Jeremy Pierson

They were very tricky!
What time were you there? Did I chat with you in the car park?

Clouded Yellow butterfly on a dandelion flower

Clouded Yellow butterfly on a nap weed flower

Green Sandpiper

Black-tailed Godwits

Morning walk round Wheldrake ings @ldvnnr.bsky.social
Dipped on the Pec sand but made up with seeing 2 Clouded Yellow butterflies.
3 Blacktailed godwits
6 Green Sandpipers
Buzzard
Lapwings
Snipe
3 little egrets
Cormrant
Marsh harrier
Linnet
Blackcap
W warbler
Bullfinchs
@yorkbirding.bsky.social

Swallows waiting on a wire

Gannets plunging

View out from Long Nab.

13.5-mile circular walk from Hayburn Wyke to Scalby Mills and back via the Cleveland Way
70+Swallows, house+sand martins+ Swifts+wheatear getting ready to go!
Loads of Gannets plunging just off Long Nab with Guillemots Kittiwake Fulmar Cormrant
Lots of Painted Lady butterflies+small blue
9+Dolphins

Marsh Harrier

Juvenile Spotted Redshanks and a Snipe in the background

Snipe

Black-tailed Godwits

North cave wetlands
Highlights
Cattle egret
Little egrets
Common Terns
C12 Egyptian geese
Little egrets
Little+GC Greebs
Red Kite
2 Shelduck
Pochard
Tufted
Gadwall

Egyptian geese

Cattle egret and Greylag

Water Rail and Green Sandpiper

Female Ruff

1 of 2
Birding with @yorkbirding.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social Blacktoft Sands and @northcavewet.bsky.social
Highlights BlktfSnds
Green Sandpipers
3 Ruff
3 Spotted Redshanks
2 Water Rail
Yellow wags
Marsh Harriers (food passes to young)
Snipe
Black-tailed godwits
Stonechats
MPips
Reed+Sedge

Cheers, Alan, I'll do my best!😉

Thanks, Al
Hopefully, there will be many more good days of birding to be had!

Juvenile Spoonbill pestering the adult by tapping its bill

Very Showy Bittern

Black-necked Greeb

Little Owl

Fab first day of early retirement, spent @rspb.bsky.social St Aidans
Highlights of the 45 species seen
2 Bitterns
2 Spoonbills (juv+adult)
2 Black-necked Greebs (juv+adult)
2 LRPlover
Little Owl
8 Snipe
Reed, Sedge Whitethroats
F Blackcap
Water Rail (Heard)
Lots of GCGreebs and young.
L Greeb

Juvenile Common Tern waiting to be fed

Juvenile Common Terns beeing fed

Juvenile Common Terns being fed in the rain

Juvenile Common Terns

Common Terns feeding young in the pouring rain🌧🌧🌧🌧 @northcavewet.bsky.social

2 Weasels running along the path

Little egret hunting

Green Sandpiper

Green Sandpiper, Snipe, and lapwings

Wheldrake ings after a bit of a diversion. Road closed in village.
@ldvnnr.bsky.social
2 weasels along the path
6 Green Sandpiper
4 Snipe
3 L Egrets
6 Lapwings
Swifts
Swallows
S Martins
Buzzard
Red Kite
Sedge warblers Grasshopper warbler reeling just before the rain!
@yorkbirding.bsky.social

Silver-washed Fritillary (Valezina) feeding on knapweed

Silver-washed Fritillary

Silver-washed Fritillary with wings slightly open on Buddleia

Large white butterfly.

2 of 2

Poplar Hawk moth

Elephant hawk moth

Ruby tiger moth

Six-spot burnet moths mating

1 of 2
All quiet on the birding, except for YWags and Corn buntings, so I've started with mothing.
Everything is NFY over 40 species.
Highlights
Poplar & Elephant Hawk moths
Ruby tiger
6 spot burnet
Buff Ermine
Yellow Tail.
lots of butterflies, too.

Yellowhammer with a beak full of caterpillars

Very distant Linnet

Tree Pipit

Six-spot burnet moths

A good morning with @yorkbirding.bsky.social at Allerthorpe Common.
Highlights
Tree Pipit
3 Quail calling
Family of Garden Warblers
Yellowhammers
Corn buntings
Blackcap
GSWoodpeckers
Linnets.

Then back on patch
With 2 Six-spot burnet moths (my first on patch)

You're welcome. They are stunning!!!
Possibly offspring from last year's?

