Northowram Waxcap and Spindle

 

Butterfly's 30th September

 In the garden today there were 8 Red Admiral and 1 Comma feeding on seedum ,wont be many more before the winter. An excellent year at Northowram for butterfly's with good numbers of  Holly Blue , Wall Brown Speckled Wood and Comma...

Calm at the gap

 A very quiet morning  after a very hectic few days at the Gap saw little or no movement south today ,in the bay , 

22 lapwing west , 70 Golden Plover blogging , 7 House martin , 20 Shag , 30 Red throated Diver , 175+ Teal , 30 Widgeon , 1 Pintail ,1 Artic Skua , 1 Peregrine Falcon , Gannet 300 + , 2 kittiwake , 3 Swallows and a very late Swift , a few local Linnets , Reed Buntings , 1 Stonechat ,  10 Yellowhammer , 2 Common Scoter , 10 juv Common Terns and 20 Bottle nose Dolphins....

Eastern Olivaceous Warbler , Long Nab.....

 After another hectic morning  at the Gap I headed up the coast to see the Eastern Olivaceous Warbler and it showed very well in bursts ...Another great bird to see in Yorkshire..

A Tide of Finches

 Busy from the off with flocks of finches heading south  a total of 1300 finches in 3 hours is some counting + all the local stuff moving about....A pod of 9 Bottle Nosed Dolphin , 1 Little Gull and a Little Egret made for a brilliant morning ..Many thanks to Keith Clarkson...(the legend)....still a few Red Admiral moving south

 

Madness at the Gap..............

Clifden Nonpareil ( Blue Underwing)

Red Underwing

                     Convolvulus Hawkmoths male and female and Blue Underwing
 

Hunmanby Gap Vis...

 

Soil Hill Vis....

Meadow pipit x 145

Pinks x 55 + 58 

Redpoll x 5 

Goldfinch x 41

Skylark x 3

Swallow x 2 

Alba x 3

Greenfinch x 5

Raven ,RL PArtridge , Sparrowhawk and Kes locals..

Thanks DJS

Soil Hill Vis - mig..

Meadow Pipits x 395 s/w

Swallow x 17 s/w

Pinks x 32 east 

Chaffinch x 2 s/w 

BH Gull x 3 s/w 

Present Stonechat x 3 Kestrel x 1 , Starling x 13, Chiffchaff x 1 few corvids kicking about....

Northowram Cricket Pitch and Fields

 Great to see a young Little Owl on one of the dry stone walls today , not seen one for a few years.Also a cracking adult female Wheatear yesterday , Chiffchaff in the long hedge , 7 House Martin south last night and a few Swallows south today. A small flock of Meadow Pipit over the fields contained a Nuthatch in vis /mig mode. Sparrowhawks most days recently and still plenty Red Admirals moving south...

Welsh 3000 and Moel Siabod...

 A long weekend in Snowdonia , 36 miles walked ,uphill 14,000 feet , dowhill 13,000 feet , time walking 24 hours ..Mountains walked in pretty atrocious conditions..

1)Snowdon ..3560ft

2) Carnedd Ugain 3494 ft

3) Carnedd Llewelyn  3491 ft

4) Carnedd Dafydd 3425 ft 

5) Glydr Fawr   3278ft

6) Glydr Fach 3261 ft 

7) Pen Yr Ole Wen 3209 ft

8) Yr Ellen   3156 ft

9) Y Garn   3107 ft

10)  Y Garn 3107 ft

11) Foel Fras 3091 ft

12) Gwnenellin 3038 ft

13) Eldir  fawr 3031 ft

14)The mighty Tyfan...3002 ft

15) Moel Siabod 2861 ft

Pen Y Fan....

 A 9 mile hike around the ridges surrounding Pen Y Fan 2907ft (20th) , Cribyn 2608ft and Corn Du 2864ft (22nd) a beautiful sunny day with easy paths all around...........Small numbers of Wheatear(15 +)

Meadow Pipit 100 + , Swallow 40 + House Martin 17 , Red Kite 4 , Skylark , Stonechat 20 +, Whinchat 2 all moving S/W........

Aran Ridge

An 11 mile walk from Llanuwchllyn up to Aran Fawddwy 2969 ft (16th) passing Aran Benllyn 2904ft (21st) and Erw Ddafad Duu 2861ft (23rd) . The wind was gale force and the ridge path was dangerous on the way up I returned away from the ridge on the way down..