A call into North Cave Wetlands on the way back home from Bempton, always a good place to be, with of course a great Butty Van to boot.
Started off walking down Dryham Lane and to East Holm hide for the reported Black Tern, I found out later, when I couldn’t find it, that it was only a fly through. On the walk down were, Orange tip Butterflies, Peacock Butterflies, and a couple of Dark edged Bee Flies. At East Holm, the Little Owl was in its favourite tree, loads of Black headed Gulls, Wigeon, Teal, Great Crested Grebe, Shelduck, down here also I got talking to a fellow You Tuber, Stuart Abbott of Derbyshire Bird Tours, who put me onto the Mediterranean Gulls and I put him on to his first Common Tern of the year.
From the hide, itself, I managed to find a couple of Little Ringed Plovers, as well as closer views of the Common Terns, dinner was now calling, so I made a stop at the Butty Van, well eventually, I made a stop off first, on a footpath, one I hadn’t been on before, on here I found a Sedge Warbler, Linnets, Common Whitethroat, Willow Warblers, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, and a heard Garden Warbler.
After dinner, I came back to the footpath and took some photos, rather a few, really, Sedge Warbler, Whitethroat, and Linnets, the Whitethroat and Sedge Warbler were a bit skulky, but I had a good time
Birds Seen : Avocet, Black headed Gull, Blackcap, Buzzard, Carrion Crow, Cetti’s Warbler, Chaffinch, Chiffchaff, Common Tern, Coot, Cormorant, Gadwall, Garden Warbler, Goldfinch, Great Crested Grebe, Great Tit, Great White Egret, Green Woodpecker, Grey Heron, Greylag Goose, Jackdaw, Lapwing, Lesser Black backed Gull, Little Egret, Little Grebe, Little Owl, Little Ringed Plover, Mallard, Mediterranean Gull, Moorhen, Mute Swan, Oystercatcher, Pied wagtail, Pochard, Red Kite, Reed Bunting, Reed Warbler, Ringed Plover, Rock Dove/Feral Pigeon, Sand Martin, Sedge Warbler, Teal, Tufted Duck, Whitethroat, Wigeon, Willow Warbler, Woodpigeon (47) 167/200
Linnet
Common Whitethroat
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