It’s sometimes easy to overlook how beautiful “LBJs” can be!
Reed Bunting at Saltholme yesterday.

Autumn feast!!

Lucky enough to be in France at the moment - the local “robins” are a little different!

The bird box has some new rowdy tenants this year…

I have been birding for many years but today I witnessed something never seen before - a male blackbird essentially “lekking” to a rival. In a passable impression of a black grouse, his tail fanned up and out like a drawbridge and he mantled his wings, gaped and hissed - interesting stuff!!

Had two long walks in the Strid woods - very good numbers of singing Pied Flys, Redstarts present in small numbers but sadly no audible cues to suggest any Wood Warblers present
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Just seen my first Brimstone butterfly of the year 🙏🏻😃

A red kite circling over Easingwold marketplace was an unexpected surprise this morning! Sadly didn’t stay long due to the attentions of a grumpy jackdaw!

@yorkbirding.bsky.social a peregrine pair engaged in mating aerial acrobatics this morning over Dean’s Park!

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Looking for some help with a goose ID at Wheldrake this morning - a flock of Pink-foots came in with a White-fronted, but on reviewing the photo wonder whether there is a Bean Goose too?
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Plenty of Red Grouse on Bilsdale Moor on Friday but as usual on a “managed moor” little else…..

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@yorkbirding.bsky.social This one had me completely fooled with perfect sparrowhawk manoeuvres along a hedgerow, before landing on it!