January 2021 meeting
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 …
December Quiz & Review
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 …
Website maintenance 3rd October
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. …
2019 Report published
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 …
2020 Programme cancellation
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 …
Red-footed Falcon at Biggin (SE53)
Sometimes, the discovery of a rare bird can be attributed to a fortuitous chain of events. On 15th June, Craig Storton, a birdwatcher and bird photographer chatted to a farmer near the small village of Biggin, in the southwest of …
Lockdown Bird Quiz May 2020 – Updated with answers
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 …
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Lockdown Red-rumped Swallow!
Jono Leadley turned up an exciting find yesterday when he came across a Red-rumped Swallow at Acaster Malbis during his daily lockdown exercise. A quality bird and only the fourth for the York area, if accepted! Read his account and …
Covid-19 cancellations – update
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 …
Covid-19 cancellations
In light of government advice for everyone to avoid social gatherings and to keep social ‘distance’ over the next few weeks in an attempt to contain Covid-19, the Committee has had to bow to the inevitable and postpone the April …