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Category: Trip Reports

Spurn trip – May 12th 2024

By YorkOC Posted on 14th May 2024 Posted in Trip Reports

A sunny and reputedly very quiet day beckoned at Spurn yesterday, with little of any note reported during the previous week.  Undaunted, 12 of us arrived at sunny Kilnsea Wetlands kicking off with Brent Geese in the fields over the …

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Dawn Chorus walk at Skipwith Common

By YorkOC Posted on 9th May 2024 Posted in Trip Reports

10 brave souls met in the Common Road car park just South of Skipwith village at 4:30 AM on Sunday 5th May, at a time when most sensible club members are safely tucked up in bed, for a dawn chorus …

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Tophill Low 7th April

By YorkOC Posted on 7th April 2024 Posted in Trip Reports

13 of us assembled in the car park at Tophill Low this morning for what turned out to be some great birding despite some very gusty strong winds whipping up big waves on the reservoirs. I have 58 species on …

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Wykeham & east coast

By Rob Chapman Posted on 10th March 2024 Posted in Trip Reports

Waking up to pouring rain wasn’t a good sign for success at the Wykeham Forest Raptor Watchpoint but we headed there all the same. Thirteen optimistic members met up in the car park to confirm that the visibility was very …

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YOC field trip to the LDV on Sunday 11th February 2024

By YorkOC Posted on 13th February 2024 Posted in Trip Reports

10 hardy members braved the rain to meet at the Bank Island car park at 8am. Two more members joined us as we made our way round the valley.With water levels still rising there was no access to the hides …

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Field trip to the southern end of the LDV – 10th December

By Duncan Bye Posted on 19th December 2023 Posted in Trip Reports

A good turn out of 15 members met up in the North Duffield Carrs this morning & with the weather being thankfully dry & calm we headed for the viewing platform. The water levels were very high, with only small …

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North Cave Wetlands & the Humber

By YorkOC Posted on 12th November 2023 Posted in Trip Reports

Early atmospheric mist greeted eighteen of us at North Cave Wetlands for today’s field meeting, this cleared later and, though it was chilly, it was a glorious morning to be out. A good selection of common duck, farmland and hedgerow …

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Northumberland Weekend

By YorkOC Posted on 18th October 2023 Posted in Trip Reports

18 of us had a wonderful trip to Northumberland over the weekend. The weather was fantastic and the birding excellent. Not everybody saw everything, but the cumulative list reached 119 once Monday’s sightings were included. The rarest bird was the …

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Spurn 8th October

By YorkOC Posted on 9th October 2023 Posted in Trip Reports

Nineteen of us met at Spurn Head yesterday and enjoyed a really memorable day. I had described it beforehand as arguably the best migration site on mainland Britain and it certainly lived up to that billing. Major arrivals (or “falls”) …

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Flamborough Head 3rd Sept

By YorkOC Posted on 4th September 2023 Posted in Trip Reports

Fifteen people met up for the outing, noting reasonable numbers of Swallows and some House Martins as we parked, these were seen in good numbers through the day. We started with a sea watch from the top of the cliffs: …

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