A quick trip out in my converted work van to Filey. Highlights were the 51 Sanderlings running along the tide line, at least 2 had rings on, 2 Razorbills out in the bay and 42 Oystercatchers on the top of the brigg on a very windy day.

It's not often you get a new patch tick, but today, with the ings now flooded, we got patch gold with 2 Goldeneye ✅️ @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Fab outing with @yorkbirding.bsky.social to @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Staveley and Ripon wetlands produced at least 54 Spieces Whooper swan Goldeneye Tufted Wigeon Shoveler Teal Gadwall Cormorant BH,LBB,C,H Gull Pink-footed R kite Buz Kes SPHawk GW+L Egret Stonechat 10s of thousands of Starlings

A few from @northcavewet.bsky.social this afternoon. Highlights 3 Redshank Ruff Whooper swan Pochard Teal Wigeon Gadwall Shoveler Little greeb Kestrel Heron LBB, BH, C, H gulls

Naburn cycle-track 25 lesser Redpoll 10 Siskin Reed bunting Goldfinchs 4 Redwing 90+ Black-headed gulls @yorkbirding.bsky.social

@rspb.bsky.social Fairburn Ings 49 species 8 Great White Egret Siskin Lesser Redpoll Goosander Red Kite Whooper swan Redwing GCGreeb L Egret Cormorant Cetti's (H) Pintail Stonechat Pink-footed geese Canada Bullfinch Tufted Gadwall Shelduck Lapwing Wigeon Teal Little Greeb trying to swallow a fish

Wheldrake Ings+Bank Island @ldvnnr.bsky.social Highlights of the 39 species Marsh Harrier 3 Buzzards Kestrel with prey Jay 2 GSWoodpecker Goldcrest Chiffchaff 55 Lapwings C200 GPlover Green Sandpiper C20 Wigeon 3 Snipe M Pipits 3 Cetti's (Heard) R Bunting 3 Cormorants Hare @yorkbirding.bsky.social

First waxwing, all be it a brief encounter, up on the Wolds, just off the Centenary Way nr Thixendale @yorkbirding.bsky.social #northyorkbirds

Nice walk around patch. Siskins and Redpolls staying in the same area. Goldfinchs Fieldfare over 4 Buzzard Red kite Goldcrests Linnets Rooks 12 Roe deer (5+4+2+1) @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Expected stormy weather today on a visit to @northcavewet.bsky.social but missed the rain and wind. Fairly quiet but still manged 40 species Highlights 8 Curlew Wigeon Gadwall Teal Tufted GSWoody 2 Stonechats Marsh harrier Peregrine Snipe Redshank Shelduck Bullfinch And a very confiding Pheasant

Good couple of hrs on patch today Highlights 6 Siskins 40+Lesser Redpolls Redwing Fieldfare Lots of migratory Blackbirds Reed buntings Goldcrests Goldfinches 50+ Linnets Buzzard, Kestrel, and 2 Red Kites over the garden. @yorkbirding.bsky.social

@rspb.bsky.social Blacktoft Sands Fairly quiet with the tide being out.(36sp) Highlights Marsh harriers Tree sparrows Teal Wigeon Cetti's Snipe Golden plovers SpHawk Whooper swan Curlew Kingfisher Redshank+Spotted Gadwall Kestrels Shovelers L greeb R buntings

A fabulous day with @yorkbirding.bsky.social at Spurn and Welwick Lots of Highlights Dark-Bellied Brent's Spotted and Redshank 3+Short-eared owls Marsh harriers 5 Glossy Ibis SpHawk Kestrels Bar+blk tailed godwit Pectoral sandpiper Caspian gull L egrets Ringed plover Med gulls 81 species

Corn buntings Gannets Guillemot Turnstone MPipits Rock Doves Pink-footed Geese Tree Sparrows Dolphins @rspb.bsky.social Bempton Cliffs

Here's the sunset we were watching while everyone else was watching the White-throated needletail 🙄

A good couple of days at Fiely with flat seas and sunshine GCGreebs Red throated divers Grey Wagtail Teal Shoveler Curlew c30 at Fiely Dams Snow bunting NFY Cormrants Shag 100+ Linnets Herons Redshank Oystercatchers Rock pipits Herring BH Gulls Painted lady butterflies Ruby tiger moth caterpillar

