darrenward
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We had a quick check on the Red-necked Grebe today at Ten-acre Lake at Hatfield, still on & calling, plus 2 Hobby on the walk back.
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Went out of county today - Kent for the Black-winged P. A long drive for five mins. on show! Managed a few record shots. Saw it in flight which was nice. Heavy rain and strong winds hampered viewing. Couldn't be bothered trying for a distant Red-rumped in the wind. A couple of bursts of Cetti's song from two separate birds but again didn't bother trying for views in the strong wind.
Little Paxton was nice (as always) early doors - several Nightingale calling, with the odd one showing. Also Turtle Dove, Garden Warbler etc.
Heavy rain followed me round all day - can't believe there was play in the Test Match!
Little Paxton was nice (as always) early doors - several Nightingale calling, with the odd one showing. Also Turtle Dove, Garden Warbler etc.
Heavy rain followed me round all day - can't believe there was play in the Test Match!
Andrew Tongue
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Swinemoor Monday morning
Brief (20 minute) scan from the Corporation Farm viewpoint, 1040-1100:
No sign of the Temminck's stint.
Ringed plover: 1
LRP: 2
Greenshank: 1
Shelduck: 1
Brief (20 minute) scan from the Corporation Farm viewpoint, 1040-1100:
No sign of the Temminck's stint.
Ringed plover: 1
LRP: 2
Greenshank: 1
Shelduck: 1
liverpool_bob
scarce migrant to yorkshire
Spent the weekend on the patch, struggling against the weather. Nothing too exciting but managed to find a Hobby hawking insects on Saturday afternoon - an earliest local date for me.
The pair of Mute Swans on Kelk Beck have 8 very small cygnets - this is remarkably the first time in over 20 years any have bred here despite several adults being ever present, so good luck to em.
Also seen were 3 Shoveler, 3 Teal, 4 Pochard, 4 Buzzard, 2 Curlew, 2 Cuckoo, pair Grey Wagtail, 3 pr Yellow Wagtail, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Garden Warbler.
Apparently a Turtle Dove visited a farmyard in Kelk early last week - the same spot where there was one two years ago. I had a quick look around but no joy.
A few non-birdy things: a Stoat almost ran over my foot as I was sheltering from a shower on Saturday :eek!: and a Water Vole seen quite close yesterday. Not many butterflys on the wing but did manage to see Holly Blue, Wall, Speckled Wood, Orange Tip.
One of the Lesser Whitethroats was house tick - heard in the paddock out the back :t:
The pair of Mute Swans on Kelk Beck have 8 very small cygnets - this is remarkably the first time in over 20 years any have bred here despite several adults being ever present, so good luck to em.
Also seen were 3 Shoveler, 3 Teal, 4 Pochard, 4 Buzzard, 2 Curlew, 2 Cuckoo, pair Grey Wagtail, 3 pr Yellow Wagtail, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Garden Warbler.
Apparently a Turtle Dove visited a farmyard in Kelk early last week - the same spot where there was one two years ago. I had a quick look around but no joy.
A few non-birdy things: a Stoat almost ran over my foot as I was sheltering from a shower on Saturday :eek!: and a Water Vole seen quite close yesterday. Not many butterflys on the wing but did manage to see Holly Blue, Wall, Speckled Wood, Orange Tip.
One of the Lesser Whitethroats was house tick - heard in the paddock out the back :t:
id help please!
went on my first trip to spurn at the weekend, loved it, but have an ID issue i wonder if you guys could help me with? Probably the song/movement that will be the biggest clue....every 2 minutes the bird (brown, finch sized but 50 metres away) would rise to a height of about 60 feet with an increasingly loud and intense call before hovering breifly and then falling on stiff wings to the ground. I'm a little too amateur to ID but it seemed to me to be a very specifc action, does it fit with any bird in particular? Watched it for about 20 minutes. The only evidence i could find of any bird doing this was a similar description of a tree pipet?
Would really appreciate an experts thoughts? Thank you! James
went on my first trip to spurn at the weekend, loved it, but have an ID issue i wonder if you guys could help me with? Probably the song/movement that will be the biggest clue....every 2 minutes the bird (brown, finch sized but 50 metres away) would rise to a height of about 60 feet with an increasingly loud and intense call before hovering breifly and then falling on stiff wings to the ground. I'm a little too amateur to ID but it seemed to me to be a very specifc action, does it fit with any bird in particular? Watched it for about 20 minutes. The only evidence i could find of any bird doing this was a similar description of a tree pipet?
Would really appreciate an experts thoughts? Thank you! James
Jimmy, they will have been Meadow Pipits, which are common breeders at Spurn and this is there typical song flight which is similar to Tree Pipit but completely wrong habitat for breeding.
Andy
Many thanks Andy! really appreciate that...learning learning! cheers
Pete Mella
Getting there...
From the Old Moor sightings page from Thursday...
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Took my second trip out to Old Moor yesterday.
Figured that the rain might not bother the ducks as much as it would the usual stuff I,m out looking for !
A good day for me with another 3 lifers to add to my tally !
