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Birder, Butterflies and Wildflowers, Rubbish photographer, Instrumentation Control and Automation Engineer. Lives in God's own county, North Yorkshire. Local patch Dalby Forest
Eurasian Curlew
Local Curlew arrived back after winter. @northyorksbirds.bsky.social
02.03.2026 22:00 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It’s another world 😮😮😮
26.02.2026 18:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Upper Derwent Valley this afternoon. Well over 1200 Geese present with 600+ Pinks, 450+ White-Fronted and 7 Tundra Beans. Flood waters rapidly receding. @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social
26.02.2026 16:06 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Local Goshawks came out to play this morning in Dalby Forest. A gloomy start but eventually it brightened up enough to see them. Also a few Brambling in the forest. @nybirdnews.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social
25.02.2026 18:25 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Try #kowa and then you will have a better chance 😉
15.02.2026 12:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Exactly the Moors are a Desert and all we get is rubbish from people with a vested interest in shooting telling us how great the moors are. In reality that is not the case as it’s them who decides what lives and what dies.
15.02.2026 09:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
North Yorkshire Moors today, bitterly cold with quite a bit of snow on the tops.
Totals as follows :-
Hen Harrier -0
Merlin -0
Common Buzzard -0
Peregrine-0
Any other Raptor -0
Any other birds -0
What a great diverse place managed grouse moors are …. Not 🤬🤬🤬 @northyorksbirds.bsky.social
Our latest BTO ringing recoveries inc. a young Chiffchaff ringed at #SkipwithCommon NNR (presumably on passage) on 01/09/25, which was then controlled by ringers just 24 days later, 701 km away in Trunvel, Treogat, Finistère, France @yorkbirding.bsky.social
09.02.2026 11:30 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Slavonoan Grebe at Scaling Dam 13.00 @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social
09.02.2026 13:00 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The drake Smew again from the Thorganby village hall viewing platform
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White-Fronted, Pink Footed and Barnacle Geese
Upper Derwent Valley :- 139 White-Fronts, 3 Barnacle, 500+ Pink Feet, Good numbers of Wigeon and Teal plus a bonus Raven this morning in North Yorkshire.
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Grey Partridge
Another farmland bird in deep decline. Locally hanging on (just). #GreyPartridge
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150+ White-fronted Geese, 3 Barnacle, 400 Pink Feet, Shoveler and 100 plus Wigeon and Teal at Upper Derwent Valley in the gloom this afternoon. @northyorksbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social
07.02.2026 19:59 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Hare
Redwing
Kestrel
Upper Derwent Valley this afternoon :- 450 Pinks, 11 White-Fronts, 1 Barnacle, 120 Canadas, 90 Greylag, 1 Shoveler, 150 Lapwing, 2 Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 1 Merlin, 100+ Wigeon/Teal. Alot of Flood Water after this weeks deluge.
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Local Upper Derwent Valley Birding today. White-Fronted, Pink Feet, Barnacle, 1000 + Wigeon/Teal, 8 Shoveler, 6 Shelduck and lots of Commoner stuff @ldvnnr.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social
28.01.2026 21:43 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Great Egret
Shellduck
Shoveller
Teal
Lots of Flood Water in the Upper Derwent Valley this afternoon. Poor Light but at least a few Birds around.
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Great Egret
Shellduck
Shoveller
Teal
Upper Derwent Valley this afternoon. Lots of Flood water, horrible light, but a few birds at last. @northyorksbirds.bsky.social
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View from Dalby Forest across to the Wolds
View from Dalby Forest across to the Wolds. Still snowy and bitterly cold. Birding hard work here.
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Bullfinch
Bullfinch
Bullfinches in Dalby Forest this afternoon. Still 0 "Crossbills" @northyorksbirds.bsky.social
04.01.2026 18:53 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Wolf Moon
If you're a Werewolf, then tonight's the night. #wolfmoon #badmoonrising #northyorks
03.01.2026 18:39 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Filey Brigg this afternoon on the last day of 2025. Can you spot the Eastern Black Redstart? No, neither could I as it disappeared within seconds of me arriving @northyorksbirds.bsky.social
31.12.2025 19:42 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Exit Stage Left.
28.12.2025 20:50 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Bean and Pink Footed Geese
Bean and Pink Footed Geese
The 2 Tundra Bean Geese in amongst 750 Pink Feet take some finding on the Upper Derwent area. @northyorksbirds.bsky.social
Great find by @andymalley53.bsky.social
This morning on the Upper Derwent :-
57 Greylag, 350 Wigeon, 2 Kestrel, 750 Pinks, 1 Whitefront, 1 Common Buzzard, 2 CC Marsh Harriers, 12 Fieldfare, 250 Lapwing.
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For the other 6 hours there was literally no birds of any description 🤷♂️
26.12.2025 10:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A walk around the local patch #dalbyforest was particularly quiet. Only a pair of Goshawks brightened the day.
What was noteworthy was no Crossbills in any of the favoured areas. Other birders have noticed this to. They should be nesting in a few weeks. Where are they? @northyorksbirds.bsky.social
Christmas carol from he/she this morning in the garden. #dipper @northyorksbirds.bsky.social
21.12.2025 10:27 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
2 hours on the North York Moors this afternoon was pretty dire. 1 Red Kite a few Red Grouse and a couple of Corvids.
Welcome to the “Killing Fields” where only select things live determined by others. It’s sadly void of birds completely. @northyorksbirds.bsky.social
Goldeneye
Wigeon
Goldeneye and Wigeon at RCW @northyorksbirds.bsky.social
17.12.2025 20:26 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Dipper in the Garden this morning. Another grey day. @northyorksbirds.bsky.social
16.12.2025 10:33 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
