Things are Hotting Up!

East Yorkshire Wildlife October 9, 2010

I've been down to Spurn for a couple of trips this week and the two days could hardly have been more contrasting.

On Thursday it was a glorious sunny day with very few birds about-the highlight being the turtle dove on wires outside the warren. vey few other birds about by recent standards.

All change yesterday with a moderate easterly wind and overcast conditions.

Birds were appearing all day with loads of chiff chaffs and goldcrests with the odd yellow browed warbler amongst them.

there were also hundreds of finches passing through including good numbers of brambling.

As the day went on more scarce birds were being reported such as great grey shrike and hawfinch.

Hopefully this weekend will live up to expectation!

Black Redstart

Yellow-browed warbler

Goldcrest

Brambling

Stonechat

Turtle Dove

Pied Flycatcher

More shots from Spurn

East Yorkshire Wildlife October 2, 2010

I had another trip to Spurn today.
less productive and less time than Thursday.
I have posted some shots from today and some more from Thursday.

Cracking day at Spurn

East Yorkshire Wildlife September 30, 2010

Today at spurn was one of those days that will stay in the memory for a long time.

There was birds everywhere form start to finish.

I started around post 62 and straight away i saw whinchat,stonechat, meadow pipit and reed bunting. Furtherinto the bushes and it wa alive with robins plus some very confiding siskins and a few willow warblers and chiff chaffs. news of a great grey shrike had me heading up to the gate and albeit distant, the shrike showd very well with a small vole pinned to a branch in its 'larder'.

While I was there I called in at canal scrape and this yielded redstart, willow warbler, grey wagtail, wheatear, dunlin and some very confiding song thrush.

from there I went back to the point in search of a red-breasted flycatcher. it was flitting around the gun emplacement and after a walk round to get better views, it showd very well.

the walk produced even more thrushes including a couple of ring ouzel.

Also near the rbf there was pied and spotted flycatcher a garden warbler more siskins a brambling and a good passage of thrushes heading south. I had a distant view of another great grey shrike before heading back up towards the Crown.

On the way I saw a couple of short eared owls and a pair of little egret.

I looked in the crown car park and there weremarkedly less birds there, I saw a pair of blackcap and finished the day with a yellow browed warbler.