Club Outing to Aberlady Bay
Eleven members went to the Firth of Forth area at the weekend (11th – 13th November) and the weather was mostly good with excellent light and a total of 98 species seen. John went via the A68 seeing Red Kite …
Category: Trip Reports
East Coast – Hartlepool 6th Nov
With the Met Office forecasting gale force winds and heavy rain on the Yorkshire coast, the club’s east coast trip headed for Hartlepool where it was predicted to be relatively calmer. The eleven of us reconvened at the Headland for …
East Coast trip October 9th
The York Birding club trip on Sunday 9th October was to Flamborough Head. A walk around the Outer Head revealed a fine immature female Ring Ouzel, a male Redstart and Bramblings, along with plenty of continental Robins, Redwings and Goldcrests, …
Teesside Trip 11th Sept
Seven members attended the September field meeting of the YOC and headed to Teesside as planned. First port of call was Coatham Marsh, Redcar, where we noted some evidence of migration with good numbers of Swallows and Meadow Pipits moving about and a …
Hes East evening walk 31st Aug
On a lovely sunny evening, a new club record of 26 of us joined John at Heslington Church car park to set off on a walk round Heslington East. Views from this end of the lake yielded a couple of …
Evening walk along POCKLINGTON CANAL 26th July
YOC evening walk along POCKLINGTON CANAL from Hagg Bridge on 26th July Despite being rather overcast, a near club record of twenty two of us joined Terry at 7pm for an evening walk along the canal from Hagg Bridge walking …
June Field Trip to SE77
Sunday was the last outing before the Summer and 14 members went to SE77 ( The North East section of the Club recording area) This area is in part under recorded although to the South it contains Castle Howard Lake and …
Norfolk Weekend 13-15th May
A total of fifteen of us went on the weekend trip to Norfolk, six of us setting off on Friday morning and going via Whisby and Frampton Marsh to meet up with the other nine who were already there having been on …
East Coast trip 8th May
13 Members went to Spurn and had a reasonable day. Max temp was 15 and not the heat of York but it was sunny. We had some 72 species and highlights were. Little Egrets, Brent geese, Avocets, Common Sand, Short-eared …
Strensall Common evening walk
Report by Peter Reed Despite the gloomy prospects, after hail storms in parts of York and Strensall a few hours before, a optimistic group of about 12 met for this evening walk. At the last minutes, the venue had be …