James

19 y/o Yorkshire birder/photographer/twitcher Life list 380 (lesser crested tern)

[James @James_B___]

2025 was an odd year but got some great birding in nonetheless. Migfest as always was a highlight especially with @GeorgieWightman @Northern_Birder @OscarPuls @NatureDan2007 and many more. 16 lifers takes me to 380 for Britain and 308 for Yorkshire after the lumps.

[James @James_B___]

Red-footed falcon at north duffield carrs this afternoon (08/05/25), incredible find by @chrisgomersall1

[James @James_B___]

Now back from Cyprus, an incredible trip with @Northern_Birder . I finished with 31 bird life ✅’s and saw plenty of other amazing birds, reptiles, butterflies and people too. It wouldn’t have been the same without the help and guiding of @AndersG2211 who I cannot thank enough.

[James @James_B___]

Day 3 on Cyprus, Blue-cheeked bee-eater!! Picked up distantly with @AndersG2211 who got me 7 more life ✅’s today including euro roller, GS cuckoo, black francolin, E bonelli’s warbler, LL buzzard, and G flamingo.
@Northern_Birder

[James @James_B___]

Incredible first day and a half in Cyprus with @Northern_Birder, 14 life ✅ for me so far birding around paphos. Cretzshmar’s bunting, red-rumped swallow, trumpeter finch, and desert finch pictured

[James @James_B___]

Patch ✅ whooper swans this evening, making their way back north. Common scoter heard last night was also a ✅. #PWC2026 @YorkBirding

[James @James_B___]

Good afternoon around the @YorkBirding area. Starting off with brambling, then moving to the @LDV_NNR with 100 white fronts, 22 bean geese, 2 great egrets, and a stunning, albeit distant, male smew at thorganby.

[James @James_B___]

Great start to the @YorkBirding year. Waxwing at acaster, tundra bean geese and scaup in the @LDV_NNR and great to see the shags at castle Howard this morning with @chrisgomersall1
York list is now on 198.

[LDV NNR @LDV_NNR]

The #LDV monthly sightings have now been updated on our NNR blog, including December - https://t.co/WRzIZz8ua1. Many thanks to everyone who contributed records and counts throughout the month, in particular to members of @YorkBirding and regular patch birder @Duncbye

[James @James_B___]

Brilliant start to the new year with a trip to the Netherlands. 5 life ✅s were black+middle spotted woodpecker, bufflehead, black-winged kite and ST treecreeper. Other highlights - RL buzzard, Hen harrier, hawfinch, goshawk and the small wintering population of flamingos.

[LDV NNR @LDV_NNR]

It’s been a real purple patch for the #LDV over the last few days, with the highlight being a juvenile White-tailed Eagle + a male Hen Harrier, drake Smew, Glossy Ibis, two Scaup, two Caspian Gulls, two Tundra Bean Geese & up to 19 White-fronted Geese @YorkBirding

[James @James_B___]

@YorkBirding ✅ 195 and Yorkshire tick ✅ 308 was the colossal white tailed eagle at thorganby yesterday, very happy I managed to catch up with it. Spotted redshank at bubwith bridge was nice too.

[LDV NNR @LDV_NNR]

After five years in the making, the first copies of the new ‘Birds of the #LowerDerwentValley – a Historical, Conservation & Migration Review’ have finally arrived 🤩 More information about the book can be found on our recent Facebook post (snipped below) 📖🐦🐦‍⬛🦆🪶 @YorkBirding

[James @James_B___]

Life ✅ 383, lesser crested tern from starcross this afternoon. Top tier phone-scoping from me as per. Cirl bunting at the turf hotel was nice to see and great to catch up with @Bird3r

[James @James_B___]

Red-throated diver and red crested pochard at CHL today, @YorkBirding ✅
Unfortunately no sign of the bittern early afternoon

[James @James_B___]

Enjoyable days birding @FlamboroughBird this weekend. Highlights being the dusky warbler(s), LT skua, little gulls, black redstart, Merlin, lots of RT divers and some dolphins. Watching a woodcock fly in off was pretty cool too. Nice to catch up with @EuraKestrel and @Bird3r

[Morgan Caygill @EuraKestrel]

Dusky Warbler showing nicely at Flamborough this morning, good to bump into @James_B___ as well. #birding @FlamboroughBird

[James @James_B___]

Nice afternoon @FlamboroughBird , no pallid swift for me but the Pallas’ warbler made up for it. Showed much better than the yellow browed which stayed deep in cover mostly.

[James @James_B___]

Most painful dip I’ll probably ever experience, managed to miss the needletail at bempton, filey, and Scarborough. Had a great few days out anyways, at least the Caspian gull and snow bunting showed well. Great to see so many familiar faces.

[James @James_B___]

After 3 trips and three dips it was amazing to finally get ID’able views of white-winged scoter at Musselburgh today ✅ 381! The marsh sandpiper was showing well too, life ✅ 382. Red necked grebe and curlew sandpiper weren’t a bad support act.