A visit to Bolton-on-Swale for the Black-crowned Night Herons that have been there for a while. I only saw one when we were there and it was very distant but up to six have been seen according to the guy I spoke to in the hide.
Black-crowned Night Heron.
Just back from holiday so trying to catch up. If I can I will try to do a relatively local Blog in-dispersed with a holiday Blog. Anyway, at the end of last month my wife and I had a trip down to St Aidan’s just outside of Leeds. The birds were great and so was the weather although this time we unfortunately didn’t see Bittern (we did however hear a few) or Black-necked Grebe it was still a great day out though.
Loads of Sedge Warblers were singing in the reeds.
Reed Warbler.
Shoveler.
Common Tern with Little Ringed Plover.
Common Tern.
Gadwall.
Black-headed Gull with nesting material.
Great Crested Grebe displaying.
Graylag chick.
Blue-tailed Damselfly.
We stopped off at a pub on the way back home and this
female Grey Wagtail was taking insects back to its young.
The day after we went to Bempton Cliffs we went on a nostalgic trip to Scarborough. We walked everywhere remembering old times and reminiscing about our families and what we did when we went on holiday to Scarborough years ago. I took quite a few photos on my phone while we were walking around however the only wildlife related photos I took were of a Cormorant and a Gull.
Cormorant
Gull trying to eat a teabag.
My wife and I decided to have another trip to Studley Royal to try and get to see the Red Deer rutting. We did see some of what I would call practice rutting by some of the males but not the real full-on thing that we were hoping for. I think most of the images speak for themselves so notmanywords. Once again, a couple of the images are a bit graphic so do not look if you are sensitive.
Not something you see every day.
We saw this on the way back to the car.
