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Whimbrel roost evening at Wheldrake Ings

By Duncan Bye Posted on 21st May 2024 Posted in Trip Reports

A great turn out on the evening of 29th April, saw 34 members meet at the Wheldrake Ings Car Park. Recent rain saw some of the footpath underwater, so Wellies were essential. The group split into two, with Jono Leadley …

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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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FaceBook page for the YOC

By YorkOC Posted on 9th May 2024 Posted in Club News

Tim Godson has set up a FaceBook page for the club. If you wish to follow it pleae click on https://www.facebook.com/groups/www.yorkbirding.org.uk/?ref=share_group_link&exp=8ce3

YorkBirding email not working – FIXED

By YorkOC Posted on 1st May 2024 Posted in Club News

Our YorkBirding email group, which runs using Google Groups, has been suspcnded by Google so is not working. It is not clear why as the content does not violate any of Google’s rules. I have put in an appeal to …

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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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Nitter / X ( formerly Twitter)

By YorkOC Posted on 15th March 2024 Posted in Club News, Sightings

We have managed to keep a link to X (formerly Twitter) timelines using Nitter for the last cople of months or so. Unfortunately, that has now come to an end and Nitter servers are all shutting down. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitter. The …

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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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Links to X timelines

By Rob Chapman Posted on 19th February 2024 Posted in Club News

The post https://yorkbirding.org.uk/recent-website-updates/ gave an update about some improvements to the website and included information about using Nitter to view the X (formerly Twitter) timelines. Unfortunately, it appears that this solution will not last for much longer. Nitter uses some …

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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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