Another warm day @northcavewet.bsky.social Highlights 5 Green Sandpipers 4 Redshanks 2 Little Ringed Plovers+2 young 20+ Little Egrets Lesser Black-backed Gull Avocets Cattle egret Grey heron Marsh Harrier Buzzards Red kites Pochard Egyptian geese Shelduck Lots of Dragonflies Emerald Damselfly

Keeping an eye out for its next meal to arrive! @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Fairly quiet on patch but our Swifts are still feeding young, no idea how many though? @yorkbirding.bsky.social

@rspb.bsky.social Blacktoft Sands 3hrs produced 36 species Ruff Redshank+Spotted Black-tailed Godwits Dunlin Snipe Marsh Harriers Avocets Greenshanks Green Sandpipers Dunlin Yellow+Pied wagtails Spoonbills Loads Bearded reedling L greeb Gadwall LRPlover Tree Sparrows

Fab circular from Muker to Keld in Swaledale Spotted Flycatcher 4+12 juv F Pied Flycatcher+1 juv 6 Redstarts too fast for good views(F or juvs) Pied wag Raven Wheatears Siskins Oystercatchers White-tailed eagle, in view on and off for 26mins before heading South. @northyorksbirds.bsky.social

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Not what I was expecting to see at Keld today White-tailed eagle being mobed by a Buzzard😀😀

A couple of hrs @ldvnnr.bsky.social Bank Island/Wheldrake ings Little Ringed plover 2 Green Sandpipers 15 Little egrets 9 Grey herons The Hay cutting brought in loads of Red kites 8+ and 3 Buzzards in just one field Marsh Harrier Lots of Dragonflies Southern Hawker? @yorkbirding.bsky.social

1 of 2 @rspb.bsky.social Fairburn/St Aidans yesterday Finally caught up with the Spoonbills Cattle+Little+Great white egrets Puss Moth caterpillars(haven't seen these since I was a kid) Black-necked greeb Red Kite Loads of Gadwall Common Terns with young L R Plover Great Crested greebs

3 Silver-washed Fritillarys back on patch today,(2 days earlier than last year) together with fresh Painted Ladys, Red Admirals, Commas, Ringlets, Meadow browns and a Six-spot burnet moth

I think this sums up the weather today!🥵

Not seen much of our Swifts until today, both birds are going in and out of the box, hopefully feeding young. Also Red kite and Hobby over the garden. First Cinabar caterpillars on patch. @yorkbirding.bsky.social

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@ldvnnr.bsky.social Wheldrake ings/Bank Island Heard the Corncrake from the centre and then one flew from the bank below the centre over the dyke. Maybe brought in by the calling male?? Green Sandpiper 2 Redshank Kingfisher M Marsh Harrier Cuckoo Wigeon C Terns @yorkbirding.bsky.social

@duncbye.bsky.social Excellent prediction at the bbq, Green Sandpiper at Bank Island this morning @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Patch Good to see the GSWoodpeckers doing well with 2 nests with young Barn owl hunting House Sparrows nesting in one of the Swift boxes Blue tits fledged And in a 2 of the other Swift box's we've got Swifts going in and out It's taken 3 years to have any interest. Buzzing @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Barnacle geese with young at Derwent water Keswick (all Ringed and 3 2 with neck collars Pied Flycatcher Ravens Chiffchaffs

Isle of Iona Corncrake✅️

1 of 3 Isle of Mull Black-throated diver✅️ Ringed plovers Redshanks Golden Eagle😀 White-tailed eagles😀 Shag Cuckoo's Ravens Hooded crows Oystercatchers Gannets Curlews Sea otters✅️ Common Sandpipers Rock pipits

Oban Highlights Black Guillemots in the harbour Eiders Red-breasted mergansers Common Terns

1 of 2 Kielder forest/Kelpies/Trossachs. Redstarts Osprey Tree pipits Cuckoo's Wood warblers Hooded crows

1 Fantastic 2 week road trip, first stop Northumberland Excellent start with Grey, Ringed and Golden Plover C+ Sandwich Terns Dotterel ✅️ 3 Whimbrels Dunlin Eider Wheatears L Egrets Osprey 2 Ravens Stonechat Sedge warblers Curlew

Fab lifer ✅️ just off England Coast Path in Northumberland Dotterel

Update on patch 2 pairs of Mandarin + 2 more drakes and 8 ducklings 😀 Also 2 Grey partridge @yorkbirding.bsky.social Another visit @ldvnnr.bsky.social NDC for more views of the Red-footed falcon. Also 2 Hobby Lesser Whitethroat 3 Yellow wagtails

Naburn Our local Mandarins have now got 4 ducklings. No camera 🙄 this morning though! @yorkbirding.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social

Fab day with @yorkbirding.bsky.social At Spurn, Sammy's point and @northcavewet.bsky.social Lots of Great birds, and Whimbrels turned up everywhere DB Brent geese B Brant Cuckoo Tawny Owl R+LR Plovers Knot Bar-tailed godwits Med Gulls Yellow wagtails Avocets C Terns Wheatear

Lin Dike Cuckoo 2 BKTGodwit LRP 3 Redshank 2Pk footed geese Bittern booming Shelduck, but dipped Wood Sandpiper and Spoonbill, made up for with Red-footed falcon ✅️lifer (a bit distant) @ldvnnr.bsky.social ND Carrs thanks to finder Chris Gomersall +L Whitethroat ✅️ @yorkbirding.bsky.social

After waking up to Cuckoo's, Curlews and Oystercatchers calling, a shorter walk produced even more Redstarts.

Higher rout today up onto Gunnerside Moor via Swinner Gill 12 miles Cuckoo's Redstarts Spotted Flycatchers FFY Dippers Ring Ouzel FFY Red Grouse Wheatears Stonechats C Sandpipers M Pipits

A little jaunt to Swaledale Walk from Muker to Keld and back Highlights FFY and for here for us Pied Flycatcher (M) Also 3 Redstarts 2 Dippers one taking food to its nest 2 Grey Wagtails Common Sandpiper 10+ Oystercatcher Slow-Worm Kestrel taking flys like a Hobby, similar to 1 at Wheldrake ings🤔