The Lincolnshire Bird Club

A visit to North Yorks today produced an excellant day's birding and Insect watching,the following where seen:

Fen Bog YWTR.
1 Male Whinchat,plus breeding Curlew and Snipe.
Insect highlights here were,3 Small-pearl bordered Fritillary,1 male Large Heath(of the race Polydama),and an unbelievable non-insect sighting of a swimming female Adder,which had managed to rob a nestling Chaffinch from it's nest,and fell into the adjacent beck,i then went in and fished the snake out with a stick,and put it to rest on a rock,while we photographed it(Well done Mr Atkin for spotting this).


Troutsdale/Wykeham Forest
3 Honey Buzzard(including 2 displaying males,what an incredible sight,they looked like a giant Nightjar,with it's wings above it's head)
2 female Goshawk(1 being mobbed by a female Sparrowhawk)
6 Common Buzzard
26 Common Crossbill
The only insect highlight here was our first Yorkshire Beautiful Demoiselle

What a cracking day!!


Regards


Steve,with Chris Atkin and Dave Wright.

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Edmund and i spent 4 hours at the raptor viewpoint, several sightings of up to 4 buzzards, only 1 honey buzzard but seen very well and within 200m also 2 possible hobby,s but at long range,crossbills including male female and juv drinking in path side puddle only a few fet from us, a wood white butterfly was an unexpected sighting when walking back to the car. John.

Hi John,we don't actually go to the raptor veiwpoint itself,we were told to go to the other side of the valley,directly opposite the viewpoint and watch from there,you can see more of the forest from that side,there is a small footpath which we walk up to get that little bit extra elevation,for instance,when we where there last,we were getting excellant views of the displaying Male Honey's,and there was a group of people below us on the roadside and they could'nt see anything.The other problem with the viewpoint is that is a bit more overgrown now and you have restricted viewing,majortiy of the time the Honey Buzzards are either above or behind the raptor Viewpoint,which is how we were able to see them from the other side of the valley.So if you get chance to go again,try the other side of the valley,it is much better.If you need any directions on how to get there drop me a Pm.



Regards



Steve.

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