news about the club
POCKLINGTON CANAL WALK on TUESDAY 3rd AUGUST, meeting at 6.30PM at HAGG BRIDGE (SE716451). We hope there will be rejoicing that the YOC is going to be putting an evening walk on in just over a week’s time – our …
Please note the club’s policy on the reporting of rare and scarce birds which could potentially be breeding in the area. Sightings should only be sent to the Recorder, and to the LDV team if in the NNR. Please do …
Reporting Rare and Scarce breeding birds in the York area Read more »
Following the success of the trial online meeting in December, John Lawton will give his talk on Pub Birds on 5th January over Zoom. Information as to how to join will be sent by email to membership and subscribers to …
On 15th December, the club held its first meeting since March. This was a quiz and a slide show to review the birding year in the club’s recording area. We held the meeting using Zoom as a trial to see …
On 3rd October the website was upgraded to the latest version of WordPress and Responsive theme. This has fixed a few issues with displaying on mobiles and the Twitter feeds on the York Peregrines and York Swift pages are improved. …
I’m delighted to say that the 2019 Report has just been collected from the printers – thank you very much to our ColourOptions again who did the job very quickly – and will be either hand delivered or posted (for those …
The committee met recently and decided that regretfully, in line with other clubs in a similar situation, we have no choice but to cancel the programme for the rest of the year given the ongoing uncertainty about when gatherings (especially …
As the club is unable to meet on 5th May owing to the lockdown, we would like to encourage you to spend a bit of time this evening indulging your passion for birds and birding as you would if you …
Lockdown Bird Quiz May 2020 – Updated with answers Read more »
The YOC Committee regrets that, owing to the restrictions on gatherings and general movement for anything other than essential business plus the uncertainty about when it will be safe to meet up again, the YOC meeting and trips in May …