Jeff Lunn
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Two years on from the Yorkshire Marine Nature Partnership priority setting workshop, delegates from 21 of the partnership's organisations, including NEYEDC, have come together today to review work to date & feed into future plans for marine recovery 🐚
yorkshiremarinenaturepartnership.org.uk
yorkshiremarinenaturepartnership.org.uk
January 13, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Two years on from the Yorkshire Marine Nature Partnership priority setting workshop, delegates from 21 of the partnership's organisations, including NEYEDC, have come together today to review work to date & feed into future plans for marine recovery 🐚
yorkshiremarinenaturepartnership.org.uk
yorkshiremarinenaturepartnership.org.uk
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We have a new piece published today on our website, the next instalment of our 'Spotlight on...' local groups series. This time, we're sharing the work of Sheriff Hutton Hedgehog Group, and how we're supporting them: www.neyedc.org.uk/updates-insi... 🦔
Supporting Local Recording Communities: Spotlight on…Sheriff Hutton Hedgehog Group — neyedc
Our next local recording community spotlight is on Sheriff Hutton Hedgehog Group, a group formed as an offshoot of Sheriff Hutton Nature Group, located approximately 10 miles north north-east of York.
www.neyedc.org.uk
January 16, 2026 at 1:21 PM
We have a new piece published today on our website, the next instalment of our 'Spotlight on...' local groups series. This time, we're sharing the work of Sheriff Hutton Hedgehog Group, and how we're supporting them: www.neyedc.org.uk/updates-insi... 🦔
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Hear from Dr Ellie Leech, Head of our Ringing & Nest Recording Team, as she talks about positive breeding success for 14 species, and the value of data gathered by BTO bird ringers. #Ornithology
UK’s warmest spring on record led to rise in songbirds breeding, data shows
UK’s warmest spring on record led to rise in songbirds breeding, data shows
Dry and warm 2025 spring gave glimmer of hope for threatened wild birds but many remain in long-term decline
The warmest and sunniest spring on record this year led to an increase in the breeding of some of Britain’s best-loved songbirds, data has shown.
Scientists said the dry and warm spring had provided a glimmer of hope for threatened wild birds. In the 2025 breeding season, from May to August, there were higher than average breeding successes for 14 species including the chiffchaff, garden warbler, whitethroat, coal tit, blue tit, great tit and robin. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Hear from Dr Ellie Leech, Head of our Ringing & Nest Recording Team, as she talks about positive breeding success for 14 species, and the value of data gathered by BTO bird ringers. #Ornithology
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It's useful to see and understand how the Woodcock are using the wider area beyond the designated and protected sites - always more to discover/learn 🐦 Huge thanks to our team for all the hours spent after dark building up this valuable data set 🔦
We’ve just downloaded some more data from our recently GPS-tagged Woodcock, with this mapped individual spending time feeding in just a couple of fields near #SkipwithCommon during the night and roosting up on the NNR during the day @yorkbirding.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
It's useful to see and understand how the Woodcock are using the wider area beyond the designated and protected sites - always more to discover/learn 🐦 Huge thanks to our team for all the hours spent after dark building up this valuable data set 🔦
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This book is available at the price of £25 with all funds going to the Friends of the #LDV and towards supporting conservation/research projects across the reserve 🐦🦆🪶 If you'd like to pre-order yourself a copy please contact Lucy.Murgatroyd@naturalengland.org.uk, thank you @yorkbirding.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This book is available at the price of £25 with all funds going to the Friends of the #LDV and towards supporting conservation/research projects across the reserve 🐦🦆🪶 If you'd like to pre-order yourself a copy please contact Lucy.Murgatroyd@naturalengland.org.uk, thank you @yorkbirding.bsky.social
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Wildfowl featured on the seawatch with Long-tailed Skua , 4 Little Auk and Black-throated Diver. Dusky Warbler still, 3 Firecrest, Long-eared Owl, Black Redstart and 5 Snow Bunting.
Full details here
flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/15...
Full details here
flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/15...
15th November 2025 - Flamborough Bird Observatory
Overcast with persistent but light rain until early afternoon, a blustery easterly wind and top temperature of nine degrees C. Wildfowl moving past the Seawatch Observatory included 123 dark-bellied B...
