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Mainly here for the birds.
UK lifelist #303 white-throated needletail
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- The Fillingham @lincsbirding.bsky.social Great grey shrike was matched by the weather and kept distant. The grey partridge pair by a busy roadside where a little closer and a nice year tick ✅️ Also Yellowhammer, whoopers goosander and red kites. @btobirds.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
- Beaver 🦫?
- An hour after work rewarded, time spent with the Best bird currently in East Yorkshire. Male Hen Harrier huntingSaltmarsh... you won't persuade me otherwise. 🤩 Also barn owl for the year list. @humbernature.bsky.social @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social #bbcwinterwatch
- #BigGardenBirdwatch Saturday morning 🌄 Despite Sparrowhawk & buzzard disruption briefly, a healthy total 40 of 15 species. 7 Long-tailed tit most difficult to count 🍭 😆
- Wet, windy & on higher ground foggy around Wykeham & Scarborough. 6 species nfy. Marsh tit, treecreeper, nuthatch, turnstone and in the harbour Red-throated and a great northern diver @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social @longnabbirder.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social 🪶
- One of two bittern seen at @northcavewet.bsky.social by @mjthom.bsky.social Also great spotted woodpecker amongst many others @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
- North Duffield carrs: Scaup, dunlin, redshank, great egret, pintail, wigeon, stonechat marsh harrier and with patience and rain eased briefly the magnificent white tailed eagle appeared out of the gloom. Flew from River bank to distant tree ~12.. honest😶🌫️ @ldvnnr.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social
- Just what I said, as the One show is promoting it. Could have helped protecting Hawks in the wild.
- Highlights from @tophilllow.bsky.social 3 russian white-fronted geese first picked up on size as they flew by with greylags, then they slid in on the ice at Watton. Quick snap of redpoll before they flew off, whoopers near Wilfholme. @mjthom.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social
- A very icey @ldvnnr.bsky.social on Tuesday. Didn't catch up with the white tailed eagle this visit. Nice to see great egret & little at East Cottingwith. Most other birds seen were flying along the river from Aughton, marsh harrier buzzard & wildfowl incl pintails wigeon & teal. @mjthom.bsky.social
- @flamboroughbird.bsky.social @northcavewet.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social 2025 list ended on 210, same as last year. Most Yorkshire or Lincs, with a trip to NW Scotland in Spring. Outstanding birds topped by the White-throated needletail. Eastern black redstart
- White tailed Eagle short flight (west) from N Duffield carrs at 9:15. Currently not viewable @ldvnnr.bsky.social @yorkbirding.bsky.social
- 7 geese of 4 species, Tundra Bean, 3 Russian White-fronted Geese, 2 pinks & barnacle in a wet field Cloughton. GGShrike a no show. Bar tailed godwit, turnstone redshank & purple sandpiper Scalby Mills #Yorkshirebirding @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
- Fantastic birds around Welwick & Kilnsea E. Yorkshire Topped off by this short eared owl late on. 2 hen harriers & marsh, merlin, kestrels, buzzard, pinkfeet, brent & greylag geese. 3 great & little egrets, bl t godwit, redshank, lapwings & golden plover #spurnbirds @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social
- #Firstbirdofmyday a female Bullfinch on the sunflower seeds, through my new optics in great early light. #What's yours East Yorkshire birds 🪶
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- Whooper swan family of six near Wroot. @lincsbirding.bsky.social @s-yorksbirding.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social 🪶 No sign of the black throated diver at Westwoodside. Redpoll, Goldcrest & chiffchaff best of the rest.
- Dry land at a premium @ldvnnr.bsky.social North Duffield Carrs. Pair of disrant peregrine taking time out from terrorising the flocks of lapwing & golden plover. Marsh harriers, buzzard stonechat. Dunlin, heron, pintails, pochard, wigeon, teal, Fieldfares & Redwing. @nybirdnews.bsky.social 🪶
- In between the rain @tophilllow.bsky.social nice to see this Otter hunting at Watton. No smew to be found, But great numbers of duck incl Goldeneye, pintail, wigeon, teal, pochard etc. Lots of Redwing & fieldfares in the bushes plus marsh harrier. @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
- Stunning Eastern black redstart in Scarborough this morning. @nybirdnews.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social Almost 9 years since the Skinningrove bird @teesbirds.bsky.social 🪶
- Skipsea to Ulrome this mild morning. Black redstart f. opposite the church. Black throated divers 4, great crested grebes 16 on the sea. 20 + bottle nose dolphins feeding close in then south followed by great black gulls. Out of area for @flamboroughbird.bsky.social @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social
- Ring necked & alexandrine parakeets in Beech woods S. Yorkshire. Treecreeper, nuthatch, Jay, Goldcrest Long-tailed tit & fieldfares. @s-yorksbirding.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
- Ring necked & alexandrine parakeets in Beech woods S. Yorkshire. Treecreeper, nuthatch, Jay, Goldcrest Long-tailed tit & fieldfares. @s-yorksbirding.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
- A day @flamboroughbird.bsky.social that didn't quite go to script. No dusky but woodcock over whalebone bridge, c scoter & a black redstart at S Landing. Seawatching pm Bonxies 2, arctic skua, Manx shearwater, Little gulls, Brent. Leach's petrel great views slowly north @rarebirder.bsky.social 🪶
- Skeffling/ Weeton Outstrays @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social Merlin chasing dunlin, blackwits, avocet, curlew, grey & golden plover, Knot, lapwing, Whooper swans 6, l egret, heron, fieldfares Redwing, kestrel, buzzard and these Brent geese @mjthom.bsky.social
- Slavonian & black-necked grebe
- Enjoyable but windy day, started at Skipsea nice covey of 14 grey partridge, stonechat & skylarks. Highlight @flamboroughbird.bsky.social a Firecrest thanks @craigcthomas1.bsky.social for finding, last seen at pillbox near golf course willows. Fieldfares and Redwing in small flocks in off
- Great day at a grey South Landing @flamboroughbird.bsky.social . 💯s of Redwing, blackbirds and a few fieldfare over. Highlights at least 3 yellow-browed warblers, one joined Long-t tits to annoy this sleepy tawny owl. & Goldcrest, Rb merganser scoter, grey plover, dunlin, turnstone & rock pipit.
