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Huge thanks to our fantastic team for all the help/time given up so far, which has really helped this project to get off the ground - exciting times ahead 🤩
Whilst we are hoping our released Corncrakes are now in their wintering areas, and we await next spring with bated breath, there is still a lot of work to be done in the #LDV (planning next year’s releases/carrying out site management/maintaining the vegetation in the pens) 🌿🐦
December 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Huge thanks to our fantastic team for all the help/time given up so far, which has really helped this project to get off the ground - exciting times ahead 🤩
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Whilst we are hoping our released Corncrakes are now in their wintering areas, and we await next spring with bated breath, there is still a lot of work to be done in the #LDV (planning next year’s releases/carrying out site management/maintaining the vegetation in the pens) 🌿🐦
December 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Whilst we are hoping our released Corncrakes are now in their wintering areas, and we await next spring with bated breath, there is still a lot of work to be done in the #LDV (planning next year’s releases/carrying out site management/maintaining the vegetation in the pens) 🌿🐦
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Many thanks to the club/members for all the efforts spent in helping to record the bird interest of the area throughout the year, and for the kind support to the Friends of the #LDV in helping to deliver additional benefits to the site 🐦
Nice to see members of @yorkbirding.bsky.social in the #LDV on Sunday for a club trip, with everyone enjoying the winter birding spectacle despite the gloom/drizzle!
December 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Many thanks to the club/members for all the efforts spent in helping to record the bird interest of the area throughout the year, and for the kind support to the Friends of the #LDV in helping to deliver additional benefits to the site 🐦
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Nice to see members of @yorkbirding.bsky.social in the #LDV on Sunday for a club trip, with everyone enjoying the winter birding spectacle despite the gloom/drizzle!
December 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Nice to see members of @yorkbirding.bsky.social in the #LDV on Sunday for a club trip, with everyone enjoying the winter birding spectacle despite the gloom/drizzle!
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We’ve also been up to #DuncombePark NNR recently to look at forthcoming management works and wider #NatureRecovery plans - as well as the incredible veteran trees and stunning fungi, the site was buzzing with small birds inc. good numbers of Treecreepers and Nuthatches 🐦
December 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
We’ve also been up to #DuncombePark NNR recently to look at forthcoming management works and wider #NatureRecovery plans - as well as the incredible veteran trees and stunning fungi, the site was buzzing with small birds inc. good numbers of Treecreepers and Nuthatches 🐦
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The mix of hedgerow species planted will add variety to these ancient narrow field boundaries for a range of wildlife - many thanks as always to our great team for their efforts 👏
Last week our hardworking volunteers were busy planting and gapping up hedges on the Friends of the #LDV's new fields at Thornton Ings - thanks to a very generous grant from the Tree Council 🌳
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The mix of hedgerow species planted will add variety to these ancient narrow field boundaries for a range of wildlife - many thanks as always to our great team for their efforts 👏
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Last week our hardworking volunteers were busy planting and gapping up hedges on the Friends of the #LDV's new fields at Thornton Ings - thanks to a very generous grant from the Tree Council 🌳
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Last week our hardworking volunteers were busy planting and gapping up hedges on the Friends of the #LDV's new fields at Thornton Ings - thanks to a very generous grant from the Tree Council 🌳
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Raptor fest at North Duffield Carrs last week with 10+ Buzzards, 8 Red Kites and 5 Marsh Harriers all seen hunting along the rising floodwater - no doubt taking advantage of the displaced small mammals on the move. Peregrine, Kestrel and Sparrowhawk also present @yorkbirding.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Raptor fest at North Duffield Carrs last week with 10+ Buzzards, 8 Red Kites and 5 Marsh Harriers all seen hunting along the rising floodwater - no doubt taking advantage of the displaced small mammals on the move. Peregrine, Kestrel and Sparrowhawk also present @yorkbirding.bsky.social
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Whilst Bank Island and Wheldrake Ings are extensively flooded, other viewing areas are available at Thorganby Village Hall, Ellerton and Aughton Churches, and from the hides at North Duffield Carrs @yorkbirding.bsky.social
A Slavonian Grebe distantly from the car park bridge at Wheldrake Ings #PWC2025 @patchbirding.bsky.social
The car park is flooded & waders needed to get through the water. No access to tower hide as the footpaths are flooded.