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November 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Wildfowl featured on the seawatch with Long-tailed Skua , 4 Little Auk and Black-throated Diver. Dusky Warbler still, 3 Firecrest, Long-eared Owl, Black Redstart and 5 Snow Bunting.
Full details here
flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/15...
Full details here
flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/15...
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Seawatching was the order of the day with Leach’s Storm Petrel the highlight, 3 Sooty Shearwater, Blue Fulmar, 4 Great Northern Diver, Long-tailed Duck and Little Auk. Also Merlin, 7 Snow Bunting and Black Redstart.
Full details here
flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/14...
Full details here
flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/14...
14th November 2025 - Flamborough Bird Observatory
Strong east-north-east winds and rain throughout, with a maximum of nine degrees C. Seawatching provided the highlights, headlined by a close Leach’s Petrel that slowly flew north just beyond the surf...
flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Seawatching was the order of the day with Leach’s Storm Petrel the highlight, 3 Sooty Shearwater, Blue Fulmar, 4 Great Northern Diver, Long-tailed Duck and Little Auk. Also Merlin, 7 Snow Bunting and Black Redstart.
Full details here
flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/14...
Full details here
flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/14...
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Always fascinating to see new @btobirds.bsky.social Ringing & Nest Recording report.
Willow Tits at new low, no nestlings ringed at all, just 6 nests monitored. Ringed Marsh Tit halved from 2010. No Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers ringed in UK for 2nd yr running.
www.bto.org/get-involved... #ornithology
Willow Tits at new low, no nestlings ringed at all, just 6 nests monitored. Ringed Marsh Tit halved from 2010. No Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers ringed in UK for 2nd yr running.
www.bto.org/get-involved... #ornithology
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October 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Always fascinating to see new @btobirds.bsky.social Ringing & Nest Recording report.
Willow Tits at new low, no nestlings ringed at all, just 6 nests monitored. Ringed Marsh Tit halved from 2010. No Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers ringed in UK for 2nd yr running.
www.bto.org/get-involved... #ornithology
Willow Tits at new low, no nestlings ringed at all, just 6 nests monitored. Ringed Marsh Tit halved from 2010. No Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers ringed in UK for 2nd yr running.
www.bto.org/get-involved... #ornithology
Royd Moor viewpoint vismig 10-11. Pinkfeet 460 in 3 skeins NE; all SW: MPipit 55, Skylark 6, Fieldfare 8, Redwing 8, Chaffinch14, Siskin20, Linnet 2, Starling 6
October 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Royd Moor viewpoint vismig 10-11. Pinkfeet 460 in 3 skeins NE; all SW: MPipit 55, Skylark 6, Fieldfare 8, Redwing 8, Chaffinch14, Siskin20, Linnet 2, Starling 6
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First session done!!
Highlights being adult Pomarine Skua, Black Tern, 2 Little Tern, several Sooty Shearwater and lots of Little Gull.
See you back at the observatory at 4pm!
Highlights being adult Pomarine Skua, Black Tern, 2 Little Tern, several Sooty Shearwater and lots of Little Gull.
See you back at the observatory at 4pm!
Seawatch Festival is go!!!!
With the Garner-Richards observatory already busy with Sooty Shearwaters, Manx Shearwaters, Arctic Skuas and more passing!
We are here Saturday, Sunday and Monday 7am-11am and 4pm-7pm for this free event, no booking required
With the Garner-Richards observatory already busy with Sooty Shearwaters, Manx Shearwaters, Arctic Skuas and more passing!
We are here Saturday, Sunday and Monday 7am-11am and 4pm-7pm for this free event, no booking required
August 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
First session done!!
Highlights being adult Pomarine Skua, Black Tern, 2 Little Tern, several Sooty Shearwater and lots of Little Gull.
See you back at the observatory at 4pm!
Highlights being adult Pomarine Skua, Black Tern, 2 Little Tern, several Sooty Shearwater and lots of Little Gull.
See you back at the observatory at 4pm!