Spent just short of 5 hours watching:
Black Headed Gull, Common Tern, Cormorant, Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe, Mallard, Gadwall, Ruddy Duck (lifer), Tufted Duck, Redshank, Oystercatcher (lifer ..so far as I can remember !), Sanderling (lifer), Little Ringed Plover, Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Greylag Goose, Canada Goose, Mute Swan, Lapwing, Moorhen, Coot, Magpie, Pheasant, Kestrel, Starling, Jackdaw, Pied Wag, Reed Bunting, Chaffinch, Linnet, Great Tit and probably some which I forgot too. Heard my first Sedge Warbler in a reedbed but as I couldn,t see it I,m not sure if that counts as a tick ??
No sign of any Serins flying over though ..... As if I,d know ....3
Watched a guy in the Wader Scrape hide doing a watercolour painting while getting the finer details through his scope too. Very talented guy ..I was dead impressed !!
These ere scopes are handy tools !
Figured that the rain might not bother the ducks as much as it would the usual stuff I,m out looking for !
A good day for me with another 3 lifers to add to my tally !
Spent just short of 5 hours watching:
Black Headed Gull, Common Tern, Cormorant, Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe, Mallard, Gadwall, Ruddy Duck (lifer), Tufted Duck, Redshank, Oystercatcher (lifer ..so far as I can remember !), Sanderling (lifer), Little Ringed Plover, Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Greylag Goose, Canada Goose, Mute Swan, Lapwing, Moorhen, Coot, Magpie, Pheasant, Kestrel, Starling, Jackdaw, Pied Wag, Reed Bunting, Chaffinch, Linnet, Great Tit and probably some which I forgot too. Heard my first Sedge Warbler in a reedbed but as I couldn,t see it I,m not sure if that counts as a tick ??
No sign of any Serins flying over though ..... As if I,d know ....3
Watched a guy in the Wader Scrape hide doing a watercolour painting while getting the finer details through his scope too. Very talented guy ..I was dead impressed !!
These ere scopes are handy tools !
Blackcap on Saturday at Loshpotts. With Marcus' recent Cuckoo record the list now stands on 87. Unfortunately the habitat appears to have grown up too much for LRP - the problem with it not being managed properly.
In the garden, Yellowhammers are daily at the feeders and have been for the last two weeks. Collared Doves busy nest-building. No sign of any House Martins yet. They seem to be getting later each year but breeding later. There were still young in the nest into October last year, so I'm still hopeful they'll be back soon.
In the garden, Yellowhammers are daily at the feeders and have been for the last two weeks. Collared Doves busy nest-building. No sign of any House Martins yet. They seem to be getting later each year but breeding later. There were still young in the nest into October last year, so I'm still hopeful they'll be back soon.
liverpool_bob
scarce migrant to yorkshire
Tick it while they still exist. Bang! Bang!
No, it was a Reed Warbler
DOC REED
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Andrew Tongue
Well-known member
Swinemoor Tuesday morning
Swinemoor 0755 - 0945 this morning
No sign of the Temminck's stint, although the bird was seen Monday evening and may well still be present
Greenshank: 1
Ringed plover: 1
LRP: 2
Redshank: 5
Lapwing: Four sitting birds counted, with a total of 10 young (five separate broods)
Reed warbler: 8 singing
Sedge: 2 singing
Whitethroat: 2 singing
Willow warbler: 5 singing
Snipe: 3, with two drumming
Kestrel
Shelduck: 2
Blackcap: 1 singing
Swinemoor 0755 - 0945 this morning
No sign of the Temminck's stint, although the bird was seen Monday evening and may well still be present
Greenshank: 1
Ringed plover: 1
LRP: 2
Redshank: 5
Lapwing: Four sitting birds counted, with a total of 10 young (five separate broods)
Reed warbler: 8 singing
Sedge: 2 singing
Whitethroat: 2 singing
Willow warbler: 5 singing
Snipe: 3, with two drumming
Kestrel
Shelduck: 2
Blackcap: 1 singing
Pete Mella
Getting there...
Enjoy them while you can!
Up to you - I count heard-onlies, a lot of people don't. Beware, though, Old Moor has reed warblers as well as sedgies.
Chris-Leeds
Well-known member
I only count heard birds if I'm doing a bird track survey, so my records show turtle dove but my own list doesn't as I'm not going to count something I haven't seen.
I think that's the only bird in that kind of case for me, the bird I heard at the weekend was not anything I could identify anyway so remains a mystery.
I think that's the only bird in that kind of case for me, the bird I heard at the weekend was not anything I could identify anyway so remains a mystery.
Had some time to kill this lunchtime so spent a pleasant hour or so wandering around Adel Dam Nature Reserve in Golden Acre. Whilst there wasn't a great deal about I managed to snap these two. Did hear (but not see) a couple of Tawny Owls inthe woods.
Whilst the Mandarins probably aren't truely wild they did present a good photo opportunity.
Richard
Whilst the Mandarins probably aren't truely wild they did present a good photo opportunity.
Richard
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malskelton
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Just seen Birdguides and saw a Golden Oriole reported at Kilnsea yesterday and today - any further details ?
Thanks
Mal Skelton
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Mal Skelton
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