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. 

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. 

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