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Mainly here for the birds. UK lifelist #308
2 Black storks @lincswildlife.bsky.social @gibpointbirdobs.bsky.social the Wash viewpoint seen well in flight. Short eared owl & marsh harrier. 30 spoonbills, common sandpipers, little ringed plovers Avocet & 150 + black-tailed godwit including 2 colouringed submitted. @rarebirder.bsky.social
Super day @rspbframptonmarsh.bsky.social stars the 2 black-winged stilts, look at those pink legs. Spoonbill 32 spotted redshank 4, green sandpiper, water rail juv, ruff, l r plovers, blackwits, peregrine, marsh harrier & finally heard a quail @rarebirder.bsky.social @lincsbirding.bsky.social
Fantastic, I was lucky enough to see them last year 👏
Foulshaw Ospreys@foulshaw2.bsky.social · 4w agoAnd now... the 2026 ringing stats are in! Nest 1 Female 5K4, 1780g Female 5K5, 1680g Nest 2 Male 8K0, 1440g Female 8K1, 1740g Female 8K2, 1560g They hatched at 50g so after 6 weeks are 35 times the size! #Birds #Nature #Cumbria
A few from a much cooler than everywhere Outstrays and Kilnsea. Little gulls,9 with black headed, dunlin, 10, Mediterranean gull, 3 & sandwich terns. + 2 black tailed godwit, little egrets, little terns pair of Marsh harriers, avocet & greenshank 3. @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social
Not a bad night's work around Wykeham RVP. @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social Near 11pm before nightjar seen and heard briefly. Plus 2 woodcock & tawny owl. Only Common buzzard, siskin & willow warbler from the Viewpoint. @mjthom.bsky.social
@yorkswildlife.bsky.social Grass wood in the rain yesterday blackcap, willow w chiffchaffs. Then up the Dale to Malham Tarn @yorkshiredales.org.uk with nice views of 5+ Raven, wheatear feeding well developed young and then 2 male redstart between showers taking food from a meadow back to nests.
Northumberland to @yorkshiredales.org.uk today via Teesdale @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social Quote 'I can't remember seeing a snipe on a post' then like buses 2 come along. Black grouse, 12; spotted flycatcher. Mistle thrush, grey wag @rarebirder.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social 🪶
Harthorpe Valley in the beautiful National Park @ntbirdclub.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social Dipper, spotted flycatchers. Many willow warbler, chiffchaff, raven, grey wagtail, barn owl, buzzards, kestrel, oycs, red leg partridge & aprox 10 tiny chicks & heard cuckoo.
The weather may have taken a 'tern' for the worse but this ranks as one of the best days. A thread, starting at Long nanny. Lifer Rose-coloured Starling, thanx finder, fab Arctic, little terns & after 2 hour wait, 2nd attempt American black tern @nattrustarch.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social 🪶
@ntbirdclub.bsky.social Yesterday dotterel at Lynemouth; garganey at Druridge; Goosander,not bad for a travelling day to Embleton. @mjthom.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social
Hull valley today Tickton to Leven canal. Common whitethroat, willow warblers (pictured) Lesser whitethroat, reed warblers, cetti's, blackcap, stonechats, swift, sandmartins & swallows, herons & great crested grebes. Little water at Swinemoor. @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social
Hot in the City & @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social @spurnterns.bsky.social today, heat haze didn't help. But happy with little terns Beacon ponds plus grey plover and whimbrel on the Humber. Dunlin, oycs, curlew, redshank, c ringed plover whitethroat, sedge & reed warb & wigeon @rarebirder.bsky.social
Spotted flycatcher seen on the Yorkshire Wolds above Elloughton yesterday pm. Heard blackcap & garden warbler. @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social
Grey wagtail feeding chicks, whinchat pair played hard to get, tree pipit kept quiet & whitethroat up on @northyorkmoors.org.uk Plus garden/ willow warblers, chiffchaff, blackcap & found purring turtle doves on a new territory (heard only). @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social 🪶
Hoopoe heard only at Bempton this morning, so no year ✅️ Corn buntings, Siskin, Song (& Mistle) thrush, linnets plus garden warblers, blackcap, willow chiffchaff & marsh tit around Wykeham forest. @flamboroughbird.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
Pied flycatcher from Padley in the sun yesterday. Lets see how the video comes out. Nikon P1100. Sound up for spring. 🪶
Great to spend time with singing pied flycatchers at least 10 males and females nest building, plus one Redstart seen in Padley gorge. Raven and this distant hobby hunting over the Burbage Moors. Whinchat &stonechat. @s-yorksbirding.bsky.social @nattrustarch.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
7 nfy along the River Hull Swinemoor & Leven canal, to add to 4 @northcavewet.bsky.social Saturday. Greenshank, surprise spoonbill, willow warbler & whitethroat pictured . Plus cuckoos, lesser whitethroat & yellow wagtail. @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
Great to see wheatear, golden plover, lapwing, curlew etc on territory @northyorkmoors.org.uk around Danby & Sleddale today. Plus several red kite, buzzards & kestrel. @northyorksbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @teesbirds.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social 🪶
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. @ukrbbp.bsky.social
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. @rarebirder.bsky.social @lincsbirding.bsky.social 🪶
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. @rarebirder.bsky.social @lincsbirding.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
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. @nybirdnews.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social 🪶
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. @flamboroughbird.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
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 @lincswildlife.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
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 😕 @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social
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 @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
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. @mjthom.bsky.social
