches for a roost site at the east end of the reserve!

Also this evening the Spoonbill, Hobby and nearby 2 smart second summer Little Gulls on Broomhill Flash