@Barnsleybsg Quail calling from grassy field in between Scout Dike and Royd Moor 11.00-11.15 (follow gully up from Scout Dike south bank)
July 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
@Barnsleybsg Quail calling from grassy field in between Scout Dike and Royd Moor 11.00-11.15 (follow gully up from Scout Dike south bank)
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Great year for Curlew in the #LDV with another brood found newly hatched this morning and left in peace. This was the 34th brood seen on the reserve this year – fingers crossed now for good fledging success 🐣
June 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Great year for Curlew in the #LDV with another brood found newly hatched this morning and left in peace. This was the 34th brood seen on the reserve this year – fingers crossed now for good fledging success 🐣
Whimbrel and Grasshopper Warbler at Broadstones Res this a.m. Also 2 Tree Sparrows, Garden W and Stonechat on the heath and Raven over.
May 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Whimbrel and Grasshopper Warbler at Broadstones Res this a.m. Also 2 Tree Sparrows, Garden W and Stonechat on the heath and Raven over.
Scout Dyke (S Yorks) circular today. Wheatear 1, Garden W 5s, Willow W 13s, Whitethroat 5s, Tree Sparrow 5, Yellowhammer 3s, GCG 8 + 1 sitting
April 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Scout Dyke (S Yorks) circular today. Wheatear 1, Garden W 5s, Willow W 13s, Whitethroat 5s, Tree Sparrow 5, Yellowhammer 3s, GCG 8 + 1 sitting
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My first Swallow of the year flew past me at eye level at Wilthorpe marsh this morning. Always nice to see them back. 😀. Also, Little Owl, Green Woodpecker, 8 Buzzards, Kingfisher, 2 Cetti’s Warblers and 10+ Chiffchaff. @barnsleybsg.bsky.social @lunnjeff.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
My first Swallow of the year flew past me at eye level at Wilthorpe marsh this morning. Always nice to see them back. 😀. Also, Little Owl, Green Woodpecker, 8 Buzzards, Kingfisher, 2 Cetti’s Warblers and 10+ Chiffchaff. @barnsleybsg.bsky.social @lunnjeff.bsky.social
6 March Broomhill 3 Goldeneye, The Fleet 1 Water Pipit, Wombwell Ings 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Green Sand, 2 Shelduck, 2 Oystercatcher. Lapwings, Redshank & Skylarks starting to display.
March 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
6 March Broomhill 3 Goldeneye, The Fleet 1 Water Pipit, Wombwell Ings 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Green Sand, 2 Shelduck, 2 Oystercatcher. Lapwings, Redshank & Skylarks starting to display.
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A summary of this important new paper is available as WaderTales blog #144:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h...
#ornithology
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h...
#ornithology
January 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
A summary of this important new paper is available as WaderTales blog #144:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h...
#ornithology
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h...
#ornithology
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East of the Dykes an adult Iceland Gull, 3 Goldeneye, Grey Plover, Woodcock and 26 Snow Bunting while 30+ were seen at RSPB Bempton with Merlin and Corn Bunting and Jack Snipe at Buckton
#Yorkshirebirding
flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/4t...
#Yorkshirebirding
flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/4t...
4th January 2025 - Flamborough Bird Observatory
Overcast, with a light south-westerly wind and a high of just three degrees C. An adult Iceland Gull that flew west along the South Cliffs represented the headland’s first white-winged gull since New ...
flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk
January 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
East of the Dykes an adult Iceland Gull, 3 Goldeneye, Grey Plover, Woodcock and 26 Snow Bunting while 30+ were seen at RSPB Bempton with Merlin and Corn Bunting and Jack Snipe at Buckton
#Yorkshirebirding
flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/4t...
#Yorkshirebirding
flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/4t...
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A quieter day with Red-necked Grebe and Yellow-legged Gull on the seawatch, Great Northern Diver on the sea and Black Redstart on the south cliffs.
flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/11...
flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/11...
11th December 2024 - Flamborough Bird Observatory
Thick cloud persisted all day in a light northerly, maximum tempertaure 7°C. A quieter seawatch still managed to deliver a Red-necked Grebe, a Yellow-legged Gull and 54 Red-throated Divers. A Great No...
flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk
December 11, 2024 at 9:18 PM
A quieter day with Red-necked Grebe and Yellow-legged Gull on the seawatch, Great Northern Diver on the sea and Black Redstart on the south cliffs.
flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/11...
flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/11...