@james-bya.bsky.social
18 y/o Yorkshire birder/photographer/twitcher Life list 382 (marsh sandpiper)
After 3 trips and three dips it was amazing to finally get ID’able views of white-winged scoter at Musselburgh yesterday life✅ 381! The marsh sandpiper was showing well too, life ✅ 382. Red necked grebe and curlew sandpiper weren’t a bad support act.
27.09.2025 14:13 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pechora pipit in Durham today, life ✅ 380! Great to see so many familiar faces. Mega way to kick off autumn.
21.09.2025 22:48 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pectoral sandpiper from @ldvnnr.bsky.social this afternoon, an amazing find by @duncbye.bsky.social .Yorkshire ✅ 307 and @yorkbirding.bsky.social ✅ 193. great to see the clouded yellow butterfly at bank island too.
11.08.2025 00:04 — 👍 61 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Incredible three lifer day down south yesterday. Bonapartes gull life ✅ 377 at oare, then life ✅ 378 black stork at boyton then life ✅ 379 the very vocal zitting cisticola to finish. Great to see @bird3r.bsky.social too
06.08.2025 10:58 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stone curlew from outstrays yesterday, ✅ 306 for Yorkshire. Diabolical heat haze though
03.08.2025 13:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Recent life ticks, song sparrow and ortolan bunting bringing my life list to 376 and my Yorkshire list to 305
10.07.2025 19:36 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's all about the context! Twitched a local Dipper this evening, a real York area mega. Presumably forced out of some moorland stream by the drought, to the River Foss. A confiding juvenile and a much-enjoyed York area tick! With @james-bya.bsky.social @yorkbirding.bsky.social
10.07.2025 19:28 — 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Young Dipper on the foss by new earswick nature reserve with @birdingdad.bsky.social earlier this evening. @yorkbirding.bsky.social
10.07.2025 19:33 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Lesser white fronted goose and black scoter, life ✅ 373/374 from a trip west last month, black scoter showed well not that it looks like it from my photo 09/03/2025
25.04.2025 14:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just back from a trip to the Netherlands with Dad, The obvious highlight was the Texel Spectacled eider which stayed annoyingly distant. Other highlights included bluethroats and Lelystads Pygmy cormorant and storks. Big thanks to @david-walsh.bsky.social and @noahbai-123.bsky.social for the info!
11.04.2025 16:42 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Life ✅ 372 Eastern yellow wagtail in Lincs this morning. Quite flighty whilst I was there but the distinctive call made it relatively easy to pick up in flight.
24.02.2025 11:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mega weekend down south with 2 lifers. First was booted eagle at Marazion yesterday morning ✅. Nice to find a yellow browed warbler whilst dipping pacific diver afterwards. Today least sandpiper at Steart was life ✅ 371. Then incredible views of Kentish plover to finish!
03.02.2025 09:17 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Amazing day in Northumberland despite dipping the ross’ gull. 2 life ✅ included the white billed diver and the buff bellied pipit, both showed very well! Other highlights were ring-necked and 40+ long tailed ducks. Great to see @bird3r.bsky.social and meet lots of new people too.
11.01.2025 19:38 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Clockwise from top left: pale legged leaf warbler, Hudsonian godwit, northern waterthrush, stejneger’s scoter
Clockwise from top left: bridled tern, indigo bunting, dark-eyed junco, myrtle warbler
Clockwise from top left: pallid harrier, black-winged pratincole, collared flycatcher, Caspian tern
Clockwise from top left: northern lights, canvasback, waxwing, white stork
2024 was an amazing year for birding and it was great to share it with so many old and new friends. Migfest was a highlight especially with a co-found pallid harrier! 16 lifers takes me to 367 for the end of the year!
01.01.2025 23:00 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Having done the long trek to Kent yesterday very grateful I saw the Ryhope scops owl back in 2017! Photo of my photo shown here.
27.12.2024 17:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Perhaps the best photos you’ll ever see of American yellow warbler and firecrest, taken at New Hythe GPs this morning. Phone binned since I foolishly left my camera at home. Warbler is life ✅ 367! Great to see so many familiar faces.
26.12.2024 13:06 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Life ✅ 366 and Yorkshire ✅ 303, snow geese at swine moor this afternoon
22.12.2024 16:30 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Little gull from bank island @ldvnnr.bsky.social on Friday. An overdue @yorkbirding.bsky.social ✅ for me
19.12.2024 14:18 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Black redstart on York minster
Hoopoe in Stamford bridge
Some recent @yorkbirding.bsky.social ticks for my first post on @bsky.app
03.12.2024 13:07 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