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The car park is flooded & waders needed to get through the water. No access to tower hide as the footpaths are flooded.
@ldvnnr.bsky.social @yorkbirding.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Whilst Bank Island and Wheldrake Ings are extensively flooded, other viewing areas are available at Thorganby Village Hall, Ellerton and Aughton Churches, and from the hides at North Duffield Carrs @yorkbirding.bsky.social
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This is only the 11th @btobirds.bsky.social ringed Shoveler to Italy, and out of the 211 Shoveler ducklings ringed on the reserve, 8 have been recovered in France and 4 have been recovered in Russia, whilst a single from Latvia has been recorded in the #LDV in Melbourne @yorkbirding.bsky.social
The ringing of Shoveler ducklings is somewhat of an #LDV speciality, so it was nice to receive a @btobirds.bsky.social recovery of one this week (ringed as a young male at Wheldrake Ings in July 2021 - recovered at Valle Morosina, Padova, Italy last week) 1,338 km SE of the reserve.
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This is only the 11th @btobirds.bsky.social ringed Shoveler to Italy, and out of the 211 Shoveler ducklings ringed on the reserve, 8 have been recovered in France and 4 have been recovered in Russia, whilst a single from Latvia has been recorded in the #LDV in Melbourne @yorkbirding.bsky.social
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A juvenile Reed Warbler ringed at Wheldrake Ings on the 6th August 2022 (possible already on passage), was recaught by ringers 177 km south of the #LDV at Little Downham, near Ely, Cambridgeshire, on the 25th August this year during autumn passage @yorkbirding.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A juvenile Reed Warbler ringed at Wheldrake Ings on the 6th August 2022 (possible already on passage), was recaught by ringers 177 km south of the #LDV at Little Downham, near Ely, Cambridgeshire, on the 25th August this year during autumn passage @yorkbirding.bsky.social
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Can visitors to the #LDV please be aware that deep flooding at Bank Island has now cut off access to the paths and hides, whilst access to Wheldrake Ings is getting more difficult (flooding to the car park and riverside path, & wellies required to reach Tower Hide) @yorkbirding.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Can visitors to the #LDV please be aware that deep flooding at Bank Island has now cut off access to the paths and hides, whilst access to Wheldrake Ings is getting more difficult (flooding to the car park and riverside path, & wellies required to reach Tower Hide) @yorkbirding.bsky.social
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Sightings in the #LDV today inc. a Rock/Water Pipit heard at Thorganby + 92 Dunlin still present there, with 60+ Whooper Swans viewable distantly towards Ellerton Ings @yorkbirding.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Sightings in the #LDV today inc. a Rock/Water Pipit heard at Thorganby + 92 Dunlin still present there, with 60+ Whooper Swans viewable distantly towards Ellerton Ings @yorkbirding.bsky.social
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Last week our hard working team of volunteers managed to fit in a visit to North Duffield to help manage an overgrown pond for the elderly owners – all part of our wider #NatureRecovery work in the surrounding area - many thanks to our fantastic team for their efforts 🐸
November 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Last week our hard working team of volunteers managed to fit in a visit to North Duffield to help manage an overgrown pond for the elderly owners – all part of our wider #NatureRecovery work in the surrounding area - many thanks to our fantastic team for their efforts 🐸
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This extra help really makes a massive difference to the site, so a huge thank you to all involved 🌳🪵🪓👏
Recently we enjoyed welcoming back staff from WSP to #SkipwithCommon NNR for a corporate volunteering task to clear birch from the open heath areas (to maintain view lines, glades and flight lines, from the footpaths and between the heaths).
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This extra help really makes a massive difference to the site, so a huge thank you to all involved 🌳🪵🪓👏
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Last week our team GPS-tagged several Woodcock in order to monitor their habitat requirements & movements around the reserve/surrounding area - after downloading the data it was surprising to see them not only feeding on the Ings after dark but also roosting there during the day 🪶
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Last week our team GPS-tagged several Woodcock in order to monitor their habitat requirements & movements around the reserve/surrounding area - after downloading the data it was surprising to see them not only feeding on the Ings after dark but also roosting there during the day 🪶
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A rather damp day but good to be back at #ForgeValleyWoods NNR this week to meet with the Raincliffe Woods Community Enterprise forester to identify urgent tree works (following the recent storms and wet weather which has resulted in significant tree falls in the area).
