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 🪶

@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.

Little Gull on Kilnsea Wetlands this morning

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 🪶

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Coquet Island on #Puffincruises the rain held off. Great views roseate terns, sandwich and common tern puffins, eider, guillemots seals and dolphins right in the harbour mouth. @rspbengland.bsky.social @mjthom.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

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

Also a merlin that nearly flew into us in a failed chase of a lark or pipit as we were watching this roe buck walk towards us. @mjthom.bsky.social Sedge warbler another of spoonbill & willow warbler 🪶

#Swinemoor - a good morning albeit cold and a bit windy at times with 2 Wood Sand, 1 Barwit, Avocet pair, Oystercatcher, 2 LRP, Wheatear, Whitethroat, 1 WWag #patchbirding #PWC2026 #eastyorksbirding

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

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

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

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

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 . 🪶 @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social

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. @btobirds.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social

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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. @humbernature.bsky.social @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social #bbcwinterwatch

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 @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social @longnabbirder.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social 🪶

One of two bittern seen at @northcavewet.bsky.social by @mjthom.bsky.social Also great spotted woodpecker amongst many others @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

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. @mjthom.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social

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. @mjthom.bsky.social

Fantastic birds around Welwick & Kilnsea E. Yorkshire Topped off by this short eared owl late on. 2 hen harriers & marsh, merlin, kestrels, buzzard, pinkfeet, brent & greylag geese. 3 great & little egrets, bl t godwit, redshank, lapwings & golden plover #spurnbirds @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social

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 #Yorkshirebirding @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social

Whooper swan family of six near Wroot. @lincsbirding.bsky.social @s-yorksbirding.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social 🪶 No sign of the black throated diver at Westwoodside. Redpoll, Goldcrest & chiffchaff best of the rest.

Dry land at a premium @ldvnnr.bsky.social North Duffield Carrs. Pair of disrant peregrine taking time out from terrorising the flocks of lapwing & golden plover. Marsh harriers, buzzard stonechat. Dunlin, heron, pintails, pochard, wigeon, teal, Fieldfares & Redwing. @nybirdnews.bsky.social 🪶

In between the rain @tophilllow.bsky.social nice to see this Otter hunting at Watton. No smew to be found, But great numbers of duck incl Goldeneye, pintail, wigeon, teal, pochard etc. Lots of Redwing & fieldfares in the bushes plus marsh harrier. @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social

A jolly to Scarbados with the Mrs, hanging around in a graveyard in hailstorms & eating jacket potatoes while watching frolicking dolphins. By coincidence, there may also have been an Eastern Black Redstart involved. More: tinyurl.com/2utdr7wt @nybirdnews.bsky.social @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social

Stunning Eastern black redstart in Scarborough this morning. @nybirdnews.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social Almost 9 years since the Skinningrove bird @teesbirds.bsky.social 🪶

Ring necked & alexandrine parakeets in Beech woods S. Yorkshire. Treecreeper, nuthatch, Jay, Goldcrest Long-tailed tit & fieldfares. @s-yorksbirding.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social

A day @flamboroughbird.bsky.social that didn't quite go to script. No dusky but woodcock over whalebone bridge, c scoter & a black redstart at S Landing. Seawatching pm Bonxies 2, arctic skua, Manx shearwater, Little gulls, Brent. Leach's petrel great views slowly north @rarebirder.bsky.social 🪶

Skeffling/ Weeton Outstrays @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social Merlin chasing dunlin, blackwits, avocet, curlew, grey & golden plover, Knot, lapwing, Whooper swans 6, l egret, heron, fieldfares Redwing, kestrel, buzzard and these Brent geese @mjthom.bsky.social

Enjoyable but windy day, started at Skipsea nice covey of 14 grey partridge, stonechat & skylarks. Highlight @flamboroughbird.bsky.social a Firecrest thanks @craigcthomas1.bsky.social for finding, last seen at pillbox near golf course willows. Fieldfares and Redwing in small flocks in off

Black tern @northcavewet.bsky.social this morning @rarebirder.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social

Great day at a grey South Landing @flamboroughbird.bsky.social . 💯s of Redwing, blackbirds and a few fieldfare over. Highlights at least 3 yellow-browed warblers, one joined Long-t tits to annoy this sleepy tawny owl. & Goldcrest, Rb merganser scoter, grey plover, dunlin, turnstone & rock pipit.

Beacon ponds pectoral sandpiper, dunlin, cr plover, sanderling, knott, redshank, merlin & late swallow Drama when a sparrowhawk picked off a dunlin from the flock dropping it grabbing it out the water, only for it to escape & fly off. @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social #spurnbirds

Nice to see you again Mark.

What a fantastic bird, white-throated needletail at Scarborough Castle this morning, from Marine drive. After not finding it at Filey, thanks to the (re)-finder. No pic can justify this true mega, these certainly don't 😅. @nybirdnews.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social @markthebirder.bsky.social