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Yorkshire Birding
There definitely are peregrines on York Minster! Best place to look is the north face of the north-west tower from Dean's garden. If you are on Twitter, you can follow @yorkperegrines for regular updates Ollie -
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Yorkshire Birding
Hi Polly, Lots of farmland birds around the York area, which can be very easy to find, feel free to PM me for any local information. Also, things like golden plover, lapwing and other breeding waders should be back up on the moors if you have time, which is quite easy to do between York and the... -
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Yorkshire Birding
Hi all, for anyone planning to view the gulls around York. The owner at Rufforth has asked for no further access to the airfield. He says this is due to poor parking and trespass although I think it's more due to the increased numbers of birders lately. Regardless the police will be called now... -
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Yorkshire Birding
Please bare in mind that Skipwith is a sensitive site with several scarce ground nesting species plus other sensitive wildlife under immense pressure from dog walkers and etc. It will be very difficult to find woodlark at this time of year, but please don't be tempted to go off the paths... -
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Yorkshire Birding
It's the birdrace on Sunday, so will be out all day both days, probably a lot in the valley. Can let you know what's about, but having been fairly dry and warm most of winter, hopes aren't high. There are plenty of ruff, dunlin, whoopers, pintail etc around though, and a fair few pink-feet being... -
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Yorkshire Birding
But it will be full of photos from the far east for the foreseeable.There aren't really any websites atm, but you could get on the York ornithology club email list to get sightings, but not many people out birding atm -
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Yorkshire Birding
It may just be my monitor, but all I see is a normal chiffchaff with quite a lot of green and yellow tones in it? -
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Yorkshire Birding
God knows, it's autumn and easterlies, there will be some decent birds. -
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Yorkshire Birding
Hi Doc, thanks for that. I don't think I was being sarcastic in that instance, just noting that the bird news is for twitchers, who mostly consider continuously showing birds as showing well. With regards to robin-stroking etc, I wasn't calling anyone that, it was in a response to you-not... -
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Yorkshire Birding
Hi Doc, What was the point I missed? As far as I know, the bird news services are designed and set up for birders/twitchers. Having worked putting out bird news, it's often quite apparent how many people want different things from bird news, and are quite prepared to blame the bird news, people... -
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Yorkshire Birding
You should set up a news service for photographers and people who don't use scopes, then you can put out the news exactly as you think appropriate -
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Yorkshire Birding
There have been several at Redhouse. Not been out to Poppleton for ages. I agree with some of the posters in here, it's been a decent year for cuckoo at least locally. Let's not make the decline in breeding birds more depressing than it already is. -
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Yorkshire Birding
You can easily see/hear 8-10 birds in a days birding in the LDV. Or you could a week ago, not sure if they're still singing that much. -
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Yorkshire Birding
Don't worry, NE will license them to be shot soon enough... -
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Yorkshire Birding
Hi guys, I am organising a pelagic trip leaving Whitby harbour over the early May bank holiday weekend, probably Saturday 4th, but this may be weather dependent. It will be for four hours in the morning and probably cost around £30-35. If anyone is interested, there are still spaces available... -
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Yorkshire Birding
Which way along the river zing? And how far? Cheers Ollie -
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Yorkshire Birding
Hi doc, have you seen the redpoll pics on the recent birding frontier posts? -
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Yorkshire Birding
sadly there is now way to view directly on to the tip anymore, so you can assume that any references to the tip are either birds in flight or in the surrounding fields. To make things worse, the birds are incredibly erratic, and seemingly choose fields at random to land in, have a recce first... -
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Yorkshire Birding
This is hardly a problem though, every large scale 'green initiative' at the moment currently gets savaged and doesn't have a chance to get off the ground. For me it's less of an issue of immediate reduction in carbon, and more of an issue of showing support for large-scale schemes that are... -
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Yorkshire Birding
No that's fine Ken, I am more than happy to admit that I travel too much. However, I don't understand the vitriol directed at every new idea and development in this country, that could actually eventually change the way we travel (imagine getting on a fast train from Leeds and being in the south... -
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Yorkshire Birding
"Ollie - these "minor nature reserves" are hardly Minsmere, but they are some of the most bird-rich areas in South Yorkshire. They are also important wildlife corridors through a urbanised landscape, providing pitstops for migrant birds and habitat for breeding birds. The reserves will not win... -
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Yorkshire Birding
No you're right, it's far better to live in a world where internal flights are the best and cheapest options, burning up vast amounts of fossil fuels and increasing global warming, than investing in new infrastructure to change the way we travel, reduce carbon emissions, and perhaps actually... -
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Yorkshire Birding
If there's a bit of fog etc, and some easterly winds or a front coming across from Scandinavia, it's not unusual to see flocks of thrushes piling in to the first bushes they see along the coast. The chance of this happening is probably higher at Spurn, as it is a bit less reliant on the weather...