Doncaster Birding

BIRD REPORTS

DEARNE VALLEY – Old Moor – 2 Buzzard over Bolton, 1 Cetti’s Warbler, 4 Goldeneye, 31 Goosander, 1 Green Sandpiper, 3 Little Egret (Dave Simmonite and Barnsley Birders per Twitter)

PLEASE NOTE THAT OLD MOOR IS CLOSED ON CHRISTMAS DAY AND BOXING DAY

DON VALLEY – Rawmarsh – Haugh Road – 1 Buzzard, 1 Cormorant N, 50 Golden Plover SE, 9 Herring Gull S, 55 Pink-footed Goose E (Per today’s SBSG-RECENT NEWS)

DON VALLEY – Thrybergh – 1 Little Owl (Per today’s SBSG-RECENT NEWS)

DON VALLEY – Thrybergh CP – 4 Cormorant, 11 Gadwall, 2 Goldeneye, 3 Greylag Goose, 6 Little Grebe, 45+ Tufted Duck, 2 Water Rail (Per today’s SBSG-RECENT NEWS)

HUMBERHEAD PEATLANDS – Hatfield Moors – 2 Kestrel, 1 Marsh Harrier, c.40 Redpoll and 2 SHORT-EARED OWL (Col Neale). For further detail see today’s HATFIELD MOORS BIRDING BLOG.

POTTERIC CARR – 3 Little Egret, 290 Jackdaw, 4+ Goldcrest, 1 Treecreeper, c.20,000 Starling, 4 Mistle Thrush, c.20 Siskin (Andy Dalton and Richard Scott) For further detail see today’s POTTERIC CARR-SIGHTINGS

POTTERIC WILL BE CLOSED FROM 25TH – 28TH DECEMBER INCLUSIVE

NEW SPURN BIRD OBSERVATORY

As you may be aware, Spurn Bird Observatory have started a fundraising campaign to purchase a new Observatory building in Kilnsea to help with their migration studies and other educational work. If you have a few £s to spare and would like to help you can access the Just Giving appeal by clicking HERE

WEATHER REPORTS

LOCAL – Weather: overcast/cloudy until mid-afternoon with some heavy rain during the late morning; clear skies from mid-afternoon onwards. Visibility: mainly very good/excellent, occasionally good and poor. Temperatures: +11.6° to +3.8°C. Wind: light to moderate, occasionally strong, gusting from 32-48mph through much of the day, S until late morning then variable mainly SW/WSW thereafter. Surface pressure at 0000UTC: starting at 1012hPa falling to 1001hPa by late morning before beginning to rise slowly through the rest of the day finishing on 1015hPa. Fronts etc.: a N/S cold front moved E over the District during the late morning.

Moon phase – Full.
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