100% of each sale goes straight to the Friends of the #LDV charity, or if you’d like to support their Corncrake fundraising campaign, books can be claimed as rewards – every penny counts with Aviva very generously matching each donation made 💰 communitiesfund.avivafoundation.org.uk/p/lower-derw...

Only 4 weeks to go until the Seabird Festival starts! Join FBO’s expert seabird guides for seawatching and evening walks marvelling at the 100,000’s of breeding birds of the headland. Details here on how to book flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/events/seabi...

#YorkshireBirding #UKBirding

Our wild bird crop is starting to burst into life. Huge thanks to @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social for paying for the seed to enable us to provide food for wildlife this next winter.

A Woodchat Shrike and Golden Oriole today’s star sightings also 24 Spotted Flycatcher, Whinchat, Grasshopper Warbler, Hobby, Little Egret and Red Kites. Full details here flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/23...

Woodchat Shrike at Flamborough Head yesterday. An absolute treat to see. Only seen 1 of these before. #birds #ukbirding #yorksbirding #ukbirds @flamboroughbird.bsky.social #woodchatshrike #shrikes @manchesterbirder.bsky.social

Join FBO for the Seabird Festival on the 27th & 28th of June to celebrate the iconic breeding birds of the headland. Open Seawatch observatory and expert evening guided walks, it’s not to be missed!

Revisiting guest blog, by Mike Joseph, from May 2021 linking moorland burning & air pollution in the Peak District. 'for many hours residents of the upper Hope Valley were subject to abnormally high levels of particulate pollution'. Full blog: markavery.info/2021/05/01/g... #heatherburning

Thanks to @ldvbirder.bsky.social for the image 📸

NEWS: study shows grouse moor heather burning important source of harmful particulate pollution affecting large numbers of people. @universityofleeds.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social Blog: markavery.info/2026/05/19/m... 📷Mark Avery, Bob Berzins

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... These thieves don't want rescuing, they need re-nationalising; with NO compensation; fining/prison for directors for polluting the rivers they supposedly protecting,

📢 New IMR study on movement patterns of #BaskingSharks shows that sharks tagged above the #ArcticCircle in #Norway perform repeated large-scale movements to subtropical waters and actively use the water column across habitats.🧵 1/5 👉 doi.org/10.3354/meps... @whoi.edu @thembauk.bsky.social

Long time since I’ve heard this. Great song and video.

Love the slow-motion videos of dancing mayflies in this.

Eiders, Sandwich Terns and Manx Shearwaters featured on the seawatch, on land Common Sandpiper, Cetti’s Warbler, Redstart and 3 Redpoll. Full details here flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/28...

Wednesday 22 April Cliff Wood SYorks Pied Fly 3m 2f

3 days to go...can you help us record in Hull?! 🍃 All records collected during the City Nature Challenge are incorporated into our database and help local-decision making in our area: uk.inaturalist.org/projects/cit...

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

Night Into Day open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Little Don Valley today Ring Ouzel 4m2f, Pied Fly 1m, Wheatear 1m, Stonechat 1m. Curlew2, Bit windy.

Our Director, Simon, would like to thank the @ynuorg.bsky.social YNU Lepidoptera Group for the hospitality at their Annual Meeting at Bramham on Sunday. The 2025 reports were fascinating and suggested some interesting patterns in the distribution of both butterflies and moths.

Excellent report on marine recording on the Yorkshire coast

Sunny weather meant time out=birds in! 2 Cranes over South Landing, 9 Barnacle, 1 Egyptian and 62 White-fronted Geese, Black Redstart, 20 Snow Bunting at North Marsh with 15 more at Buckton while a Short-eared Owl was at RSPB Bempton. Full details here flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/14...

