Saturday, September 30, 2017

Little Stint and Rock Pipit

An excellent day out today with a very close little stint, rock pipit, wheatears and plenty of yellow wagtails. 


















This years wood pile so far.....

I just had to show you our wood pile for this year, it's massive !  And this is just the start, there are another 4 piles like this still to be chainsawed. We are not going to be cold this winter that's for sure! Thanks Tom x



Local osprey

It's always nice to find your own birds and this local osprey was no exception as it flew round us yesterday evening. 




Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Scops Owl, Ryhope, Co. Durham


A couple of short videos of the scops owl, just click on them to view.














What a fabulous day! The pager bleeped at 8.30am and by 9am we had eaten breakfast, done a pack-up and were out the door heading to Ryhope in County Durham for the scops owl. What excellent views we had and with a surprisingly small crowd, it was easy to get good views of the owl. We stayed for 3 hours and the owl stretched and scratched a couple of times and then snoozed and snoozed, looking quite happy and content. 

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

A fantastic day at Spurn

Wearing a brand new shiny ring ! 



It was a spotted flycatcher day for us today at Spurn with a few in the Crown and Anchor car park, in Cliff Farm garden and at Sammys. Lovely birds that are a pleasure to see.  

Lots of wheatears along the shoreline at Sammy's Point.  







We started the day at Easington Gas Terminal for the red backed shrike, looked for a good half hour before we decided it had long gone, so onto Sammy's Point to see what else was about. It was a good easterly wind and we had had rain early hours so we thought we could, at long last, be in for a good day. And we were not disappointed. Simon had soon picked up this cracking redstart and a walk along the foreshore gave us plenty of wheatears and a spotted flycatcher. 

Then onto Kilnsea for a yellow-browed extravaganza!  We had excellent views of quite a few in Cliff Farm garden and the pub car park along with a few pied flycatchers. A quick dash down Beacon Lane where we all failed miserably with the raddes warbler. This was later seen, so was still around near the caravan park entrance.

A fabulous day and a good catch up and laugh with the Yorkshire lads !

A local walk