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Wykeham Forest & Bempton Cliffs

By YorkOC Posted on 9th June 2025 Posted in Trip Reports

This month’s club trip on 8th June started with a morning at Wykeham Forest. There were sixteen in the group and, having discussed our surprise at how many trees had been felled by the raptor viewpoint car park, we started …

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Flamborough Head 11th May

By YorkOC Posted on 12th May 2025 Posted in Trip Reports

A group of 14 intrepid birders swapped their buckets and spades for Scopes and Binoculars for what was a very hot and sunny day birding at the seaside. The weather was perfect for the myriad day-trippers who descended upon Flambrough …

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Dawn Chorus walk at Skipwith Common – 4th May

By YorkOC Posted on 10th May 2025 Posted in Trip Reports

An impressive eleven hardy souls met on the Common at 4.30 on what was a bright and sunny, though bitterly cold, morning and enjoyed a walk lasting about three hours. In contrast to last year’s significantly wetter Spring we were …

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Dearne Valley 6th April

By YorkOC Posted on 7th April 2025 Posted in Trip Reports

Sixteen of us enjoyed wall to wall sunshine on an excellent trip to the Dearne Valley yesterday (Sunday 6th April). We had a very good total of 78 species. Our route was Wombwell Ings, Old Moor RSPB, Adwick Washlands RSPB …

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Nosterfield – 9th March

By YorkOC Posted on 10th March 2025 Posted in Trip Reports

Places visited:  Nosterfield Quarry, Nosterfield Nature Reserve, and a “drive by” Ladybridge, Langwith and Well flooded fields. 23 members attended and 74 species were recorded (thanks to Paul for keeping the bird list on the day) A sunny but cold …

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Website updates

By YorkOC Posted on 23rd November 2024 Posted in Club News

We are making changes to some of the pages for submitting records to make it easier to submit records to the YOC Recorder for rarities. Please bear with us over this weekend if pages look a bit strange. Rarity records …

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Teesmouth trip 10th November

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

YOC Field Trip Sunday 10th Nov 2024. Places visited: Hartlepool Headland, Seaton Carew, Seaton Snook, Coatham Marsh & Greatham Creek. It was a full day out starting at Borough Hall Gardens, Hartlepool Headland at 8.30am and it was about 4.30pm …

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Spurn / Kilnsea – 7th October

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

Yesterday,16 of us met up at Kilnsea Wetlands for the club trip to the Spurn area. We arrived after high tide but the water was still covering the estuary, so we started at the wetlands to look for roosting waders. …

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Flamborough Head, 9th Sept 24

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

Despite a mostly foggy day (which killed any prospect of a seawatch!) 13 club members braved the conditions and had a wonderful day birding Flamborough Head.  Meeting at the lighthouse car park, we started at the Golf Course Willows, where …

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Gazetteer can be downloaded from website

By YorkOC Posted on 28th August 2024 Posted in Club News, Sightings

The annual report has for a number of years included a gazetteer of sites in the area, including OS grid references. A full list of these sites can now be downloaded as a pdf by clicking this button. If you …

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