Every wildlife garden should have one!. What I hear you ask? The beautiful Firethorn/Pyracantha shrub. Why? Well there’s the lovely white flowers in spring that attract many bees and hoverfly species and then bright red berries feed hungry birds in…
Yesterday the skies were sunny and bright for me metaphorically speaking. After my shortened vis-mig watch as autumn migration is almost over I decided to go to Raw Nook Nr & TH Beck as I was on a mission to…
This afternoon at Raw Nook Nr I caught a glimpse on a small flying dragonfly….In November! Thankfully the insect landed nearby and I managed to ID it as a late male Common Darter – Sympetrum striolatum. My latest ever record for the…
Vis-mig today was OK with the highlight been two large flocks of continental Starling that came in from the N/E. One party was estimated to contain 450 birds and all flying fairly low…an excellent autumn sight! Recently I have been…
Yesterday there was little vis-mig due to the blanket fog. The little bit I did produced 3 skeins of Pink-footed geese moving N/W I could hear them but couldn’t see them in the fog. I then walked to Raw Nook…
Wow! what a day at the vis-mig point. Wood Pigeon were on the move again and the conditions were just right cold with good visibility up to 20 miles. It was an unprecedented morning !!! With my previous WP record…
Wood Pigeons have been moving S over and to the E of the watch point for the last few days. I must admit I was surprised that the birds would start to move with a strong headwind…but they did. On…
Following on from our Fungus foray on the 20/10/20 Peter Gurney YWT who attended the foray found another photo of a fungus Spinellus fusiger Bonnet Mould which was not added to the original list! And even better it’s a new…
On the 20th of October I attended a Fungus foray at Raw Nook NR lead by the very knowledgeable Kat Woolley of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. This follows on from last years successful fungus survey by Kat on the 22/10/19.…
It’s been a busy few days at the watch point at Caldene fields. Favourable weather conditions allowed winter thrushes to take advantage and arrive in the UK on mass. The influx started here on the 13/10 with 515 Fieldfare and…
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