Local Patch news from Staunton Harold Res for the last few days. Saturday 6th April – The highlight was a second summer Yellow-legged Gull. This bird has been around for some months now, visiting the reservoir on and off. Monday 8th April – I was pleased to find a pair of Mandarin in the middle of […]
Where are all the spring migrtants? This is one of the latest Springs I have known. Usually I have seen numerous Sand Martin & Swallow by now and even the odd Willow Warbler. Nothing yet and it is still very cold with a really raw easterly wind blowing almost continuously. The temperature managed to get
Good Friday, 29th March and decided to re-visit the Barmston, Bridlington and Scarborough area of East Yorkshire. A great area for birding and at the same time I really wanted to catch-up on the 1st winter/1st summer Kumlien's Gull that has been frequenting Barmston Beach everyday since we last visited this area back in February. I was begining to
Winter hit our area with avengance this weekend (23-24th) and it is March, supposedly Spring. I have lived in this area of South Derbyshire all of my life and I have never seen weather like this since about 1963 and certainly not in March. It is more like Siberia at the moment and walking up to my local
A Lesser Scaup was found at Ogston Reservoir, Derbyshire (First County Record) yesterday morning (16th March). I got the news around 11am but unfortunately for me, I had other arrangements pre-planned and could not escape to see the bird. Never mind I thought, it's a duck, ducks usually stay for more than a day. No
Sunday 10th March birding at Rutland Water in a howling gale and snow storm! Spring has taken a backward step for the time being. Despite the snow and freezing wind chill, a few good birds were around but took some finding in the poor conditions. A winter plumaged Slavonian Grebe and a Black-necked Grebe were together
A bit of a mixed weekend birding wise. Saturday morning (2nd March) my usual early morning visit to SHRes. Not a great deal about, still three Goldeneye, also 64 Wigeon; 12 Pochard and 10 Teal were of note. A male Reed Bunting on the 1st March put me on 85 for the year. Still a few
On Saturday 23rd February 2013, a trip to the good old seaside towns of Scarborough & Bridlington on the North Yorkshire Coast. Both these sites can be good birding spots in the winter. Scarborough has a small winter colony of Mediterranean Gulls and at this time of year they are just begining to take on their
