Yorkshire Birding (1 Viewer)

[BirdFlower]

Pretty grim at Spurn today, but did eventually find a migrant - grainy pics on blog!

 

[Pete Mella]

Pretty grim at Spurn today, but did eventually find a migrant - grainy pics on blog!

I'd be chuffed if that was all I saw all day! What a beauty!

 

[BirdFlower]

I'd be chuffed if that was all I saw all day! What a beauty!

Yeah, but not a patch on your tame Shrike!

 

[andy r]

Pretty grim at Spurn today, but did eventually find a migrant - grainy pics on blog!

Should be better tomorrow Michael if the weather forecast is right - good vis and light SSW winds - hoping for some passage!
Andy

 

[tophillbirder]

Someone on the course has done a bit of digging & tracked down the identity of the Whooper at Swinemoor today. What follows are Ken D'arcy's own words: I've found "our" swan DJ3, aka Edmund!! He's part of the WWT swan tracking programme. So the antenna wasn't imagined. You can see him on http://whooper.wwt.org.uk/whooper He's second from left in the gallery. The one tucked under someone's arm. Happy birding and bon voyage to Edmund!

A fluke we saw them really. Didn't see any other birders there at all today & the pair will probably be gone in the morning. There's even a google map with Edmund's position marked!
Cheers

Saw Edmund this evening and he's drooping a wing so ain't leaving. Wife staying loyal for now. Also had 2 LRPs but didn't have the 4 L.Egret seen less then a hour later. Did Tophill earlier but v.quiet.

 

[Hotspur]

Jack Snipe and a few Sand martins at Tophill Low. The Jack was so showy it was unreal! Really bad video on blog which shows how showy it was and a few stills at the end show the pale on the bill and dark central crown stripe.

 

[Marcus Conway - ebirder]

Can someone rpovide some gen for reptiles and larks tomorrow? I only have until 1PM - will it be worth it? Anyone seen the BNG's today?

EDIT Also Ring Ouzels back at last years West Yorkshire site

 

[Keith Dickinson]

No gen on the BNG but kudos to you mate on the pic in today's birdwatching column of the Yorkshire Post. Also ta for the r'ouzel tip, I know where I'm going next Wednesday now...LOL

Can someone rpovide some gen for reptiles and larks tomorrow? I only have until 1PM - will it be worth it? Anyone seen the BNG's today?

EDIT Also Ring Ouzel's back at last year's West Yorkshire site

 

[liverpool_bob]

Really bad video on blog which shows how showy it was.

I can't even make out a bird of any sort

 

[Hotspur]

I can't even make out a bird of any sort

It adds colour and movement to the blog post although im not sure camera shake and glare are the colour and movement I was looking for.

 

[Lawts]

I see the repoll I referred to in post 7062 has been re-assigned as a Lesser, (correctly IMO).

 

[Pete Mella]

Good day at Potteric today - drake garganey (a lifer) showing well, 4 avocets, ringed and little ringed plovers, willow warbler, blackcap...

No sign of black-necked grebes that have been around recently, unfortunately.

 

[James Thomas]

Got this little beauty just on the boundary of S.Yorks/Derbys after work... :t:

Pete do you have a grid reference for this bird?

 

[Hotspur]

First Swallows from the car near Kilham and a Red Kite just south of Pickering was a surprise.

 

[Chris-Leeds]

While checking out the rough area of land by Thorpe Park at Colton by the M1/A63 junction (still in the vain hope that the overwintering stonechats are still around) I noticed a pied wag acting unusually. It was mobbing something that I thought might have been a b.o.p. . Turned out to be a small parrot of some kind, really couldn't ID it but had blue, red, yellow and maybe green in it's colouring (not a rainbow lorikeet). It made calls that sounded like the background sounds in Neighbours or some other Aussie soap.
Checked the pipits to see if there were any other than meadow and may have seen tree, not really sure. Did find two wheatears, one impressive looking male catching the sunlight well and the usual roe deer.

 

[tophillbirder]

Great Northern Diver back at Welton Waters this morning having been absent most of last week. Also Blackcap singing Common La.
Jack Snipe again showing Tophill Low on South Marsh East but a bit distant for pictures. Also Ruff, Green Sandpiper and sev LRP. Fem Goosander on Watton NR. Heard first Willow Warbler in South Scrub.
3 Little Egrets, 10 Ruff and several LRPs Swine Moor this evening.
40 Waxwings still in Cottingham but not on show this evening and the bush is bare.

 

[liverpool_bob]

My old man seen a Swallow over Lowthorpe today. Earliest for a good few years.

 

[mickg]

Blackcap today at Worsborough Res, Barnsley & 1st ever Siskin on garden feeder.

 

[Pete Mella]

Pete do you have a grid reference for this bird?

Yup - SK223876, just west of the Strines turnoff. Still there this morning, apparently.

 

[Pete Mella]

Slightly early, I know, but does anyone know any near-guaranteed spots for yellow wagtail, preferably not a million miles away from my neck of the woods?