Posted: Friday 3rd August 2012 by WildlifeSightings
Barn owl - credit Wildstock
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3rd August
Castle Howard - Saw a barn owl about an hour ago at @ArboretumTrust
Adam Spokes, via Twitter @adamspokes
7th August
YWT Noddle Hill LNR - the bat walk at Noddle Hill Nature Reserve was brilliant. We saw pipistrelles and daubentons.
Vanessa Teal, via Twitter @nessthehat
8th August
Blacktoft Sands - Good day at Blacktoft Sands, saw a Bittern in flight at 30 yards.
Mal Jones, YWT member
8th August
Castleford - I wondered what had scared the little birdies out of the garden... Sparrowhawk pic.twitter.com/D14xGLBK
Johanna Hilton, via Twitter @johanna_hilton
9th August
Wykeham Viewpoint - First, a male bullfinch offering a colourful distraction, then a couple of goshaws then a honey buzzard followed by another . Then two common buzzards went up to inspect them as well.
Mal Jones, YWT member
10th August
Between Spurn Point and Withernsea - I regularly see at least 10 Barn Owls in different areas plus a family of Little owls at Out Newton.
Jill Smith
10th August
Thornton Dale - I finally got the lesser spotted woodpecker which has been skimming past my window at 5.30 all summer on a mission to somebody's feed station. They are a fast bird , but this morning I got it moving up the trunk of the Ash.
Mal Jones, YWT member
11th August
YWT Kiplingcotes and Rifle Butts Quarry - Chalk grassland flowers looking amazing on Wolds Wander today. Also spotted flycatchers feeding at Rifle Butts Quarry, plus yellowhammers singing all day.
Caroline Commins, YWT Reserves Manager
14th August
YWT Potteric Carr - a great day for bird sightings with a bittern, black necked grebe and an osprey all seen.
Richard Sykes, YWT Visitor Services Manager
15th August
YWT Filey Dams - 2 greenshank , 2 common sandpiper , 1 whitethroat , 1 willow tit , 2 bullfinches male and female, 3 goldfinches , 2 little grebes, plenty of greylag and canada geese, coots and moorhens with young , mallard, and black-headed gull juveniles.
Mal Jones, YWT member
16th August
York - Saw a sparrowhawk in my back garden today in York!
Adam Spokes, via Twitter @AdamSpokes
29th August
Wetherby - Bullfinches galore this morning! 1 Male, 1 Female & 3 Juveniles.
Susan Turner, via Twitter @gazaniagal
31st August
York - Heard a tawny owl on the Knavesmire last night near your offices!
via Twitter @littlehux
31st August
YWT Pulfin Bog - spotted redshank, 2 greenshanks over YWT Pulfin Bog today and several Hobbies.
Jono Leadley, YWT Director of Development
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The Barn Owls at Filey Dams are reported to have reared 4 chicks this year in the rebuilt Owl box , which is best viewed from the hide along the path to the right of the car park Mal Jones YWT member
Tuesday 28th August 2012
by Mal Jones
Good to hear of another Barn Owl sighting . I got one passing over the road west of Malton a while back and I have -only- 2 reports this year near Thornton Dale to High Marishes area so am hopeful of a breeding pair - as against 5 pairs before the bad snow Mal Jones YWT member Thornton Dale
Friday 10th August 2012
by Mal Jones