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♂.Smew again #High_Eske_NR at c5pm +Ruddy Shelduck @rarebirder.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social #YorkshireBirding

Had 1st in East Yorkshire @tophilllow.bsky.social on Monday and had 3 others at other local sites since. Certainly very early.

all redheads

4 Goosander +3 Coot a surprise #Cottingham #Hull this morning on Orchard Park Lagoon #YorkshireBirding

Haven't bothered yet. Hopefully a good night soon.

8 Scaup [3♂,5♀] @tophilllow on D res at 11am. ♂.Smew again on Watton NR late morning but swam out of view but Ruddy Shelduck still 1pm @rarebirder.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social #YorkshireBirding

Wasn't Saint Cuthbert recognised as the first conservationist for protecting nesting Eider on the Farne Islands?

Saw nothing in Sunday but Roy Lyon had the geese on Monday. A lot of fields they could be in though.

No sign of any geese at Wilfholme Landing but 2 Whooper Swans W.of the farm. 10+ Russian White-fronted Geese #Dumble_Farm. ♂.Smew again #High_Eske_NR #YorkshireBirding

A few regularly in Millbeck Wildlife area.

2 ad.Russian White-fronted Geese #Cottingham/#hull on Orchard Park Lagoon 53.7882,-0.3989 at 10.15 with feral Greylags [my 1st for the Village] @rarebirder.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social #YorkshireBirding

“That’s false... that’s not how history went.”

Dutch Foreign Minister David van Weel says “we should speak out for the truth” in response to claims from President Trump that European soldiers stayed “a little off the frontlines” in Afghanistan.

#Newsnight

It's here, Big Garden Birdwatch has finally arrived.

We're off to a great start, with Woodpigeon, Robin, two Great Tits on the feeder and a Blackbird rummaging for berries.

Let us know in the comments what you're seeing and share your photos with us too we'd love to see them.

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Please help if you can!
I read Clinging to the edge.
After years of care & data it would be shameful if we can’t support this.
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Had my first as well.

Grey/blue-ish tracking collar on a Pink-footed Goose

Is anyone familiar with the scheme that puts these trackers on Pink-feet? There didn't appear to be any numbers on this one

#ukbirding

♂.Smew still #High_Eske_NR at 11:30 but mobile due to EA work @rarebirder.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social #YorkshireBirding

2025 in 12 pictures My health was much improved on 2024, but I didn’t feel up to long car journeys, so apart from a disastrous trip to Scarborough and a couple to North Lincolnshire, I never left East Yorkshire.…

Including some @tophilllow.bsky.social birdingandbikingblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/2...

2025 in 12 pictures My health was much improved on 2024, but I didn’t feel up to long car journeys, so apart from a disastrous trip to Scarborough and a couple to North Lincolnshire, I never left East Yorkshire.…

My highlights of 2025. 10 birds and 2 moths all in East Yorkshire #YorkshireBirding birdingandbikingblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/2...

Weren't too bad last night here anyway.

Or fireworks?

A dip in the sea on New Year's Day will feel relatively mild compared to the wind chill that can be expected on land

However, please be aware that the strong winds along eastern coasts will bring large waves and higher tides

Also I'm not immune as I have Swiss nationality through my father but have only spent a few hours there travelling via Geneva airport for a holiday in France.

Find this law highly worrying. Ok, someone who came here then led a criminal lifestyle or conspired against the state may deserve deportation but why should two people who have committed the same crimes be treated differently because one has another nationality by birth or came here as a child.

Assuming @tophilllow.bsky.social bird. Not reported for a while.

Ring-necked Parakeet y'day morning #Hull at Oppy Wood fishing pond cTA060336. 5 recently #Cottingham at Millhouse Woods Lane PS and 2 Thwaite Hall [attempted to nest in 2019] #YorkshireBirding

1♂ Smew
@tophilllow.bsky.social
on Watton NR still at 12.30
@rarebirder.bsky.social

@birdguides.bsky.social #YorkshireBirding

3 Blackcap [1♂] #Cottingham in my back garden #YorkshireBirding

Forgot to look for the Tawny Owls. Smew should hang on.