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[tophillbirder]

Good grief this is getting ridiculous, remember the otters last year and the ticking off? This is a forum about birds blah blah. Won't get a pseudonym and don't think I'm coming out of the closet but what's this?

Thought I might go even further off topic and mention I got a snail tick this evening. Plaited Door Snail in Nut Wood & Wauldby Scrogs. Weird things which look like rat turds stuck on tree trucks. Bird wise was v.poor with no sign of the hoped for breeding Coal and Marsh Tits.
To me the Rodley NR tern looks v.like the possible Antarctic Tern I saw near Lincoln 10 years ago. That was generally regarded as an aberrant Common.

 

[BirdFlower]

Hummingbird Hawk-Moth

From Butterfly Conservation (Yorkshire)

Damian Money in Skelton saw a pair of Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnets on Saturday and his first Purple Hairstreak of the year at Skelton today along with a Hummingbird Hawk-moth.

 

[Chris-Leeds]

Wouldn't an Antarctic tern look different at this time of year? With it being the Antarctic winter and all. Or could one adapt enough to be in breeding plumage according to it's environment?

 

[kirkby gannet]

being relatively new to this forum and am struggling with the whereabouts of some of the places mentioned on a regular basis....can someone please explain where beverley westwood is ,i live near pontefract..r+r

 

[delia todd]

being relatively new to this forum and am struggling with the whereabouts of some of the places mentioned on a regular basis....can someone please explain where beverley westwood is ,i live near pontefract..r+r

Hi kirkby gannet

I'll wade in here if the others don't mind, (they do know I'm a Yorkshire fanatic:-O)

You'll find a lot of the places in the Opus articles - I'll await info about Beverley Westwood too! Thought it was somewhere near Beverley... is it?

D

 

[stanacko]

being relatively new to this forum and am struggling with the whereabouts of some of the places mentioned on a regular basis....can someone please explain where beverley westwood is ,i live near pontefract..r+r

Hi Kirkby gannet,
If you are traveling via M62 take the last exit ( Northcave ) and head to Walkington keep straight on through Walkington Village to Beverley on outskirts
of Beverley you will enter a large area of Pasture with a Golf club on your right,
opposite the Golf Club is aroad off to your left go down this road the area on your left & right is Beverley Westwood you can park any were on your left & if i were you i would walk left that is the best area.
Stanacko.

 

[tophillbirder]

Wouldn't an Antarctic tern look different at this time of year? With it being the Antarctic winter and all. Or could one adapt enough to be in breeding plumage according to it's environment?

Don't think anyone seriously thinks the Rodley NR tern is an Antarctic just that the only aberrant feature it appears to exhibit is a long bill the same as the 1999 tern near Lincoln which some birders suggested could be an Antarctic but I believe was generally dismissed as an aberrant Common. Currently can't find my "Seabirds" so can't mention any other features that might suggest Antarctic Tern. Worth remembering Arctic Terns winter in Antarctic waters so vagrancy of Antarctic Tern might not be impossible. Whether one would be in summer plumage I can't answer.

 

[Andrew Tongue]

Paull Holme Strays, Crown & Anchor and The Warren Tuesday

Paull Holme Strays Western end, quick check at 1600:
Black-tailed Godwit: 7 islandica-type adults
Grey Heron: 1

Crown & Anchor, Kilnsea 1635:
Dunlin: Around 300 off the Crown on a rising tide; good numbers of waders on the Humber further east and west
One elusive and unidentified birder seen tantalisingly briefly - views suggested an adult non-breeding plumage Steve Exley!

The Warren, Spurn, 1645:
Whimbrel: One heard

Please see the Spurn Bird Observatory website for an official summary of Spurn daily sightings.

 

[tophillbirder]

Dug out Birding World V12 N7. 2 photo's by J.Harriman of the aberrant Common Tern Burton Gravel Pits,Lincs July 1999. Does look like the Rodley NR bird. BWP states Common Tern can vary 13 per cent in wing length and 25 per cent in bill length and regularly show no black tip to the bill.

 

[tophillbirder]

Tophill Low NR on BBC Look North second week in a row. Last week breeding Spotted Flycatchers. Tonight ringing Barn Owl chick, as well as a mention of breeding Common Terns and LRPs. Yorkshire Water's PR department must be working over time. Well done Derrick on getting in on the action, maybe tip me off next time.

 

[DOC REED]

Long Marston

Nice evening on local patch ,which included Tawny,Barn and Little owls (with juvenile Tawny and Little), Kingfisher,Corn Bunting but best of all (for this area ) LRP and Dunlin.Sadly no fantastic nature reserves with wader hotspots locally.The dream is to buy a field ,dig a scrape......these birds were at a fishfarm so anything is possible !

 

[Andrew Tongue]

Paull Home Strays Wednesday

Paull Holme Strays 0515 - 0650:

Little Egret: 2
Green Sandpiper: 1 flushed from drain alongside bank near to wooden steps
Black-tailed Godwit: 20 islandica type birds on middle lagoon
Avocet: 1
Dunlin: 4
Golden Plover: 26
Ringed Plover: 1
Shelduck: 2 females with 16 young ducklings

 

[Keith Dickinson]

Corn bunting would be a good bird for me, not seen one for several years. I keep turning up at places where they used to be.... not where they are.:C

Nice evening on local patch ,which included Tawny,Barn and Little owls (with juvenile Tawny and Little), Kingfisher,Corn Bunting but best of all (for this area ) LRP and Dunlin.Sadly no fantastic nature reserves with wader hotspots locally.The dream is to buy a field ,dig a scrape......these birds were at a fishfarm so anything is possible !

 

[bitterntwisted]

Corn bunting would be a good bird for me, not seen one for several years. I keep turning up at places where they used to be.... not where they are.:C

Keith,

I found a family of them just south of the Humber on Sunday evening. Lovely bit of farmland - also had Meadow Pipit, Yellow Wagtail, Tree Sparrow, Skylark, Reed Bunting from the same spot, and a few early Golden Plover low over. I actually think you know the area as a place where Dotterel trips called in in previous years? PM for more detail if needed.

Went on to Blacktoft where there were at least 3 Greenshanks, looking very little like the half-dozen Green Sandpipers.

Graham

 

[darrenward]

I actually think you know the area as a place where Dotterel trips called in in previous years?

Graham

The back lanes used to hold Turtle Dove too, but long gone, always have a check there when going to B'toft, as I drive in the back way.. Also had a few last Friday on the roadside shrubs north of Easington en route to Spurn..

 

[James Thomas]

Wader passage and sea watching could be interesting this weekend with northerlies blasting into the north sea towards the end of the week

 

[Chris-Leeds]

I'm sure I'd heard corn buntings out Church Fenton way about a month ago. Every time I stopped the bike to try and see all I got was a blur of fairly distant motion so never knew if that's what they were. There were reed and yellowhammers around and they were easier to see however.

 

[knocker7800]

Nice evening on local patch ,which included Tawny,Barn and Little owls (with juvenile Tawny and Little), Kingfisher,Corn Bunting but best of all (for this area ) LRP and Dunlin.Sadly no fantastic nature reserves with wader hotspots locally.The dream is to buy a field ,dig a scrape......these birds were at a fishfarm so anything is possible !

Accompanied Doc last night on his patch, peeping through the fence at the LRP and dunlin at about 15 ft range was a joy. My favourite though was the juvenile tawny squeaking away.

Mark.

 

[knocker7800]

Wader passage and sea watching could be interesting this weekend with northerlies blasting into the north sea towards the end of the week

No charts Jim?

 

[James Thomas]

No charts Jim?

Go on then