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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
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@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.
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John Hewitt
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Little Gull on Kilnsea Wetlands this morning
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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
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4 days ago
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5 days ago
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
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@ntbirdclub.bsky.social
Yesterday dotterel at Lynemouth; garganey at Druridge; Goosander,not bad for a travelling day to Embleton.
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@rarebirder.bsky.social
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8 days ago
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
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12 days ago
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
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20 days ago
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).
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27 days ago
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
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about 1 month ago
Pied flycatcher from Padley in the sun yesterday. Lets see how the video comes out. Nikon P1100. Sound up for spring. 🪶
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about 1 month ago
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.
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about 1 month ago
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
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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 🪶
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Darren (George) Best
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#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
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Great to see wheatear, golden plover, lapwing, curlew etc on territory
@northyorkmoors.org.uk
around Danby & Sleddale today. Plus several red kite, buzzards & kestrel.
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@nybirdnews.bsky.social
@teesbirds.bsky.social
@mjthom.bsky.social
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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
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2 months ago
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.
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@lincsbirding.bsky.social
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2 months ago
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.
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@lincsbirding.bsky.social
@mjthom.bsky.social
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2 months ago
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.
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@birdguides.bsky.social
@mjthom.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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
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3 months ago
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
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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
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4 months ago
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.
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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
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@northyorksbirds.bsky.social
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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 . 🪶
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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.
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4 months ago
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4 months ago
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
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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
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@longnabbirder.bsky.social
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5 months ago
One of two bittern seen at
@northcavewet.bsky.social
by
@mjthom.bsky.social
Also great spotted woodpecker amongst many others
@yorkswildlife.bsky.social
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5 months ago
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.
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5 months ago
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.
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5 months ago
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
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5 months ago
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
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@northyorksbirds.bsky.social
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6 months ago
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.
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6 months ago
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.
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6 months ago
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.
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Mark James Pearson
6 months ago
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
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Eastern Black Redstart, Castle Hill, Scarborough - 28th Nov '25
Another fabulous and accommodating rarity on Castle Hill after last month's Needletail (thanks again, Ben!), this beautiful male Eastern B...
https://northernrustic.blogspot.com/2025/11/eastern-black-redstart-castle-hill.html
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6 months ago
Stunning Eastern black redstart in Scarborough this morning.
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@rarebirder.bsky.social
@mjthom.bsky.social
@rspbengland.bsky.social
Almost 9 years since the Skinningrove bird
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Ring necked & alexandrine parakeets in Beech woods S. Yorkshire. Treecreeper, nuthatch, Jay, Goldcrest Long-tailed tit & fieldfares.
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7 months ago
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
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7 months ago
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
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7 months ago
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
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8 months ago
Black tern
@northcavewet.bsky.social
this morning
@rarebirder.bsky.social
@mjthom.bsky.social
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8 months ago
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.
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8 months ago
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
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8 months ago
Nice to see you again Mark.
add a skeleton here at some point
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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 😅.
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