Sad to see a female Sparrow hawk dead at the side of the road today, probably flew into a car! A male Stonechat, first of the year for the ings. @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Approx 160 Linnets on today's walk from Naburn to Tillmire 3 Little egrets 6 Buzzards 15+ Chaffinchs B+G+LTTits Chiffchaffs Kestrels BHGulls GSWoodpecker 10 Yellowhammers Hares and Fallow deer And a ditch full of windfall apples @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Female Scaup was still at Hes East today. Giving good views and constantly diving for food. Gadwall Tufted Teal Cetti's Mallard Mute Swans Moorhen Greylags Also, Peregrine up on the chimney @yorkbirding.bsky.social

A few non birds from the weekend

Naburn Nuthatchs are very vocal at the moment, as we're the Tawnys last night! Herons showed well, and 5 Little egrets didn't like me getting the camera out Stonechats were also still around this morning. Corn bunting singing from its usual Oak tree Linnets Yellowhammers @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Autumn is starting to produce some nice birds on patch. It feels like it's been quite for too long. Last few days Siskins Flocks of Pink-footed White wagtail Yellowhammers Reed buntings 20+ Meadow pipits mixed with 20+ Skylarks and this morning 5 possibly 6 Stonechats.😁 @yorkbirding.bsky.social

A couple of hours @ldvnnr.bsky.social Wheldrake ings Highlights of the 26 species Buzzard 3-4 Red kites Sparrow hawk 2 Kestrels Whinchat Kingfisher Nuthatch (heard) 4 Green Sandpipers 2 Reed buntings Little egret 2 Bullfinchs @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Great day @rspb.bsky.social St Aidans 50 species Highlights 3 Lesser Redpoll 5 Great White Egrets Green Sandpiper 2 Black-tailed Godwit 4 Ruff 3 Snipe 3 Kingfisher 4 Stonechat 3 Red kite 4 Buzzard Marsh harrier SpHawk Little Owl Fairburn Lin dike 6 Cattle egrets C Sandpiper 6 R Plovers Shelduck

Naburn Lots of Chiffchaffs a few chiff chaffing C30 swallows passing through The usual Blue, Great, Coal, and LTTits Treecreeper The best for today was a small copper butterfly.

Wheldrake ings @ldvnnr.bsky.social Stonechat from Tower 6 Green Sandpipers 2 from Swantail and 4 from Pool during a heavy downpour 4 Buzzards Sparrowhawk Pied wagtails 2 Reed buntings 2 Kestrels Lots of Chiffchaffs Good numbers of Greylags over. @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Loads of acorns this year near us. Make sure you grab a handful and plant them. Oak trees help support over 2,300 Spieces. Even had a Greater Spotted Woodpecker stashing them in an old telegraphpole. (Never seen that before!) @yorkbirding.bsky.social

A couple of hrs round @ldvnnr.bsky.social Wheldrake ings Highlights 3 Whinchats Jay Red kite 2 Buzzards Green Sandpiper 2 Little egrets 3 Reed buntings Mallard Good No, of Gold Finches 2 Moorhen Swallows+H Martins Female common darter and a very low chinook C-47 @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Great day at a windy Flamborough with @yorkbirding.bsky.social Highlights Peregrine 4 Wheatears Arctic skewers Pied Flycatchers Redstart Whitethroat+lesser Sandwich Terns C Scoters Dolphins seals and a Porpoise Flocks Goldfinch+Linnet S.Landing Treecreeper Ringed plover Kestrels Pied wagtails 25+

East coast @rspb.bsky.social Bempton and Thornwick Bay Highlights Pied+Spotted Flycatchers Lots of Tree Sparrows Goldcrest Fabulous Gannets Fulmars Kittiwakes GBBGulls MPipits Stonechat HMartins+Swallows Teal Cormrants 3 Common Scoter

In amongst the other Greylags @northcavewet.bsky.social was this Greylag with a orange neck collar HUZ any ideas where it's from? @northyorksbirds.bsky.social

Just my luck, a weekend away from patch and a Guillemot turns up at the locks, with no sign this morning. @yorkbirding.bsky.social But on better note, a lifer for me @northcavewet.bsky.social with the Black-crowned night heron✅️ Also Red-crested Pochard Peregrine Hobby C+G Sandpiper Gshank LRP

@ldvnnr.bsky.social Wheldrake ings+bank island. Kingfisher 11 Snipe 7 Green Sandpiper 1 Black-tailed Godwit Buzzard F Marsh Harrier Swallows Swift H Martins Whitethroats Lesser Whitethroat Blackcaps Sedge+willow+chifs Little egrets 2 Grey Heron Pied Wagtails @yorkbirding.bsky.social

