Pete Williams

Take a look at the Patchwork Challenge 2025 review which is now live on the blog! Thanks to everyone who took part and hopefully we will get more participants for #PWC2026! Good luck #UKBirding

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Top album. Say yes, Angeles and Between the Bars all top tracks regularly on my playlists.

Given few opportunities lately to get up to the Whitby coast it was great today to get a couple of hours there. Yellow-Browed Warbler at Kettleness the highlight plus plenty of Redwings, Blackbirds and Goldcrests. Plus 2 Blackcap and 2 Chiffs still around.

Chough

Trevose Head in Cornwall

Rush Veneer moth.

A walk around Trevose Head in Cornwall yesterday with stunning views all the way around. 2 each of Clouded Yellows, Painted Lady, Red Admiral and Small Tortoishell plus lots of whites and a Rush Veneer Moth. 5 Wheatear along the cliffs and 2 confiding Chough by the lighthouse. Beautiful spot.

In Padstow for the week and just arrived tonight. Didn’t bring moth trap but this one landed on me in the house. Madder Pearl (Mecyna Asinalis) I believe, a new moth for me. #teammoth

Cracking shot and find Paul.

Great to see Redstarts back at the Hole of Horcum with 8 yesterday. Same number of Wheatear plus 2 Raven, Green Woodpecker and 20+ Willow Warbler. Also 6 Curlew on the moor and 30 Fieldfare still a sign of winter. @northyorksbirds.bsky.social @northyorkmoors.org.uk #ukbirds #northyorkshirebirds.

Always nice to get Garganey in the spring with this pair at Filey Dams yesterday. Very early Hobby high over Wykeham Lakes and Merlin very low through Potter Brompton. Also good to see Wheatear finally back on Levisham Moor this evening. @northyorksbirds.bsky.social #yorkshirebirding

This Black Redstart graced the churchyard outside my kitchen window this evening in Lockton. @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorkmoors.org.uk @patchbirding.bsky.social

Tundra Bean Geese, Grey Partridge, singing Curlew and Chiffs, Great White Egret, Corn Bunting, Little egret, Brambling and Shelduck the highlights in the local area today. Plus brief Hawfinch yesterday at Thornton-Le-Dale. @nybirdnews.bsky.social

Local walk this morning, highlight was 9 Russian White-Fronted Geese at Low Marishes with 2 Pinkfeet, 75 Greylag and a few Canada. Plenty of Buzzards around including a strikingly pale individual. Crossbills singing in Dalby Forest on the way back. @nybirdnews.bsky.social

Lovely walk around Holy Island this afternoon. Long-Tailed Duck, Goldeneye, Common Scoter, RB Merganser and Little Egret plus good numbers of Grey Plover, Sandwrling and Barwit in the bays plus one Knot. @ntbirdclub.bsky.social #ukbirds

Long staying Red-Necked Grebe still at Wykeham Lakes today. Plenty of Crossbills in the woodlands and Dipper in Dalby. Male Pintail was an unusual visitor to Staindale Lake, Dalby. #northyorksbirds #ukbirding @nybirdnews.bsky.social

You can tell what it is. The only thing that counts!

Great effort, well done hitting the 100!

Snowy walk this morning in Lockton, up to 70 birds at the garden feeder this morning with 20+ Chaffinch. Common Buzzard, GS Woodpecker and Snipe on David’s Lane.

Superb birding yesterday at Tophill Low for the Michael Clegg bird race. 92 species total for the day. C and GW Egrets, SEO, Jack Snipe, Bearded Tit the highlights. So much invested in locating Feral Pigeon at the end! 😂 Thanks to @ornid.bsky.social, @paulnewton61.bsky.social @leelj337.bsky.social

Will gauge that as the day goes on. Forecast ok for now, but if changes will keep an eye on it.

Yep hopefully slightly fewer steps, more shelter and more birds. Good to be heading/sliding down your way this year to kickstart the birding year!

No sign of the Arctic Warbler at Saltwick, Whitby this afternoon but this low flying Great White Egret following the coast south was some compensation. #ukbirding #yorkshirebirding

A morning at Kettleness started with Ring Ouzel amongst decent numbers of Blackbird, Song Thrush and Redwing. Then whilst scoping a small group of Terns from the cliff top, a Red-Rumped Swallow flew past in the scope foreground! Birding always needs a nice dose of luck! #yorkshirebirding #ukbirding

Plenty of pictures of Yellow-Browed Warblers out there but here are a couple more. Cracking day at Kettleness at the weekend with at least 8 plus a Pied Flycatcher in a small area of sycamores. @patchbirding.bsky.social #ukbirding

A misty morning at Kettleness with easterlies always feels rare. 3 Yellow-Browed Warblers the best of it, 25+ Chiffchaffs with all kinds of calls and a Willow Warbler best of the rest. 8 Pinkfeet flew out to sea and plenty of Goldcrests. Definitely more to find out there. #ukbirding

This Neglected Rustic was a garden first for me, given where I live in Lockton (VC62) not a complete surprise.

@mothiduk.bsky.social is this Neglected Rustic?

Future trip!

I’m expecting a boot full of board games when you arrive at mine on the 5th. Eternal optimist - conditions will come good!

Home of my first American Golden Plover back in the mid-nineties! Great find!

Might be borrowing that before we go!

Morning at Kettleness stopping at Fen Bog on route. Gropper and 2 Lesser Whitethroat at the former and Redstart, 2 Wheatear and 4 Lesser Redpoll at the latter. Plenty of Willow Warbler, Blackcap and Chiffs all singing away and Swallows moving through. #ukbirding