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Working in Leconfield (East Yorkshire) today, birds seen ♂ Marsh Harrier, Willow Warbler, 2 Curlew, 2 Oystercatchers with good numbers of Swallows & Sand Martins. Mammals seen 1 Roe Deer & 6+Brown Hares #YorkshireBirding @yorkbirding.bsky.social @btoengland.bsky.social @britishbirds.bsky.social

As parents know, sometimes you just have to ignore the kids and let them get on with it.
Dipper and one of its offspring on the River Wharfe today.
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Pied Flycatchers are back on territory and singing in Plantation Wood along The Strid in North Yorkshire.
Lovely to see (and hear) them before the trees return to full leaf.
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@teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @durhambirdclub.bsky.social @britishbirds.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social Iberian Chiff

Short visit to Fairburn ings today. Blackcap and Whitethroat singing, jay and common tern. @nybirdnews.bsky.social

Wrens and swallows in flight at North Duffield Carrs. @ldvnnr.bsky.social @yorkbirding.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social

Excellent talk last night at Bubwith church given by Craig Ralston, on the importance of and management of the LDV. I absolutely love this place and never tire visiting and learning more about it. @ldvnnr.bsky.social

Sedge Warbler and Common Whitethroat this morning at Staveley NR, also Marsh Harrier and Great White Egret @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social

Early BBS - Copmanthorpe West fields inc:
Lapwings x6 💚
Grey partridges 💚
Hares💚
Linnets (more than usual)
Yammer
Skylarks
Wthroats
Roe
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Mixing indoor and outdoor door sessions is helping our course participants @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social gain confidence in their new birding skills . Today’s visit to @yorkswildlife.bsky.social #strensallcommon gave great views of woodland species @yorkbirding.bsky.social

We're pleased to say that #LDV volunteer & local birder Neil Cooper is once again leading guided walks along the Pocklington Canal and Melbourne/Thornton Ings (on behalf of PCAS & the Friends of the Lower Derwent Valley) – booking is essential (details in the poster below) @yorkbirding.bsky.social

If you're free on the 9th or 23rd May, join us for a walk along the canal to listen out for bubbling Curlew, drumming Snipe, calling Cuckoos & reeling Grasshopper Warblers, with the sight of Spotted Flycatchers also a possibility. Booking details below (numbers limited) @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Our ringing team had a small but successful catch of waders in the #LDV recently, with 2 Curlew & 2 Black-tailed Godwits colour-ringed, with time beforehand spent monitoring the daytime feeding fields used by the first returning Whimbrel following our recent soil analysis @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Other sightings have also come in recently from
@rspb.bsky.social Blacktoft_Sands, Nosterfield LNR, Cambridgeshire and Cork. Thank you to everyone who has sent in sightings and photographs, helping us to monitor this rapidly expanding species in the #LDV @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Can visitors to the #LDV please be aware that there will be further disruption to our car park at Bank Island this week as resurfacing work continues, with no access & single file traffic management on the road. Completion of the new build is still expected by mid-June @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Spring Sedge and Rare Spring Sedge are starting to flower in the polytunnel @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social habitat creation nursery. Already easy to tell apart, with Rare Spring Sedge (C. ericetorum) showing dark purplish- brown flowers, with papery edges to the glumes, and no green at all.

Buzzing to have 5 pristine wheatear
on the new Community Woodland near Rufforth. First ones there, so really pleased. Lesser whitethroats are back too. Starting to become a nice little site @yorkbirding.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social

Wood Sandpiper and Jack Snipe on north lake mud @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social this morning @northyorksbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social

Still a handful of whoopers at North Duffield Carrs this morning along with a lot of herons and a pair of pintail. @ldvnnr.bsky.social @yorkbirding.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social

A chilly early morning at Wheldrake Ings with a crossover in seasons, lots of singing Sedge Warblers & 5 Pinkfeet @yorkbirding.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social

Fabulous to see that the Osprey’s have returned to the Bolton estate again this year, well done all involved 👍 @nybirdnews.bsky.social @teesbirds.bsky.social

Wheldrake Ings
2 Cuckoo new for #PWC2026
1 Corn Bunting
2 Ruff
3 Whooper Swan
1 Great Egret
4 Pintail
female Goldeneye
1 Great Crested Grebe
2 Reed Warbler
3 Cetti's Warbler
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Very distant Cuckoo

Great white egret

1 of 3 Whooper swans

Another fabulous patch tick this morning with a male Whinchat. I've not seen one here in the past 25+years.✅️
And then a couple of hrs @ldvnnr.bsky.social Wheldrake ings. Where are very distant Cuckoo was calling, Sedge and Reed warblers also NFY
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Record shot of female Common Scoter at Newburgh Priory this afternoon @yorkbirding.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social

My first singing & displaying Tree Pipit of the year today. Distant, in a very quiet corner of Yearsley Moor wood.
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4 Ring Ouzel and gropper at hummersea today. GNDiver and gropper at South Gare this evening. @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social

Blue Tit at Margrove this afternoon also 3+ Reed Warblers singing @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social

Grey Heron, Locke Park, Redcar @northyorksbirds.bsky.social @teesbirds.bsky.social