A couple of hours @northcavewet.bsky.social Highlights Peregrine Blacktailed godwit Greenshank 4 Green Sandpipers Juvenile Shelduck 2 Snipe Common Sandpiper Great Crested greeb sat on a nest Little egrets Little grebes LBBGull Just missed the water Rail 🙄 Tufted and Gadwall ducks

10 minutes from patch today to Hes East and Tilmire Peregrine Tufted duck Cormrant Little egret Greylags Mallards Moorhen Coot LBBGulls Whinchat Stonechats Redstart Meadow Pipits Grey Wagtail Chiffchaffs Whitethroats Linnets Buzzard Kestrel @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Morning walk round Wheldrake ings @ldvnnr.bsky.social Dipped on the Pec sand but made up with seeing 2 Clouded Yellow butterflies. 3 Blacktailed godwits 6 Green Sandpipers Buzzard Lapwings Snipe 3 little egrets Cormrant Marsh harrier Linnet Blackcap W warbler Bullfinchs @yorkbirding.bsky.social

13.5-mile circular walk from Hayburn Wyke to Scalby Mills and back via the Cleveland Way 70+Swallows, house+sand martins+ Swifts+wheatear getting ready to go! Loads of Gannets plunging just off Long Nab with Guillemots Kittiwake Fulmar Cormrant Lots of Painted Lady butterflies+small blue 9+Dolphins

1 of 2 Birding with @yorkbirding.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social Blacktoft Sands and @northcavewet.bsky.social Highlights BlktfSnds Green Sandpipers 3 Ruff 3 Spotted Redshanks 2 Water Rail Yellow wags Marsh Harriers (food passes to young) Snipe Black-tailed godwits Stonechats MPips Reed+Sedge

Fab first day of early retirement, spent @rspb.bsky.social St Aidans Highlights of the 45 species seen 2 Bitterns 2 Spoonbills (juv+adult) 2 Black-necked Greebs (juv+adult) 2 LRPlover Little Owl 8 Snipe Reed, Sedge Whitethroats F Blackcap Water Rail (Heard) Lots of GCGreebs and young. L Greeb

Common Terns feeding young in the pouring rain🌧🌧🌧🌧 @northcavewet.bsky.social

Wheldrake ings after a bit of a diversion. Road closed in village. @ldvnnr.bsky.social 2 weasels along the path 6 Green Sandpiper 4 Snipe 3 L Egrets 6 Lapwings Swifts Swallows S Martins Buzzard Red Kite Sedge warblers Grasshopper warbler reeling just before the rain! @yorkbirding.bsky.social

1 of 2 All quiet on the birding, except for YWags and Corn buntings, so I've started with mothing. Everything is NFY over 40 species. Highlights Poplar & Elephant Hawk moths Ruby tiger 6 spot burnet Buff Ermine Yellow Tail. lots of butterflies, too.

A good morning with @yorkbirding.bsky.social at Allerthorpe Common. Highlights Tree Pipit 3 Quail calling Family of Garden Warblers Yellowhammers Corn buntings Blackcap GSWoodpeckers Linnets. Then back on patch With 2 Six-spot burnet moths (my first on patch)

So excited to see Silver-washed Fritillarys back on the cycle path. 8 present today, including a dark (F.valezina) type. @yorkbirding.bsky.social @illutana.bsky.social

Naburn Started with little owl in its usual spot Lots of white butterflies Large, small, and green veined (60+)a big influx over the last couple of days. Ringlets, Meadow Browns, Small Tortoiseshell, and fresh out Commas.

Naburn Ings Whitethroats and Reed buntings with food for their young 60+ Greylags (c40 young) c20 Canada Blackcaps Willow warblers & Chiffchaffs c20 Sand Martins 2 Kingfishers Hundreds of Peacock caterpillars Cinabar moth (dead) Ladybirds Tansy beetles @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Naburn Corn buntings Yellow wagtails Yellowhammers Linnets Skylarks Stock Dove Little Owl Swifts C20 young Starlings. Arrived home just in time to see a Hobby fly over (G Tick✅️) Small Tortoiseshells and a very pale Painted Lady butterfly @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Naburn A short walk up the farm track. At least 4 Corn buntings 4 Yellow wagtails 5 Skylarks 8-10 local Swifts Lots of Small Tortoiseshell Butterflies @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Day 9 Scarborough to Fiely Gannets Razorbills Guillemots Fulmars Kittiwakes Herring Gulls Oystercatchers Lots of seals At least 30 Five-Spot Burnet moths in one small area. The Cleveland Way 109 miles of spectacular scenery and fantastic views done!!!