Showing posts with label Meadow Pipit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Meadow Pipit. Show all posts
Sunday, 15 March 2026

Linacre Update - 15th March 2026

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The weather yesterday was lovely, with bright, sunny skies and little wind, so I went down to Linacre for a couple of hours, walking around ...
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...
Friday, 2 January 2026

A Tale of Three Pipits - Rock, Meadow and Water.

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 I have to be honest, and say that, even as a "birder", I don't often look that closely at pipits. They are, after all, the ve...
Monday, 14 April 2025

Ring Ouzels

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This morning, Jayne and I went out into the Peaks to have a look for Ring Ouzel (148). After a bit of a false start, due to heavy mist, we ...
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...
Saturday, 22 September 2018

Linacre Ringing - 22nd September 2018

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This morning I was down at Linacre with 4 other members of Sorby Breck Ringing Group . We had 4 hours on site and caught 38 birds (new/retra...
Sunday, 24 September 2017

Linacre Ringing - 23rd September 2017

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I was out ringing at Linacre yesterday with Sorby Breck Ringing Group . This was our first session since the start of August, and we were on...
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...
Thursday, 9 March 2017

Great Grey Shrike

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I spent a couple of hours at Greave's Piece, near Owler Bar on Sunday morning looking for a Great Grey Shrike . Unfortunately, I didn...
Tuesday, 23 August 2016

Big Moor Year Tick

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Last Thursday I spent a few hours up on Big Moor. Whilst there I added Whinchat to the "year list", with one adult and at least 3...
Saturday, 30 April 2016

Cairn Gorm

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Jayne and I are up in Scotland for a few days, and, as the title suggests, we visited Cairn Gorm today. We went in search of Ptarmigan , bu...
Thursday, 18 February 2016

Short-eared Owl

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I was driving past Leash Fen at about 4pm this afternoon when I noticed a few cars parked up on Fox Lane. At this time of the year, it can ...
Sunday, 19 April 2015

RSPB Bempton, Scarborough and Flamborough

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I spent this weekend in Scarborough celebrating my up-coming birthday (thanks Jayne!!). We started off at RSPB Bempton Cliffs , then moved o...
Friday, 10 April 2015

Ring Ouzels and Wheatear

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Living just 20 minutes from the Peak District National Park you'd think that "year ticking" Ring Ouzel and Wheatear would be...
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Saturday, 13 September 2014

More Mipits and a (near) record Goose Count

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After last week's success ringing my first Meadow Pipit of 2014  I was very pleased to hear that we were heading back up to a moorland...
Sunday, 7 September 2014

Linacre WeBS and Ringing

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This weekend saw two visits to Linacre Reservoirs. The first visit, on Saturday morning, to carry out the September WeBS walk, followed by ...
Monday, 17 February 2014

Avenue Ringing - 16th February 2014

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Yesterday morning the weather was dry and still, so I managed to get out ringing with the Sorby Breck Group. We went back down to the Derby...
Saturday, 19 October 2013

Winter visitors arrive and patch tick

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No ringing today because of the wet and windy weather early on, so instead I went off to Linacre for 3 hours walking around all 3 reservoirs...
Monday, 7 October 2013

Pied Wagtails and Peregrine Falcon

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Pied Wagtails are not a common bird at Linacre, and apart from one breeding record back in 2011 when the reservoirs were partially drained,...