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Early start today, target birds being Common Sandpiper, Pied Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher, Ring Ouzel and Redstart.

7:30am arrival at Langsett Barns Car Park (///bluff.track.neckline) to Blackbird, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, moving on to the dam, after getting the gear together, a single Oystercatcher was soon picked out amongst the Mallards, two Common Sandpipers flew in and landed on the dam wall, I eventually managed to grap some photos of them in passing, shortly after a third joined them.

Down in the wood Chiffchaff, Chaffinch, Curlew was heard, Nuthatch, Great Spotted Woodpecker were seen, Wrens’ were heard throughout the wood and then I picked up a Pied Flycatcher calling, but couldn’t pick it up, but further into the wood, I found another, but it was a wait of twenty minutes before it finally showed itself. After the Pied Flycatcher, I was put onto a location of Spotted Flycatcher, but I spent sometime with the Pied first, then I went to find Spotted Flycatcher. Once I was in the location, I had to use the Merlin app, due to the high pitch calling, it was here, now I had to find it, took a while but find it I did, high in the trees, I was really glad I found this one.

Back to the car and round to the other side of the reservoir where there were Swallows, Pied Wagtails, Sparrowhawk, Lapwing and Red Grouse.

I then went on to a place called Cut throat bridge for part two of the day, Willow Warblers were calling in the car park area, I made my way across to the other side of the road to the location. Took a while to find the next bird, Ring Ouzel, a single male bird and then eventually a couple of Whinchat, a single Snipe, Meadow Pipits, Red Grouse, nice end to the day.

Birds seen Langsett Area : Blackbird, Blackcap, Blue Tit, Buzzard, Canada Goose, Carrion Crow, Chaffinch, Chiffchaff, Collard Dove, Common Sandpiper, Curlew, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Great Tit, Kestrel, Lapwing, Long tailed Tit, Mallard, Mistle Thrush, Nuthatch, Oystercatcher, Pheasant, Pied Flycatcher, Pied Wagtail, Red Grouse, Robin, Song Thrush, Sparrowhawk, Spotted Flycatcher, Swallow, Willow Warbler, Woodpigeon, Wren (32)

Birds Seen Cut Throat Bridge : Lapwing, Linnet, Meadow Pipit, Red Grouse, Ring Ouzel, Snipe, Whinchat (7) 174/200

Common Sandpiper

Meadow Pipit

Spotted Woodpecker

Pied Flycatcher

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

Early start today due to the draw of Flycatchers in the area. I arrived in the Langsett barns Car park at about 8:20am, to a nearly empty car park, good timing on my part, got the gear together and off I went.

On route to the Flycatcher area I passed a singing Chiffchaff and a Goldfinch, I didn’t find anything on the reservoir or the dam wall. Eventually I got to the wood, starting here with the sound of Nuthatch, Blue Tits and Great Tits. I made my way slowly thru the wood, stopping occasionally, to look and listen, but no Flycatchers. A small group of people had started to follow me, presumably with the same goal in mind, one lady finally found our quarry, a single female Pied Flycatcher, going into a nest box, a distant one, well away from the path.

We watched for a while, people eventually started to drift away, leaving me to myself, so I settled in and continued to watch. I watched the female Pied Flycatcher come and go, with nest material, with the Male Pied Flycatcher popping in occasionally, due to the distance I couldn’t get any decent photos, the Nikon P950 is good for reach, but the AF is awful. Other bird highlights were Nuthatch and a Great spotted Woodpecker.

After dinner I went around to the other side of the reservoir, after parking up and getting out of the car I heard Raven, suddenly they were overhead, three birds in total, they stayed around for about fifteen minutes, flying around and calling, a great sight to watch, there were also in the area, Swallows, Red Grouse, Skylarks and Willow Warbler.

On then to Wombwell Ings, a friends birthday, we ended up at Adwick Washlands seeing, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Dunnock and Robin on our way into the reserve. At the first pool were plenty of Avocets, a few nice looking Black tailed Godwits, Redshank, a few Black headed Gulls, Teal, Gadwall, Lapwing, Moorhen and Coot.

