Northumberland Weekend
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 …
Spurn 8th October
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”) …
Flamborough Head 3rd Sept
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: …
Heslington East Walk 6th Aug
Fifteen of us ‘did’ Hes East this morning. The weather was much better than the birds! We only managed 32 species, none of them unexpected. We struggled to have even a glimpse of a Reed Warbler for example, and Swallows …
Stamford Bridge Field Trip 9 July
An enjoyable day was had by the 22 attendees today firstly visiting Stamford Bridge Flash at the southern side of the Derwent a short way along the riverside path towards Buttercrambe Mill. 46 species were seen here including Spotted Flycatcher, …
Twitter feeds
Please bear with us as the Twitter feeds have broken in the last few days. This appears to be a worldwide problem caused by Twitter’s recent restrictions to prevent reading of Tweets without logging in. This is supposed to be …
Howardian Hills – Sunday 11th June
Five of us met this morning at Welburn church and walked from there into the Castle Howard estate. It was a warm, later very warm, morning, but still with enough birds singing and active to keep us occupied. An early …
Idle Washlands and Idle Valley – 7th May
Ten of us met up at the Ship Inn, Newington where we spent a few minutes watching the wetlands behind the car park, picking up some ducks, geese and Common Terns, while a couple of Cuckoos flew across. We then …
Spurn/Kilnsea 16th April
Ten of us had a most enjoyable day in the Spurn area. First of all we visited Kilnsea Wetlands where there was a Sedge Warbler by the car park, a small selection of ducks with Swallows and Sand Martins flying …