November 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
A rather damp day but good to be back at #ForgeValleyWoods NNR this week to meet with the Raincliffe Woods Community Enterprise forester to identify urgent tree works (following the recent storms and wet weather which has resulted in significant tree falls in the area).
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Despite the weather & challenging slopes our volunteers worked hard strimming the small pockets of calcareous grassland at the south-western end of the site (improving the area for species such as cowslips, primrose, quaking grass, wild thyme, salad burnet and rock rose) 🌿 Many thanks to all 👏
November 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Despite the weather & challenging slopes our volunteers worked hard strimming the small pockets of calcareous grassland at the south-western end of the site (improving the area for species such as cowslips, primrose, quaking grass, wild thyme, salad burnet and rock rose) 🌿 Many thanks to all 👏
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Good to see so much dead wood on the woodland floor at the moment (as well as standing), with a nice variety of fungi seen, several Nuthatch calling and a glimpse of an otter in the river.
November 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Good to see so much dead wood on the woodland floor at the moment (as well as standing), with a nice variety of fungi seen, several Nuthatch calling and a glimpse of an otter in the river.
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Interesting to see the Firecrest (first caught and ringed at our NNR Base at Bank Island on Monday) present again yesterday – maybe holding territory in the adjacent Water Treatment Works. Other sightings yesterday inc. two Great White Egrets on Bank Island @yorkbirding.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Interesting to see the Firecrest (first caught and ringed at our NNR Base at Bank Island on Monday) present again yesterday – maybe holding territory in the adjacent Water Treatment Works. Other sightings yesterday inc. two Great White Egrets on Bank Island @yorkbirding.bsky.social
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Huge thanks as always to everyone for their efforts - achieving what we manage to across the NNRs just wouldn't be possible without the help of our dedicated weekly volunteers and corporate groups - who work hard day in day out and whatever the weather! 🪚🪵🪓
Nice to welcome the @naturalengland.bsky.social Yorks/Lincs team to the #LDV yesterday and to have some additional help coppicing the last of the autumns willows ahead of more flooding - coppicing produces variation in structure/openness and helps in managing the height of our warbler ringing sites.
November 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Huge thanks as always to everyone for their efforts - achieving what we manage to across the NNRs just wouldn't be possible without the help of our dedicated weekly volunteers and corporate groups - who work hard day in day out and whatever the weather! 🪚🪵🪓
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Nice to see the Friends of the #LDV logo up there as a key partner and ‘going international'. During the day Curlew related discussions/presentations also took place. Great to see so much fantastic work/knowledge sharing/learning going on here - thanks to all.
Last week our wider Corncrake team attended the MOP9 (Ninth Meeting of the Parties) in Bonn, Germany, as part of the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds conference - talking about reintroductions, our Corncrake project and the work to be done on their flyways.
November 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Nice to see the Friends of the #LDV logo up there as a key partner and ‘going international'. During the day Curlew related discussions/presentations also took place. Great to see so much fantastic work/knowledge sharing/learning going on here - thanks to all.
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Last week our wider Corncrake team attended the MOP9 (Ninth Meeting of the Parties) in Bonn, Germany, as part of the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds conference - talking about reintroductions, our Corncrake project and the work to be done on their flyways.
November 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Last week our wider Corncrake team attended the MOP9 (Ninth Meeting of the Parties) in Bonn, Germany, as part of the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds conference - talking about reintroductions, our Corncrake project and the work to be done on their flyways.
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In between all of the jobs that our team have been doing on the NNRs recently, we’ve still found time to help with local conservation projects at Wressle churchyard and Naburn village hall, creating wildflower areas as part of #NatureRecovery
November 18, 2025 at 8:48 AM
In between all of the jobs that our team have been doing on the NNRs recently, we’ve still found time to help with local conservation projects at Wressle churchyard and Naburn village hall, creating wildflower areas as part of #NatureRecovery
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Nice surprise yesterday when this little gem of a bird turned up in one of our mist nets in the NNR Base Garden at Bank Island – only the second Firecrest to have been ringed on the reserve and the first record since 2021 @yorkbirding.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Nice surprise yesterday when this little gem of a bird turned up in one of our mist nets in the NNR Base Garden at Bank Island – only the second Firecrest to have been ringed on the reserve and the first record since 2021 @yorkbirding.bsky.social