Hi Jesika
No, it was on the cycle track next to Naburn Woods. South of Naburn village.
Only saw 1 last year and that was my first for over 30 years

So excited to see Silver-washed Fritillarys back on the cycle path. 8 present today, including a dark (F.valezina) type.
@yorkbirding.bsky.social
@illutana.bsky.social

Yellow wagtail

Buzzard soring

Corn bunting where it should be on the top of some Corn

Chiffchaff singing

5 Corn buntings
4 Yellow wagtails
Buzzard
14 Linnets
GSWoodpecker
Skylarks
2 Blackcaps
Whitethroats
Singing Chiffchaff
A couple of Swifts were tucking under roof tiles.
@yorkbirding.bsky.social

Small and green veined white butterflies taking moisture from the last remaining mud

Ringlet butterfly resting on grass

Naburn
Started with little owl in its usual spot
Lots of white butterflies Large, small, and green veined (60+)a big influx over the last couple of days.
Ringlets, Meadow Browns, Small Tortoiseshell, and fresh out Commas.

Whitethroat with a beak full of grubs

Msle Reed bunting with Caterpillars and flies for its young.

Peacock caterpillar on a stinging nettle

Naburn Ings
Whitethroats and Reed buntings with food for their young
60+ Greylags (c40 young)
c20 Canada
Blackcaps
Willow warblers & Chiffchaffs
c20 Sand Martins
2 Kingfishers
Hundreds of Peacock caterpillars
Cinabar moth (dead)
Ladybirds
Tansy beetles
@yorkbirding.bsky.social

Yellowhammer on the muck heap

Linnet

Yellow wagtail searching the parched soil for insects

My favourite "Little Owl" down at ground level

Naburn
Corn buntings
Yellow wagtails
Yellowhammers
Linnets
Skylarks
Stock Dove
Little Owl
Swifts
C20 young Starlings.
Arrived home just in time to see a Hobby fly over (G Tick✅️)
Small Tortoiseshells and a very pale Painted Lady butterfly
@yorkbirding.bsky.social

Yellow wagtail

Corn bunting on the muck heap

Skylark

Naburn
A short walk up the farm track.
At least 4 Corn buntings
4 Yellow wagtails
5 Skylarks
8-10 local Swifts
Lots of Small Tortoiseshell Butterflies
@yorkbirding.bsky.social

Wind swept bush's

The seat on Fiely Brig marks the end of the Cleveland Way walk.

View over to Fiely from the Brig

Day 9
Scarborough to Fiely
Gannets
Razorbills
Guillemots
Fulmars
Kittiwakes
Herring Gulls
Oystercatchers
Lots of seals
At least 30 Five-Spot Burnet moths in one small area.
The Cleveland Way 109 miles of spectacular scenery and fantastic views done!!!

Field of buttercups

Looking back to Robin Hoods Bay from Ravenscar

Long Nab bird observatory

Scarborough castle in the distance!

Day 8
Robin Hoods Bay to Scarborough
Fabulous to see a pod of Dolphins from the cliff top at Ravenscar, we followed them for about 3 miles down the coast.

Whitby Abbey

Day 7
Runswick Bay to Robin Hoods Bay
Kittiwakes
Gannets
Herring Gulls
Reed Bunting
Whitethroats
Willow warblers Chiffchaffs
Cormrants
Skylarks
Meadow Pipits
Seal

Saltburn's vernacular

Looking back towards Saltburn and its peir

Lifeboat at Skinningrove

Day 6
Saltburn to Runswick Bay
Left the Moors behind, now for the Coast!
Gannets
Sandwich Terns
Fulmars
Kittiwakes
Herring Gulls
Still plenty of Meadow Pipits

View of Roseberry Topping

Red Grouse chick catching up with its mum

Curlew on a post

Saltburn by the sea

Day 5
Captain cooks monument (Newton Under Roseberry) to Saltburn
Started by going up and over Roseberry Topping on a full English breakfast!!!
More Meadow Pipits
Curlew
Lapwings
Stonechat
Red Grouse chicks

Tadpoles on the top of the Moors

Captain cooks monument

Day 4
Clay Bank Top to Captain cooks monument
More Meadow Pipits Stonechats and my FFY Wheatear

Day 3
Osmotherley to Clay Bank Top. Roller Coaster of big ups and downs, Serenaded all the way by Meadow Pipits

A little bit misty

Not sure if this is the best view in England (today)

Crow on a finger post

Mouse carved into one of the church pews in Kilburn

Day 2
Kilburn to Osmotherley
Highlights
My FFY
Spotted Flycatchers
Curlews
Goldcrests
Red Grouse

Seat at the start of the Cleveland Way

Looking towards Helmsley Castle

Sutton Bank, looking towards the gliding club and the back of the White Horse

The White Horse from Kilburn

Good first day walking the Cleveland Way
Helmsley to Kilburn
Highlights
Cuckoo calling
Garden Warbler
Blackcaps
1 willow warbler
Whitethroats Chiffchaffs
Buzzards
Yellowhammers
Grey+Pied Wagtail
Swifts
Swallows