Great to see wheatear, golden plover, lapwing, curlew etc on territory @northyorkmoors.org.uk around Danby & Sleddale today.
Plus several red kite, buzzards & kestrel.
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Some from #Spurnbirds today.
The 2 drake garganey, whimbrel, wheatear & 💯 s of Brent geese.
Also common ringed plovers, dunlin, avocets, curlew, oystercatcher, swallows, sand martin and a barn owl. @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social
The healthy looking black-throated diver temporarily on a small pond on lighthouse rd, before being released @flamboroughbird.bsky.social on the sea yesterday.
20+ bottle n dolphins nth past the head.
Pair of stonechat.
Sand martins, mipits, skylark, chiffchaff, Fulmar etc.
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Some more from yesterday at Covenham & Rimac. Black-necked grebe, great northern diver, whoopers & one of at least 6 cattle egret.
Also slavonian, great & little grebes, house martin & swallows.
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Covenham res today.
Black-necked and Slavonian grebes, together at times, great northern diver in the opposite calmercorner was obliging.
Whoopers touched down briefly. Redshank, g c grebe, swallow & 1st house martin of year.
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Black tailed godwit in shallow water, maybe with a slight lump above left knee
Avocet behind winter plumage black tailed godwit
Avocets
A pair of Goldeneye swimming close at Blacktoft
Plan B in the wind was a trip to @rspbblacktoftsands.bsky.social Enjoying the strong wind were multiple marsh harriers.
Sheltering were 10 black tailed godwit, avocets, snipe, Goldeneye and my first swallow and sand martin.
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A few more from Bempton yesterday.
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From a foggy start at @rspbbemptoncliffs.bsky.social
Puffins, razorbills, shag, gannets.
Plus Fulmar, guillemots kittiwakes, Herring & great black-backed gulls, corn & reed bunts, linnets, meadow pipits & short eared owl.
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Lapland bunting feeding happily on the beach from Crook bank
Shore lark in drizzle on sand dunes
In the gloom and cold wind today Lapland bunting from Crook bank & 2 shore larks at Brickyard Ln Theddlethorpe.
Sanderling, curlew, collared dove & Cormorants. Gulls had been feasting on dead seals. @lincsbirding.bsky.social
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4 short eared owls, yes 4 at least! @ The Outstrays on the Humber. Plus Black tailed godwits, Avocets, reed bunting & skylarks singing new for the year list.
Pics of shorty at range, through fence and very windy 😕
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White-fronted and pink feet geese part of a flock of several hundred
Male Brambling perched in a beech tree
Brambling feeding on beech mast
Russian white-fronted & pinkfeet Yedingham, to make it a 7 Goose weekend to add to the bean, barnacle, egyptian grey & Canada.
Brambling year tick at Troutsdale in a flock with Chaffinch, marsh blue & great tit
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2 bean geese south of Crook bank @lincsbirding.bsky.social yesterday still, Thanks @owenbeaumont.bsky.social for the tip, also barnacles, Canada, Greylag and then egyptian with whoopers and Mute swans at Fiskerton fen @lincswildlife.bsky.social Goosander fishing on the Witham.
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3 cattle egret, kingfisher and tawny owl new for the year at a wet and breezy @tophilllow.bsky.social .
Redshank, fieldfares, little egret, marsh harrier buzzard add to the mass of waterfowl .
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Hoping you lovely folk will share. :-)
Great grey shrike perched in a trimmed hedge
Grey partridge in winter crop field
The Fillingham @lincsbirding.bsky.social Great grey shrike was matched by the weather and kept distant.
The grey partridge pair by a busy roadside where a little closer and a nice year tick ✅️
Also Yellowhammer, whoopers goosander and red kites.
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Beaver 🦫?
An hour after work rewarded, time spent with the Best bird currently in East Yorkshire.
Male Hen Harrier huntingSaltmarsh... you won't persuade me otherwise. 🤩
Also barn owl for the year list.
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Saturday morning 🌄
Despite Sparrowhawk & buzzard disruption briefly, a healthy total 40 of 15 species.
7 Long-tailed tit most difficult to count 🍭 😆
Wet, windy &
on higher ground foggy around Wykeham & Scarborough.
6 species nfy.
Marsh tit, treecreeper, nuthatch, turnstone and in the harbour Red-throated and a great northern diver
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One of two bittern seen at @northcavewet.bsky.social by @mjthom.bsky.social
Also great spotted woodpecker amongst many others
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North Duffield carrs:
Scaup, dunlin, redshank, great egret, pintail, wigeon, stonechat marsh harrier and with patience and rain eased briefly the magnificent white tailed eagle appeared out of the gloom. Flew from River bank to distant tree ~12.. honest😶🌫️
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That is a nice marsh tit, not a blackcap.
Just what I said, as the One show is promoting it.
Could have helped protecting Hawks in the wild.
White-fronted goose standing on ice at Watton, next to much larger Greylag
3 white fronts with Greylag
Redpoll feeding in silver birch
Highlights from @tophilllow.bsky.social 3 russian white-fronted geese first picked up on size as they flew by with greylags, then they slid in on the ice at Watton.
Quick snap of redpoll before they flew off, whoopers near Wilfholme.
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A very icey @ldvnnr.bsky.social on Tuesday.
Didn't catch up with the white tailed eagle this visit.
Nice to see great egret & little at East Cottingwith.
Most other birds seen were flying along the river from Aughton, marsh harrier buzzard & wildfowl incl pintails wigeon & teal.
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Eastern black redstart from Scarborough, end of November
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Outstanding birds topped by the White-throated needletail.
Eastern black redstart
Eagle Back on the river bank.
Distant from Geoff Smith hide
White tailed Eagle short flight (west) from N Duffield carrs at 9:15.
Currently not viewable
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Tundra bean goose showing well it's orange legs & patch on bill
Tundra, 3 Russian White-fronted, 2 pinkfeet & barnacle geese
7 geese of 4 species, Tundra Bean, 3 Russian White-fronted Geese, 2 pinks & barnacle in a wet field Cloughton.
GGShrike a no show.
Bar tailed godwit, turnstone redshank & purple sandpiper Scalby Mills
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