Your recent sightings at Blacktoft Sands
Your recent sightings
-
December Crane Spectacular!
Wow and wow again! What an amazing end to what has been an amazing year at the moment with yesterday a flock of nine spectacular cranes flying over the reserve and then over the reserve office allowing some breathtaking views of what must be one o...
Posted 05 Dec 2019 by Pete Short -
Red berries and winter thrushes
With December sweeping in and a few cool days the winter thrushes have suddenly descended on the big hawthorn hedge that runs alongside the reserve that is laden with beautiful red berries. With about 300 fieldfare , a good number of redwing,...
Posted 03 Dec 2019 by Pete Short -
November ends on a high - GW teal and Siberian chiffchaff
Its certainly been an interesting end to the month with a great range of top quality birds using the reserve and today at last the sun is shining! Nice too yesterday to see our familiar little friend the green-winged teal back on his favourite...
Posted 29 Nov 2019 by Pete Short -
Late Autumn Migrant Falls and Siberian flirtations
After been away from the reserve for a few days due to meetings and winter roost counts of the pink footed geese it was despite the drizzle and grey overcast skies simply one of those superb November mornings when there was hundreds of birds to lo...
Posted 27 Nov 2019 by Pete Short -
The Age of Discovery - Water pipits and Scandinavian rock pipits along the Humber
Its certainly been an interesting last few days here along the Humber with as usual plenty to discover and plenty to ponder! And although our wetland birds have been fantastic as have our birds of prey it seems that its been the passerines that...
Posted 18 Nov 2019 by Pete Short -
Friday update - a very wet affair
It seems like the rain is never going to relent at the moment with the local area getting another pasting yesterday of almost biblical proportions . But of course rainfall doesn't close Blacktoft its only tidal flooding and currently the tides are...
Posted 15 Nov 2019 by Pete Short
