Tomorrow evening 😀

Lovely wheatears at St Aidan’s before the wind and rain came.

Yellow wagtail at Pugneys after tea ✅

Little ringed plover at Adwick RSPB_OldMoor

Saw these at Pugneys. Also lesser whitethroat and reed warbler but they were not posing for photos!

Whinchats and avocets and a dunlin, lots of swifts, sand and house martins at Wombwell Ings this afternoon Barnsley Birders

So is this where the escapees and rarities come from 😂

Spotted flycatcher by the river Calder ✅ and a singing whitethroat

Nice day out at Padley Gorge. Pied flycatchers ✅ cuckoo, nuthatch, treecreeper

Struggling to identify this beetle from St Aidan’s this morning Swillington Ings Bird Group

Our next meeting is Thursday 1st August at 7.30. Swillington village hall. The speaker will be Richard Baines of Yorkshire Coast Nature. All welcome.

Juvenile redstart today ✅ Rabbit Ings

Black tern RSPB Fairburn Ings and RSPB St Aidan’s Swillington Ings Bird Group

Some pictures of the black tern at Pugneys this afternoon

Red necked phalarope at RSPB_OldMoor this afternoon