4 short eared owls, yes 4 at least! @ The Outstrays on the Humber. Plus Black tailed godwits, Avocets, reed bunting & skylarks singing new for the year list.
Pics of shorty at range, through fence and very windy 😕
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White-fronted and pink feet geese part of a flock of several hundred

Male Brambling perched in a beech tree

Brambling feeding on beech mast

Russian white-fronted & pinkfeet Yedingham, to make it a 7 Goose weekend to add to the bean, barnacle, egyptian grey & Canada.
Brambling year tick at Troutsdale in a flock with Chaffinch, marsh blue & great tit
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2 bean geese south of Crook bank @lincsbirding.bsky.social yesterday still, Thanks @owenbeaumont.bsky.social for the tip, also barnacles, Canada, Greylag and then egyptian with whoopers and Mute swans at Fiskerton fen @lincswildlife.bsky.social Goosander fishing on the Witham.
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3 cattle egret, kingfisher and tawny owl new for the year at a wet and breezy @tophilllow.bsky.social .
Redshank, fieldfares, little egret, marsh harrier buzzard add to the mass of waterfowl .
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Great grey shrike perched in a trimmed hedge

Grey partridge in winter crop field

The Fillingham @lincsbirding.bsky.social Great grey shrike was matched by the weather and kept distant.
The grey partridge pair by a busy roadside where a little closer and a nice year tick ✅️
Also Yellowhammer, whoopers goosander and red kites.
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Beaver 🦫?

An hour after work rewarded, time spent with the Best bird currently in East Yorkshire.
Male Hen Harrier huntingSaltmarsh... you won't persuade me otherwise. 🤩
Also barn owl for the year list.
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Saturday morning 🌄
Despite Sparrowhawk & buzzard disruption briefly, a healthy total 40 of 15 species.
7 Long-tailed tit most difficult to count 🍭 😆

Wet, windy &
on higher ground foggy around Wykeham & Scarborough.
6 species nfy.
Marsh tit, treecreeper, nuthatch, turnstone and in the harbour Red-throated and a great northern diver
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One of two bittern seen at @northcavewet.bsky.social by @mjthom.bsky.social
Also great spotted woodpecker amongst many others
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North Duffield carrs:
Scaup, dunlin, redshank, great egret, pintail, wigeon, stonechat marsh harrier and with patience and rain eased briefly the magnificent white tailed eagle appeared out of the gloom. Flew from River bank to distant tree ~12.. honest😶‍🌫️
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That is a nice marsh tit, not a blackcap.

Just what I said, as the One show is promoting it.
Could have helped protecting Hawks in the wild.

White-fronted goose standing on ice at Watton, next to much larger Greylag

3 white fronts with Greylag

Redpoll feeding in silver birch

Highlights from @tophilllow.bsky.social 3 russian white-fronted geese first picked up on size as they flew by with greylags, then they slid in on the ice at Watton.
Quick snap of redpoll before they flew off, whoopers near Wilfholme.
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A very icey @ldvnnr.bsky.social on Tuesday.
Didn't catch up with the white tailed eagle this visit.
Nice to see great egret & little at East Cottingwith.
Most other birds seen were flying along the river from Aughton, marsh harrier buzzard & wildfowl incl pintails wigeon & teal.
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Eastern black redstart from Scarborough, end of November

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Outstanding birds topped by the White-throated needletail.
Eastern black redstart

Eagle Back on the river bank.
Distant from Geoff Smith hide

White tailed Eagle short flight (west) from N Duffield carrs at 9:15.
Currently not viewable
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Tundra bean goose showing well it's orange legs & patch on bill

Tundra, 3 Russian White-fronted, 2 pinkfeet & barnacle geese

7 geese of 4 species, Tundra Bean, 3 Russian White-fronted Geese, 2 pinks & barnacle in a wet field Cloughton.
GGShrike a no show.
Bar tailed godwit, turnstone redshank & purple sandpiper Scalby Mills
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Short eared owl quartering the Outstrays with mature hedge behind

Fantastic birds around Welwick & Kilnsea E. Yorkshire
Topped off by this short eared owl late on.
2 hen harriers & marsh, merlin, kestrels, buzzard, pinkfeet, brent & greylag geese. 3 great & little egrets, bl t godwit, redshank, lapwings & golden plover
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#Firstbirdofmyday a female Bullfinch on the sunflower seeds, through my new optics in great early light.
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This is one of our favorites!

Whooper swan adults

2 adult & 4 juv. Whopper swans feeding in a crop field

Whooper swan family of six near Wroot. @lincsbirding.bsky.social @s-yorksbirding.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social 🪶
No sign of the black throated diver at Westwoodside. Redpoll, Goldcrest & chiffchaff best of the rest.

Buzzard perched in a waterlogged bush

One of a pair of marsh harrier

Peregrine pair distantly keeping watch over the wildfowl flocks

Dry land at a premium @ldvnnr.bsky.social North Duffield Carrs.
Pair of disrant peregrine taking time out from terrorising the flocks of lapwing & golden plover. Marsh harriers, buzzard stonechat.
Dunlin, heron, pintails, pochard, wigeon, teal, Fieldfares & Redwing. @nybirdnews.bsky.social
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In between the rain @tophilllow.bsky.social nice to see this Otter hunting at Watton. No smew to be found,
But great numbers of duck incl Goldeneye, pintail, wigeon, teal, pochard etc.
Lots of Redwing & fieldfares in the bushes plus marsh harrier.
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Stunning Eastern black redstart in Scarborough this morning.
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Calm sea off Skipsea

End of the Ulrome Road East Yorkshire

Skipsea to Ulrome this mild morning.
Black redstart f. opposite the church.
Black throated divers 4, great crested grebes 16 on the sea.
20 + bottle nose dolphins feeding close in then south followed by great black gulls.
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Ring necked & alexandrine parakeets in Beech woods S. Yorkshire.
Treecreeper, nuthatch, Jay, Goldcrest Long-tailed tit & fieldfares.
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