I took a foray out of the parish today to go and look for a
couple of Yorkshire rarities. I very rarely go twitching these days but I do
keep my Yorkshire bird list active so the chance of adding species number 359
and 360 to my county list was too tempting. These should have been a Brown Shrike
and a Collared Flycatcher which were both seen on the Holderness coast yesterday.
So an early start with Frank and we were over on Cowden Ranges by 7am but to
cut a long story short the birds had flown. In fact every rare/scarce bird on
the east coast seemed to have cleared out overnight!
A fruitless search did at least turn up a Barn Owl which
flew right over our heads, a Cuckoo and an astonishing density of singing warblers
including half a dozen Cetti’s and huge numbers of Whitethroats…
Later, back home I went with my botanist friend Helen to
look for Green-winged Orchids at a lovely site near Leyburn….
Beautiful plants…
Particularly this single white-variant we found…
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