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  1. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    The raptors section is rather empty!
  2. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    Which is another way of saying it could have been any size ;)
  3. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    Seems to be a really good spring for Lesser Whitethroat.
  4. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    The call is so diagnostic and loud there's almost no point 'looking' for GSWs. I'm struggling to remember the last time I saw one before I'd heard it call. http://www.xeno-canto.org/species/Dendrocopos-major?query=ssp:%22pinetorum%22
  5. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    Woo yay Otter
  6. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    And here http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/ourwork/conservation/designations/nnr/lowerderwentvalleyhowtogetthere.aspx
  7. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    And it was the only duck on the lake. It's been soooo grim there the last couple of years I wonder why I bother at all (new owners = dog walking, swimming, boats, hates birders) so it's nice to get something decent :eek!:
  8. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    Updates on my blog have been erratic this year but I've had a bit of a splurge over the last week with some photos from July-November that are even worse than my laziness. http://kelkbirds.blogspot.co.uk/
  9. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    If you haven't already seen it... http://www.yorkshiredragonflies.org.uk/
  10. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    Cats on the Internet? It'll never catch on...
  11. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    Seawatching.
  12. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    This is an interesting if rather depressing book, "Birds, Scythes and Combines". One conclusion in the book is that most of the bird loss in farmland (the situation is obviously different for non-farmland birds) in the last 40 years is a combination of a) increasingly effective chemical...
  13. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    Pleased with my weekend: Blue-headed Wagtail on the patch.
  14. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    That intrigued me... most sources suggest they eat "berries, fruits, seeds and nuts" without being specific, though bird tables are noted as the main source of food. This ref also says, in terms of farmland: "In Britain rose-ringed parakeets have been observed feeding on fruits such as apples...
  15. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    Meadow Pipit... Rock/Water has dark(er) legs.
  16. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    There's a couple of pics on the Yorks FB group. The poor thing is still waiting for anyone to say something nice about it ;)
  17. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    Nice one :t: Are they really "Yorkshire's first urban breeding pair"?
  18. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    Liverpool One (multi-billion quid massive shopping mall) was on budget and on time. It was also not a publicly funded project ;) But yeah, anyway, birds n stuff.
  19. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    Facebook hasn't reached Norfolk yet :news:
  20. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    Poss the same bird on 23rd along Kelk Beck (~20 miles NE)
  21. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    Northernlagoons
  22. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    Not at all, they're a menace.
  23. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    Majority of those aren't rare tho'
  24. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    Have there been any rarities on the Yorks coast this autumn? Still time yet I suppose...
  25. liverpool_bob

    Yorkshire Birding

    Nice surprise on the patch this weekend... and yes I'm ticking it :t: http://kelkbirds.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/goose-unexpected.html
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