A long time since I visited this area and I just arrived i the hide at Broomhill Flash before the rain started.
Lots of swifts, sand and house martins flying low as they hunted insects. On the island in front of the hide were lapwing, gadwall, shoveler and little egret.
A raven flew across the far end of the reserve and joined another one on a pylon. Year tick 184.
Just over an hour later I drove to RSPB Old Moor. A few changes since my last visit. Tree sparrow farm has changed a bit and the only birds to be seen were great tits and greenfinches. Lots of canada geese in front of the family hide. No waders on the wader scrape so I joined Gerald in the Wath Ings hide, and also some members of the York local group were also there.
Spoonbills, greenshanks, dunlin, ringed plover and common sandpipers busy feeding.
Gerald and I then walked to the Reedbed hide, and on the way we met the people from York again. From the hide we saw a kingfisher fly across the scrape. A pleasant day.
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