August 6, 2013 archive

Visit to North Cave Wetlands : 6th August 2013

Visit to North Cave Wetlands : 6th August 2013

Our visit to the Yorkshire coast involved a bit of a stay over in Hull so that we could have enough tome to fit in visits to the RSPB site at Blacktoft Sands and the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust site North Cave Wetlands. This is a continuously developing site with a number of bodies of water and scrapes and fields on either side of a long lane that also has a few hides and some “blinds” along one side of the path. There is sometimes a mobile cafe but it had closed for the day and moved off the site by the time we got there. It seems that the lady who provides the service starts very early in the morning ! At the end of the path you can see the gravel and sand pits that are used for extraction and on one side is a spanking new hide that looks over about a 200 degree view of the surrounding bodies of water. This is quite impressive and very comfortable but we didn’t see a great deal from here except lots of Greylag Geese, Ravens and Great and Lesser Back-Backed and Black-headed Gulls. However when we visited other parts of the site, there were some good birds for us to discover. Continue reading

Visit to Blacktoft Sands : 6th August 2013

Visit to Blacktoft Sands : 6th August 2013

Wood Sandpiper Blacktoft Sands

Wood Sandpiper Blacktoft Sands

We went to the Yorkshire coast at this time of year last year but this time we decided to add in a couple of new sites for us. The first of these was the RSPB site at Blacktoft Sands which has featured on our birding group schedule from time to time but, for one reason or another, has never materialised. In fact the last birding group member to go there said it was a bit of a disappointment. Our experience was quite different, however, and we had fantastic views of some fantastic birds and had the opportunity to add a few ticks to our 2013 year list.
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