Showing posts with label Year List 2016. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year List 2016. Show all posts
Saturday, 10 December 2016

Dusky Thrush!!!

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Last Sunday evening photos of a Dusky Thrush appeared on Twitter. The bird in question had been found in Beeley, a short half an hour drive...
Friday, 18 November 2016

Waxwing in Chesterfield

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For the last few weeks there has been an increasing numbers of Waxwings being reported on Birdguides . There were a couple of reports in De...
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Sunday, 9 October 2016

RSPB Titchwell

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Whenever Jayne and I are in Norfolk we like to visit the Titchwell RSPB Reserve . We spent 3 hours there this afternoon, and had some excell...
Saturday, 8 October 2016

Yellow-browed Warbler!!

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Unfortunately, this is not a Linacre report, but instead refers to 2 birds that I've seen today in Holkham Pines in Norfolk. This site i...
Friday, 2 September 2016

Frampton Marsh RSPB

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Yesterday I spent 5 hours at RSPB Frampton Marsh with my nephew, Luke. Luke saw 5 new species of birds, and I managed to get 8 new "ye...
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, 13 August 2016

Tennyson Down and The Needles

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On Wednesday, Jayne and I spent a good few hours walking around Tennyson Down and The Needles , on the far west of the Island. The weather w...
Saturday, 6 August 2016

Isle of Wight Birds- Part 1

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Jayne and I have been in the Isle of Wight for a week today, so I thought it was about time I wrote a post about birdlife here. The first ...
Monday, 1 August 2016

Year List update- 6 new species

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I haven't blogged about this year's "year list" for a few weeks, and, as you can see from the title of this post, I've...
Sunday, 10 July 2016

White-winged Black Tern

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News broke on Birdguides that an adult White-winged Black Tern (year tick) had been spotted at several sites in and around South Yorkshire ...
Tuesday, 28 June 2016

RSPB Old Moor- 26th June 2016

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It was quite warm and sunny on Sunday afternoon, so Jayne and I spent a few hours at RSPB Old Moor . We walked around the wildlife ponds and...
Sunday, 26 June 2016

Nightjars and Woodcock

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Every year, at the end of June, I lead a walk for the Chesterfield RSPB Group around Clumber Park , to see Woodcock and Nightjar . We were...
Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Clumber Park

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It was quite warm and sunny on Sunday, so Jayne and I had a drive out to Clumber Park . We walked around the main lake, and saw our first da...
Sunday, 15 May 2016

Year List Update

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I've managed to add a few new species to this year's Year List over the last few weeks, so I thought I'd better write a short p...
Monday, 2 May 2016

Scotland - Day 2

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Yesterday was our second day in Scotland. We started very early, meeting up at RSPB Loch Garten at 5.30am, hoping to see our first Capercai...
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...
Wednesday, 6 April 2016

Scarborough, Bempton and Bridlington

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I spent yesterday out and about in Yorkshire with Luke. We started the day off in Scarborough, before driving down to the RSPB Bempton Cliff...