Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Nov 22, 2009, 1:26 pm
Today I went on the Sheffield Bird Study Group’s “Twitcher’s Fieldtrip”. Basically it was a bit of a mystery tour, with no fixed destination, and decisions based on where we go...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Nov 17, 2009, 4:28 pm
Last week I had a trip to Carsington Water, a great site in Derbyshire I’ve never visited before. The main aim of the day was great northern diver, which we got reasonable quickly, although sadl...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Nov 5, 2009, 7:59 am
OK, I’ve still not got much interesting to write about, so I thought I’d make myself useful and do the first of some semi-regular posts on how to find certain species. Now November’...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Nov 2, 2009, 2:51 pm
Well, I was hoping to start November with some good hijinks from the weekend, as I fully intended to have a potter round Little Matlock Wood to get some mushrooms for my uni course on Saturday, and sp...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Oct 25, 2009, 2:51 pm
  Sorry, I haven’t updated for a while, but here’s a few details of the last couple of weekends. Last Saturday I had a uni fieldtrip to Ringinglow looking for fungi (I’ll do a myc...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Oct 13, 2009, 1:51 pm
Today I managed to have another crack at Spurn, after persuading my dad he needed to experience Spurn in autumn! The day started well with my first fieldfare of the winter, and a brambling in the ch...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Oct 5, 2009, 5:57 am
I had a great “from the house” tick yesterday with two buzzards low over Loxley Road, clearly visible from the living room window. I have seen distant buzzards overhead before in the Vall...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Sep 27, 2009, 3:57 pm
This morning it was a stupid o’clock start for a trip to Spurn with the SBSG. The recent westerly winds and nice sunny weather meant that I wasn’t expecting it to be a rarity-fest, and I w...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Sep 26, 2009, 9:52 am
This last two weekend’s I’ve actually had a walk on what is probably becoming one of the most neglected local patches in the country… Last week’s highlights were a dipper at S...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Sep 19, 2009, 3:05 pm
Before I get on with today’s sightings, a quick postscript to the last post. Here is a picture of the elusive Edderthorpe spotted crake, not taken by me but by Dave Simmonite, who not only had t...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Sep 16, 2009, 5:20 pm
This afternoon I finally managed to get up to Wombwell Ings and Edderthorpe Flash to twitch a couple of good birds that have been up there recently. The target of Wombwell was a pectoral sandpiper th...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Sep 13, 2009, 1:57 pm
This weekend I’ve been on my now annual September pilgrimage to Bridlington and Flamborough. This will be a very long post, with few photos (I tend to take fewer when I’m busy birdwatching...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Sep 10, 2009, 7:12 am
I’m off to Bridlington this weekend, for a yomp around Flamborough and a trip on the RSPB skua/shearwater cruise. Hopefully the winds will be vaguely easterly, and I’ll have plenty of good...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Sep 6, 2009, 11:00 am
On Thursday I had a trip to Potteric Carr, and got a lifer in the form of little stint, just in time too as it seems to have been the bird’s last day there. It was quite a good day for waders on...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Sep 2, 2009, 11:41 am
I had a quick walk round Redmires this afternoon, and finally caught up with the whinchats that I’ve spent the summer managing to miss. There were two of them by the Middle Res, along with a sli...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Sep 2, 2009, 5:02 am
August turned out to be a fairly uninspiring month for me in some ways, hence the lack of posts. A few notes from recent days though… On the 21st I saw what were probably now going to be my las...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Aug 23, 2009, 3:35 am
Yesterday I had a trip out to Old Moor and Edderthorpe in the company of Dave (Simmo on Birdforum). We started off at Old Moor, which had a good selection of waders on show, including black-tailed go...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Aug 9, 2009, 4:44 pm
Regular readers may have noticed the lack of reports from the Loxley Valley recently – to be honest it’s not the most productive of places during high summer, and I’ve been spending ...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Aug 9, 2009, 5:43 am
Yesterday I had a walk on the moorland fringe, hoping the warm weather would bring out some raptors, including the vague possibility of an early wandering osprey, but no such luck! In fact the best I ...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Jul 28, 2009, 1:31 pm
Today I had a trip to Attenborough NR near Nottingham for the first time. It’s a good reserve with some good species on show, even at this time of year, but possibly one I’ll try and visit...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Jul 27, 2009, 2:12 pm
I had a windy trip up to the moors again this afternoon – not a lot about in the blustery conditions up there, but I did manage to see 20 red grouse and a brief view of a hobby. On the way back...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Jul 23, 2009, 2:56 pm
OK these pics are a bit rubbish but indulge me - there’s really not much better things in life than watching swifts swooping above the valley on a summer’s evening.
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Jul 19, 2009, 12:38 pm
The title says it all… I spent a few hours this afternoon having a look around the NW moors, but ended up getting soaked in a series of quick but drenching showers. Only one or two good bits and...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Jul 18, 2009, 11:13 am
Here’s a couple of shots of six-spot burnet moths, that I found on the verge outside the house. They were on or near bird’s-foot trefoil, which is the main foodplant of the larvae, so I...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Jul 14, 2009, 7:17 am
Sorry, I’ve been a bit quiet of late, and hopefully I’ll have some interesting, wildlifey stuff to write about soon! As a piece of blatent filler to keep the blog ticking over, and weR...
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Pete M. posted an article on Sheffield Wildlife - Jul 4, 2009, 8:44 am
I hate being vague about locations on this blog, as I like to give as much gen as possible to others who may want a look, but when writing about raptors on the edge of the Peak District (even non-bree...
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