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Mike H.

@yorkshirebirder.bsky.social

Just birds, mainly in Yorkshire

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Song Sparrow at Thornwick Bay yesterday afternoon. ✅

11.06.2025 06:35 — 👍 39    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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7 males Black Grouse on Sunday in the Durham Dales.

03.06.2025 06:25 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Quail across the A1 at Bedale, absolute scenes. The Western Sandpiper showed well ✅✅

01.06.2025 18:37 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Grasshopper Warbler in the evening sun. Spurn on the walk back from the Melodious Warbler

20.05.2025 07:59 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Kentish Plover !!!!! At last, most dipped bird ✅ and UK 400th. Mad dash on news and got there to enjoy for only 10 mins. Holding right wing down but flew off strong. Kilnsea Wetlands.

11.05.2025 08:42 — 👍 23    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tree Pipit takes the Yorkshire Gliding Club list up to 53. Sutton Bank.

10.05.2025 13:49 — 👍 16    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Raven on moors above Halifax, but not Ring Ouzel alas.

17.04.2025 15:09 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Grebe fest at Swillington Ings today. Great Crested, Slavonian & Black-necked

15.04.2025 15:25 — 👍 33    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Brilliant, right place right time. Difficult bird to catch up with.

23.03.2025 19:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Blue-winged Teal pair at Brough but distant.

23.03.2025 14:36 — 👍 26    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Failed miserably with the Kentish Plover (again) but Burnham-on-sea is growing on me. #missedfreehotelbreakfasts

21.03.2025 08:54 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks Andy, plan to be there at first light for 2 days if needed.

16.03.2025 18:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks Dawn. Well done on the Serins 👍, still need them too. Next up and biggest bogey bird Kentish Plover, 3 chances for the Burnham-On-Sea bird this week after double figure dips. Will take me to 400 also

16.03.2025 17:00 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Glaucous Gull at Hunstanton a life ✅ for me. #Bogeybird

15.03.2025 11:25 — 👍 44    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Ring-necked Parakeet makes it on to the Manchester Airport perimeter list

09.03.2025 12:44 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Greater Scaup at Cromwell Bottom ski lake on Sunday

03.03.2025 18:17 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Willow Tit and Peregrine around the gliding club while the boy glides.

22.02.2025 12:55 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Short walk around Lindow Common in the drizzle.

15.02.2025 14:42 — 👍 22    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Least Sandpiper ✅ at the weekend but Kentish Plover still leading the dip list

10.02.2025 08:29 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Water Rail through the cold haze at Druridge Bay CP.

12.01.2025 17:02 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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White-billed Driver ✅ and Buff-bellied Pipit ✅ lifers and Iceland Gull, Ring-necked Duck, Water Rail, Scaup, Hen Harrier, Common Scoter, Red-breasted Merganser, Green-winged Teal, Long-tailed Duct (pristine males) and Short-eared owls in fading light. Top day out yesterday (11th) in Northumberland

12.01.2025 11:29 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Willow and Marsh Tit around Yorkshire Gliding Club whilst the boy empties my wallet, but happy with that

29.12.2024 17:12 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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American Yellow Warbler

Yellow Warbler on a long trip to Kent. Showed well for 15 mins.

27.12.2024 22:11 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Great Northern Diver. Distant at Calder Wetlands during lunch hour walk. #yorkshirebirding #ukbirding

16.12.2024 18:27 — 👍 25    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Purple Sandpiper in Bridlington Harbour

06.10.2024 09:38 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Grey Phalarope fishing in the detritus at Bridlington harbour.
#yorkshirebirding
#ukburdung

05.10.2024 20:39 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Siberian Stonechat on Saturday during a good day at Flamborough. Pale-legged Leaf Warbler showed well but didn’t enjoy the scrum. Red-flanked Bluetail, Icterine Warbler and multiple YBW and RB Fly.
#yorkshirebirding
#ukbirding

29.09.2024 09:00 — 👍 21    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Red-breasted Flycatcher, had 3 in the end at Spurn.
#favouritebird #yorkshirebirding @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social

20.09.2024 20:22 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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One of the Spurn Red-breasted Flycatchers. Worth the walk to the point #yorkshirebirding

20.09.2024 14:15 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stilt Sandpiper on Kilnsea Wetlands.

01.09.2024 08:59 — 👍 25    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1