June 15, 2015 archive

Birding Group Visit to North Cave : 15th June 2015

Birding Group Visit to North Cave : 15th June 2015

We left Blacktoft Sands around 2pm and drove back up to the motorway and then across the other side of the River Ouse to the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reserve at North Cave. Here we were pleased to find that the site was full of wildlife and there were birds aplenty – especially the raucous Black-headed Gulls with their hungry young but also very large numbers Greylag Geese and a good smattering of other, perhaps more interesting, birds.

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Birding Group Visit to Blacktoft Sands : 15th June 2015

Birding Group Visit to Blacktoft Sands : 15th June 2015

Our birding group outing this week was a two-day event taking in Blacktoft Sands, North Cave and Bempton Cliffs. On the first day we went to Blacktoft and North Cave. The drive was about two and a quarter hours so we arrived at Blacktoft Sands around 11.15am. Our target bird was clearly going to be a Montagu’s Harrier, a pair of which had bred here this year and now had young.

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