Depending on your view but to me it was the first real bite of winter today. So I thought I would do a quick bird species survey in our recording area, just to see if the weather had brought anything new…
Ring-necked parakeet alert…
A bit of a surprise this one…a feeding female Ring-necked parakeet in the Low Moor area! The species is fairly common in the south and slowly spreading north. To date I have two previous records of this species but never…
Plenty in reserve at the group workday…
On Saturday morning our group had it’s monthly workday. There was another good turnout of volunteers armed with mattocks to continue removing the Silver Birch saplings from the lowland heath area. However, today we had some special guests, Karen a…
Vismig comes to an end…
Yes I have to admit that watching visible migration in our area is just about over for another year. I watched this today and like the last two mornings there has been little passing through. But getting up before dawn…
What that in the sky?…
At 06.50 this morning I was just setting off to watch visible migration when I saw the spectacular Venus-Jupiter conjunction where both Venus and Jupiter can clearly be seen together in the sky. Jupiter is at the top and Venus…
Hawfinch alert…
Another Hawfinch flew west over the watch point this morning at Caldene fields. However, there was a strong possibility that a second bird came in a couple of minutes later. This bird dropped into some trees around the Wyke area.…
Hawfinches…
Following on from the Hawfinch I had on 26th of October which flew south just overhead at Caldene fields a further two birds were seen this morning at 9.24. They came in from the north again just overhead and veered…
Hawfinch…
A calling Hawfinch came in from the north at 07.58 and flew directly over the watch point at Caldene fields today…A super bird and very uncommon here.
Whats that noise…
Yes a lovely welcome autumn sound this morning at the watch point, Pink-footed geese as they made their way to the east, 394 and a further 166 directly overhead to the N/W…
Fun at the ‘Wild Day Outing and recent sightings…
There was certainly some fun going on at the Woodlands cricket club on Sunday. Sarah from the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust was busy with the children making name badges from leaves, wooden bracelets and whistles out of Elder. Then in the…
