A dim but very calm day today and the numbers of winter visitors are beginning to build up at Eske. On my walk to the lake this morning I saw just 2 Meadow Pipits and a group of about 100 Common Gulls on the way up. However, at the lake hundreds of Redwings and Fieldfares [...]
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British Birding: Another lap of Swinemoor
October 22nd, 2007 
Nick Another chilly trip to Swinemoor this morning turned up some more nice birds. The, by now, customary Redwings greeted me as I walked through a copse of hawthorns, accompanied by a few a Long-tailed Tits and Chaffinches. Out on the floods the numbers of gulls are still building up with around 150 Black-headed Gulls and [...]
Flowering Plants in October
October 17th, 2007 Nick A very sunny day was made surprisingly cold by a brisk north westerly wind, but I managed to find some sheltered, warm spots at the lake at Eske this morning. Although bird activity was not at its most spectacular today I noticed that there were still quite a few flowers around. I decided to see [...]
A Short Walk
October 16th, 2007 Nick I took another short walk around Swinemoor again this morning to see if any interesting waders were still to be found. The first birds I came across was a party of 5 Redwings which flew away from their feeding spot on the hawthorn bushes. On the floods the numbers of Black-headed Gulls had increased to [...]
Ornithological Research into Wildfowl
October 15th, 2007 Nick On Saturday morning my wife and I went to Hornsea Mere to feed the ducks – I’m afraid that statement alone says a lot about our so-called “research”. The ducks, geese and swans at Hornsea must be some of the best fed birds in the country, but whenever we turn up with some bread they [...]
A Quick stop at Swinemoor
October 12th, 2007 Nick With the excitement of the good birds at Swinemoor yesterday, I took a quick look again this morning. Despite there being plenty of flooded patches for feeding waders the numbers of birds had decreased from yesterday. Numbers of Lapwing were down to about 60-70 along with about 20 Black-headed Gulls and at first I didn’t find [...]
The Swinemoor Wader Festival
October 11th, 2007 Nick Well, this wasn’t so much a festival as a “small gig at an intimate venue”, but for this location the number and variety of waders present today was quite impressive. A misty start to the morning turned into a pleasant, sunny day and having seen a good number of birds on monday at Swinemoor I [...]
