Showing posts with label Bakewell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bakewell. Show all posts
Sunday, 4 May 2025

Little Egret in Bakewell

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 I very rarely post about a single species, especially one that is now relatively common in Derbyshire, but last week's encounter with a...
Tuesday, 2 January 2024

Hassop Waxwings

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 After my walk around Linacre yesterday, Jayne and I drove cross to Hassop Station near Bakewell to see the 250+ Waxwings  (42) that had bee...
Sunday, 18 September 2022

BH Gull EY19562

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During a quick walk around Bakewell this afternoon, I spotted Black-headed Gull EY19562 back on the River Wye for its 4th winter. My first ...
Tuesday, 27 July 2021

Bakewell Gulls

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 I had my first trip to Bakewell today to see if there were any returning Black-headed Gulls. There were! In total, there were about 30/40 b...
Tuesday, 27 October 2020

Derbyshire Gulls - 26th October 2020

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 I had a little "Gull Tour" yesterday, visiting two of my favourite places in search of over-wintering Black-headed Gulls. Both si...
Sunday, 2 February 2020

2N78 again

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Last April I saw an adult Black-headed Gull in Bakewell with the darvic ring 2N78 (see here ). I didn't see it again last year, but yes...
Saturday, 19 October 2019

Look who's back!

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I was in Bakewell this afternoon, checking the gulls, when I spotted a familiar bird  - EY19562 (see here ). EY19562 This adult Black...
Thursday, 15 August 2019

Black-headed Gull EA32375 in Bakewell

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Yesterday, Luke and I went across to Bakewell to see if we could find any ringed Black-headed Gulls . There were only about 20 gulls there, ...
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Monday, 15 July 2019

Black-headed Gulls - Winter begins!!

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I went to Bakewell on Saturday to see if there were any Black-headed Gulls back from their breeding grounds. There were about 20 birds pres...
Wednesday, 24 April 2019

Black-headed Gull 2N78

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I wasn't expecting to find anymore ringed Black-headed Gulls this winter, so I was very surprised (and excited!) to find this beautiful...
Friday, 22 February 2019

Lithuanian Black-headed Gull in Bakewell

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Back in November 2017 I saw a Lithuanian-ringed  Black-headed Gull with a metal ring in Bakewell. At the time I only managed to get the fir...
Saturday, 26 January 2019

Black-headed Gull EY19562

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Back in November 2018 I saw a metal ringed Black-headed Gull on the River Wye, Bakewell. I managed to get its ring number (EY19562), and fo...
Sunday, 2 September 2018

Darvic'ed Black-headed Gull in Bakewell

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Following the Swedish ringed Black-headed Gull in Bakewell (see here ) I decided to go back again on Thursday (30th) to see if I could see ...
Wednesday, 29 August 2018

Swedish Black-headed Gull in Bakewell

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Back on 13th August I was in Bakewell when I spotted a Black-headed Gull with a metal ring. After a good half an hour I managed to get some...
Sunday, 8 January 2017

New Year Ringing, Waxwings and Year Ticks

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I know its not quite the new year now, but today was the first opportunity I had to get out ringing in 2017, hence the title of today's ...
Tuesday, 9 February 2016

Hybrid Duck in Bakewell

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At the end of 2015 Darley Dale Wildlife Blogger wrote a post about a hybrid duck that he'd seen on the River Wye at Bakewell (see post h...