On then to the lookout area, after watching a showy Cetti’s Warbler, to hopefully find our target birds Yellow Wagtails and Wheatear, we saw neither, we moved on further down the lane to another pool, this one was half dry, but Yellow Wagtails were eventually seen, at least three birds seem, maybe four.

After a tip off, we went back down to the lookout area, seeing a few Swallows overhead and a Little Egret dropping in. At the lookout area, back looking for the Wheatear, a no show, but a Sedge Warbler made a quick burst of song, just to say it was there, attention went back to the Wheatear, which eventually popped up into view

Birds at Langsett : Blackbird, Blue Tit, Canada Goose, Chaffinch, Chiffchaff, Curlew, Dunnock, Goldfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Great Tit, Kestrel, Mallard, Nuthatch, Oystercatcher, Pheasant, Pied Flycatcher, Pied Wagtail, Raven, Red Grouse, Song Thrush, Swallow, Willow Warbler, Woodpigeon (23)

Birds at Adwick : Avocet, Black headed Gull, Black tailed Godwit, Blackbird, Blackcap, Blue Tit, Buzzard, Canada Goose, Cetti’s Warbler, Chiffchaff, Coot, Cormorant, Dunnock, Gadwall, Goldfinch, Great Tit, Green Woodpecker, Greenfinch, Grey Heron, Greylag Goose, lapwing, Little Egret, Little Ringed Plover, Long tailed Tit, Mallard, Moorhen, Oystercatcher, Pheasant, Pied Wagtail, Redshank, Reed Warbler, Robin, Shoveler, Skylark, Song Thrush, Stock Dove, Swallow, Teal, Wheatear, Willow Warbler, Wren, Yellow Wagtail (42) 154/200

Another sunny day and another day at Old Moor, the draw today was a pair of Black necked Grebes, they would be a new species for me at Old Moor (121), for this location. It wasn’t long before stepping into the reserve, that I was distracted by the song of a Reed Warbler (149), near the crossroads, so I stop in the hope of seeing it, maybe a photo too, I saw it moving around in the reeds, then it flew out seeing off a Blue Tit.

I made my way down towards the wader scrape, stopping first at the lookout hide, in the hope of yesterday’s Mediterranean Gulls but no joy, after looking thru countless Black headed, Lesser Black backed and Herring Gulls, other birds were Tufted Duck, Gadwall, Teal, Moorhen, Coot, Mute Swan, Greylag Geese, Canada Geese, and Cormorants.

Moving on then to Wader Scrape via Green Lane, overlooking the mere as I went, Redshank, Oystercatcher, seen, then I saw the Black necked Grebes but try as I could I couldn’t get a photo, think it was low down and heat haze that was the problem, I also had the problem with a Little Egret in the same area. After the Grebes I decided on putting my concentration in to the insects, seeing, Common Wasps, Bees, Spiders, Gorse Shieldbugs, Butterflies around were Brimstone, Green veined White, Orange tip, Peacocks, and Speckled Woods and also a Willow Warbler.

After my time at Old Moor I called in at Wombwell Ings, to see the male Garganey, took some finding, it was at the far side of the lake, need help in doing so, also on show were Skylarks, Little Ringed Plover, Ruff, Greenshank (150), Redshanks, Canada and Egyptian Geese

Birds Seen : Black headed Gull, Black necked Grebe, Blue Tit, Canada Goose, Carrion Crow, Chaffinch, Chiffchaff, Coot, Cormorant, Dunnock, Egyptian Goose, Gadwall, Garganey, Goldfinch, Great Tit, Greenshank, Greylag Goose, Herring Gull, Jackdaw, Lapwing, Lesser Black backed Gull, Little Ringed Plover, Long tailed Tit, Mallard, Moorhen, Mute Swan, Oystercatcher, Pochard, Reed Bunting, Reed Warbler, Robin, Ruff, Shelduck, Shoveler, Skylark, Starling, Stock Dove, Teal Tufted Duck, Wigeon, Willow Warbler, Woodpigeon, Wren (43) 150/200

Butterflies Seen : Brimstone, Green veined White, Orange tip, Peacock, Speckled Wood

Little Egret

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