Showing posts with label Barn Owl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barn Owl. Show all posts
Sunday, 15 February 2026

Scarborough - 14th February 2026

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 Yesterday, Jayne and I had a sunny day in Scarborough and RSPB Bempton Cliffs , adding 7 new birds to this year's Year List. We started...
Sunday, 4 January 2026

Year List 2026 - Here we go again!!!!

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I started the new Year List whilst in Northumberland on Thursday. By the end of the day, I had managed to spot 50 species, including my firs...
Tuesday, 21 January 2025

Year List Update

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 This morning, whilst driving to work, I was lucky enough to see a Barn Owl (115), that flew across the main road in Apperknowle. This afte...
Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Weekend Birding

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 This weekend, Jayne and I went up to RSPB Bempton Cliffs , Teesdale and RSPB Fairburn Ings . Over the two days, we managed to spot 10 new s...
Sunday, 14 January 2024

Year List Update - 14th January 2024

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This weekend, I managed to add another 4 species to my "Year List" for 2024, taking my total so far this year to 101. The first ne...
Thursday, 23 February 2023

Year List Update

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 This week, I've added a few new species to this year's Year List. The first new addition was Reed Bunting (93), which I recorded o...
Saturday, 25 January 2020

Linacre WeBS - 25th January 2020

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I carried out the first Linacre WeBS count of the year this morning. The weather was very still and grey, with a temperature of 7 degrees. ...
Monday, 7 January 2019

Linacre Ringing - 5th January 2019

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I was down at Linacre on Saturday morning for the first ringing session of 2019 with 5 members of Sorby Breck Ringing Group . As we set up t...
Sunday, 1 October 2017

Coal Aston Ringing- 30th September 2017

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I was out yesterday morning with 3 other members of Sorby Breck Ringing Group at our farm site in Coal Aston. We had 3 hours on site and ca...
Tuesday, 30 May 2017

Minsmere again!!

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RSPB Minsmere really is a wonderful place, so I popped down again yesterday morning at 5:30am, and spent 3 and a half hours walking around t...
Saturday, 20 May 2017

Nestbox update - 20th May 2017

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May is always a very busy month with lots of juvenile birds (pulli) in nestboxes that are ready to be ringed before they fledge. In the last...
Saturday, 28 May 2016

White-faced Darter

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Today Jayne and I spent two hours in the sunshine on the Natural England Chartley Moss reserve in Staffordshire, looking for a very rare dr...
Sunday, 28 February 2016

Ringing News- 27th February 2016

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I was out ringing yesterday morning with 4 members of the Sorby Breck Ringing Group . We were at the private garden site in Sheffield, an in...
Sunday, 17 January 2016

More Year Ticks

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After yesterday's visits to Linacre, I went for a walk around Rufford Country Park in the afternoon with Jayne. Whilst there I managed ...
Sunday, 2 August 2015

Year List tops 150

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After a week away in Norfolk I thought it was about time I updated the Year List, especially as I've managed to reach the 150 mark again...
Monday, 29 June 2015

Year List Update

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I was out at Clumber Park on Friday evening with the Chesterfield RSPB Group for the annual Nightjar Walk. We met at 7pm and had a short ...
Sunday, 12 April 2015

Blackcap and Chiffchaff

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Today's ringing session saw 5 members of Sorby Breck Ringing Group down at the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust's Avenue Washlands reserv...
Monday, 15 December 2014

WWT Welney

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I was out and about with the Chesterfield RSPB Group at the weekend, visiting the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust's Welney reserve. At th...
Friday, 8 August 2014

RSPB Frampton Marsh

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Yesterday I drove over to the RSPB Frampton Marsh reserve in Lincolnshire and spent a few sunny hours watching the birdlife, including coup...
Tuesday, 3 June 2014

Barn Owl chicks

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Earlier in the year I was talking to another member of the Sorby Breck Ringing Group at an event, when he told me about a nestbox on one of...