Great to see some good news in the local press - well done @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social! #YorkshireBirding

Two years on from the Yorkshire Marine Nature Partnership priority setting workshop, delegates from 21 of the partnership's organisations, including NEYEDC, have come together today to review work to date & feed into future plans for marine recovery 🐚 yorkshiremarinenaturepartnership.org.uk

We have a new piece published today on our website, the next instalment of our 'Spotlight on...' local groups series. This time, we're sharing the work of Sheriff Hutton Hedgehog Group, and how we're supporting them: www.neyedc.org.uk/updates-insi... 🦔

Hear from Dr Ellie Leech, Head of our Ringing & Nest Recording Team, as she talks about positive breeding success for 14 species, and the value of data gathered by BTO bird ringers. #Ornithology

It's useful to see and understand how the Woodcock are using the wider area beyond the designated and protected sites - always more to discover/learn 🐦 Huge thanks to our team for all the hours spent after dark building up this valuable data set 🔦

This book is available at the price of £25 with all funds going to the Friends of the #LDV and towards supporting conservation/research projects across the reserve 🐦🦆🪶 If you'd like to pre-order yourself a copy please contact [email protected], thank you @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Wildfowl featured on the seawatch with Long-tailed Skua , 4 Little Auk and Black-throated Diver. Dusky Warbler still, 3 Firecrest, Long-eared Owl, Black Redstart and 5 Snow Bunting. Full details here flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/15...

Seawatching was the order of the day with Leach’s Storm Petrel the highlight, 3 Sooty Shearwater, Blue Fulmar, 4 Great Northern Diver, Long-tailed Duck and Little Auk. Also Merlin, 7 Snow Bunting and Black Redstart. Full details here flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/14...

Always fascinating to see new @btobirds.bsky.social Ringing & Nest Recording report. Willow Tits at new low, no nestlings ringed at all, just 6 nests monitored. Ringed Marsh Tit halved from 2010. No Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers ringed in UK for 2nd yr running. www.bto.org/get-involved... #ornithology

Royd Moor viewpoint vismig 10-11. Pinkfeet 460 in 3 skeins NE; all SW: MPipit 55, Skylark 6, Fieldfare 8, Redwing 8, Chaffinch14, Siskin20, Linnet 2, Starling 6

First session done!! Highlights being adult Pomarine Skua, Black Tern, 2 Little Tern, several Sooty Shearwater and lots of Little Gull. See you back at the observatory at 4pm!

@Barnsleybsg Quail calling from grassy field in between Scout Dike and Royd Moor 11.00-11.15 (follow gully up from Scout Dike south bank)

Great year for Curlew in the #LDV with another brood found newly hatched this morning and left in peace. This was the 34th brood seen on the reserve this year – fingers crossed now for good fledging success 🐣

Whimbrel and Grasshopper Warbler at Broadstones Res this a.m. Also 2 Tree Sparrows, Garden W and Stonechat on the heath and Raven over.

Scout Dyke (S Yorks) circular today. Wheatear 1, Garden W 5s, Willow W 13s, Whitethroat 5s, Tree Sparrow 5, Yellowhammer 3s, GCG 8 + 1 sitting

My first Swallow of the year flew past me at eye level at Wilthorpe marsh this morning. Always nice to see them back. 😀. Also, Little Owl, Green Woodpecker, 8 Buzzards, Kingfisher, 2 Cetti’s Warblers and 10+ Chiffchaff. @barnsleybsg.bsky.social @lunnjeff.bsky.social

6 March Broomhill 3 Goldeneye, The Fleet 1 Water Pipit, Wombwell Ings 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Green Sand, 2 Shelduck, 2 Oystercatcher. Lapwings, Redshank & Skylarks starting to display.

A summary of this important new paper is available as WaderTales blog #144: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h... #ornithology

East of the Dykes an adult Iceland Gull, 3 Goldeneye, Grey Plover, Woodcock and 26 Snow Bunting while 30+ were seen at RSPB Bempton with Merlin and Corn Bunting and Jack Snipe at Buckton #Yorkshirebirding flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/4t...

A quieter day with Red-necked Grebe and Yellow-legged Gull on the seawatch, Great Northern Diver on the sea and Black Redstart on the south cliffs. flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/11...