Showing posts with label Linnet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Linnet. 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, 31 August 2025

Gannets!!

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 I don't often go out "birding" nowadays, without there being the potential for a "tick", but today was a little dif...
Wednesday, 14 August 2024

Linacre Birds and Ringing - 2 new species!

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 Last week, 9th and 11th, I had my first walk and ringing session at Linacre since returning from holiday (more of that in future posts).  O...
Tuesday, 27 July 2021

RSPB South Stack - 26th July 20221

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 After yesterday's visit to Cemlyn Lagoon, I drove across to RSPB South Stack. The target species was Chough , and I was not disappointe...
Wednesday, 30 May 2018

North Wales Weekend

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The title of this post isn't quite correct, as I didn't spend the weekend in Wales, but I did have a couple of days over the Bank Ho...
Friday, 14 April 2017

Big Moor Year ticks

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Jayne and I had a couple of hours on Big Moor this afternoon. It was pretty blustery, but we walked from the road up to the old reservoir an...
Saturday, 13 August 2016

Bembridge and St Helen's Duver

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The first time we visited the Isle of Wight we stayed in Bembridge, and enjoyed many walks along the harbour and St Helen's Duver . Duri...
Friday, 10 June 2016

Derbyshire Red Kite

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Last night, following a text from my nephew, Luke, I spent a very enjoyable couple of hours watching a Red Kite at a site in North Derbyshi...
Sunday, 24 January 2016

6 Year Ticks

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I was out and about again this morning, trying hard to "tick" a Black Redstart that has been present on an industrial site in She...
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...
Sunday, 15 September 2013

Linacre - 15th September 2013

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The weather forecast for today was wet and windy, but when I woke the sky was clear and there was just a light wind, so I decided to pop to ...
Tuesday, 3 September 2013

Sightings of the Year!!!

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Today was the last day of the summer holidays, the sun was shining and yesterday's strong winds had dropped, so I decided to pop down to...
Monday, 3 June 2013

Westleton Heath and Easton Bavents

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Following on from the two posts at the weekend I thought I'd better update the blog with  some more pictures and info from my recent Suf...
Wednesday, 15 August 2012

RSPB Old Moor- 13th August 2012

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I had a trip over to RSPB Old Moor on Monday with my nephew and niece. We managed to see a good range of birds and insects and I added 2 ne...
Monday, 13 August 2012

Super Saturday!

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If the Olympics can have a Super Saturday so can I! Saturday's ringing session in Sheffield was great with 65 bird ringed (16 by me), a ...
Saturday, 5 May 2012

3 more nests and a snow shower!

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Rain stopped play on Wednesday whilst checking the nestboxes at Linacre, so when I went down this morning I checked he remaining boxes and f...
Sunday, 29 April 2012

Farm Survey Walk - 28th April 2012

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Yesterday saw me out and about for  the first survey of the year as part of the RSPB's Volunteer and Farmer Alliance  scheme. Each year ...