- Meanwhile in #Yorkshire @ldvnnr.bsky.social
- Beacon ponds pectoral sandpiper, dunlin, cr plover, sanderling, knott, redshank, merlin & late swallow Drama when a sparrowhawk picked off a dunlin from the flock dropping it grabbing it out the water, only for it to escape & fly off. @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social #spurnbirds
- Beacon ponds pectoral sandpiper, dunlin, cr plover, sanderling, knott, redshank, merlin & late swallow Drama when a sparrowhawk picked off a dunlin from the flock dropping it grabbing it out the water, only for it to escape & fly off. @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social #spurnbirds
- Pectoral sandpiper Beacon ponds #spurnbirds. Dunlin, Knot, sanderling merlin & a Swallow @rarebirder.bsky.social @flamboroughbird.bsky.social
- Nice to see you again Mark.
- What a fantastic bird, white-throated needletail at Scarborough Castle this morning, from Marine drive. After not finding it at Filey, thanks to the (re)-finder. No pic can justify this true mega, these certainly don't 😅. @nybirdnews.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social @markthebirder.bsky.social
- Migrants across @flamboroughbird.bsky.social dozens of Goldcrest, wheatear, lesser whitethroat & redstart old fall hedge. South Landing more crests, chiffchaff, blackcap and big mixed tit flock. Red throated divers and dolphins at sea. @rarebirder.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
- This afternoon @rspbbemptoncliffs.bsky.social @flamboroughbird.bsky.social Spotted flycatcher 2, whinchat, chiffchaffs, willow warbler, Goldcrest & treesparrows. @rarebirder.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
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- Red crested pochard, kingfisher, green woodpecker common sandpiper, 2 late swift @northcavewet.bsky.social @rspbblacktoftsands.bsky.social curlew sandpiper j. Ruff, snipe, spot red, greenshank, greensand, great egrets, w rail, beardies y wag & m harrier @rarebirder.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
- Red crested pochard, kingfisher, green woodpecker common sandpiper, 2 late swift @northcavewet.bsky.social @rspbblacktoftsands.bsky.social curlew sandpiper j. Ruff, snipe, spot red, greenshank, greensand, great egrets, w rail, beardies y wag & m harrier @rarebirder.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
- #SeawatchFestival @flamboroughbird.bsky.social Highlights Arctic skuas mainly south & chasing sandwich, com terns & little gulls. Peregrine & marsh harrier, Waders turnstone & teal s. Com scoter 2 N. Wheatear provided only reasonable photo. @mjthom.bsky.social @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social
- #spurnbirds Lots of lesser & common whitethroat at Sammys. Whimbrel on the Humber + dunlin, ringed plover & golden plover. Distant little stint at a quiet beacon ponds. 'They grow up so quick' avocet chick. @rarebirder.bsky.social @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
- Quality #waders @lincsbirding.bsky.social @Alkborough: Pectoral sandpiper, spot red, greenshank, dunlin, ruff, water rail, avocet, lapwings all spooked by a big female sparrowhawk on the deck far edge reeds -never seen that. Pics of pectoral Wednesday @mjthom.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social
- Oh dear, there were 2 avocet chicks there yesterday 🙄
- White-rumped sandpiper curlew sandpiper & Knot new for year. Great views but heat haze not helped at v warm Beackon ponds. Lots of common, sandwich & littleterns. Whitethroat & w warblers @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social
- Warm day @flamboroughbird.bsky.social seawatch highlights 2 Manx shearwater, Arctic Skua dark morph quite close just before midday south. C scoter flock North. Razorbill dad's feeding their young. @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
- An idea of the distance the stone curlew was keeping at Skeffling Outstrays in the wind yesterday. @nikoncameract.bsky.social🪶 @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social
