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A total of 18 teams took part this year covering their selected areas around Yorkshire. The recipients of this years sponsor money will be ‘The English Twite Recovery Project’ and will go towards helping Twite in Yorkshire. Many congratulations to …
Michael Clegg Memorial Birdrace. Sunday 8th January 2017 Read more »
York has had a decent couple of weeks of Waxwing sightings since Christmas. Following a couple of individual records in late autumn and early December, up to a dozen were seen near the Swan pub in the Bishopthorpe Road/Nunnery Lane …
There is a new spreadsheet for recording your sightings in 2017. It is available on the Yorkbirding website at https://yorkbirding.org.uk/records/. Instructions are on the ‘guidance’ tab. It uses the BOU’s newer standard vernacular names, as per the 2014 and 2015 …
Duncan Bye noted two colour-ringed Little Egrets at Wheldrake Ings among the large count of 26 Grey Heron and 16 Little Egret at the Pool hide on the morning of the 23rd July. He has received details back from the ringers: J9 = …
Tim Jones, assisted by Chris, Jack and Ollie, lead a very well attended gull demo/field trip this morning at Rufforth. The turnout was one of the highest ever in recent times for a field trip with 21 people including the …
An American Wigeon has been present at Castle Howard Great Lake since Friday and has been reported again this morning. Keep an eye on the @YorkBirding Twitter feed on the home page for the latest news.
A Great Skua (Bonxie) was found at Wheldrake Ings on Thursday morning. Yesterday Ollie Metcalf described its attack on a Grey Heron: “Amazing spectacle at Wheldrake this morning. I arrived at 08.15 when the bonxie was sat peacefully on the edge …
Chris Gomersall posted to the YorkBirding Google group this evening about a superb set of gull records at Rufforth. “A remarkable day today at Rufforth, between Dave Foster and myself we had a minimum of 13! Caspian gulls ( 6x …
Three teams from the York area competed in the annual Yorkshire Bird Race last Sunday, 3rd. York Upstarts started really early around 4 a.m. by torchlight and recorded 93 species and visited 18 sites. Highlights included Long and Short-eared Owls, …
Jonathan Pomroy posted the following at lunchtime today: Great views of a Hawfinch in the [Ampleforth] churchyard this morning. First in surrounding trees then dropping down to yews in the middle. As ever very elusive when feeding. If you make …