Ryenats – Evening Moorland Walk

By On April 21, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Ryedale Natural History Society – ‘An evening moorland walk around Blakey’ led by Ken Hutchinson

This Wednesday evening 24th April Ryenats have their first outdoor field trip of the year on the moors at Blakey. We will be meeting at The Lion Inn at 6.30pm to have a short walk specifically looking for ‘moorland birds’ (we will [...]

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Buck Fallow & the Corn Hopper

By On March 11, 2013 · 1 Comment

I know that ‘Buck Fallow & the Corn Hopper’ sounds like a Country & Western duo! Well it’s not, so please don’t be put off reading this….

….I had been noticing lots of deer action around the corn bins in my local wood. I had also been seeing lots of deer droppings which were full of [...]

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Ground Feeding Treecreeper

By On March 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment

The great spotted woodpeckers make such a mess when they are eating nuts from the feeders that there are always a few birds hanging about on the ground below waiting to take advantage. Normally it’s chaffinches, blackbirds, robins and the compulsory pheasant or ten. This morning it was a surprise to see a treecreeper dodging the aggressive tits to benefit [...]

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My First Blogging Year

By On February 23, 2013 · 3 Comments

It is a year ago this week since I started my Wild Ryedale blog. I have spent most of the year concerned that I don’t post regularly enough. Overall on reflection and looking back through the video gallery I am really pleased with the content over the first year. I have shied away from just [...]

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Churchyard Hawfinch

By On February 8, 2013 · 2 Comments

Probably the least exciting video I have ever posted but it is my very first Hawfinch sighting so it is memorable for me.

It has been seen a few times over the past two weeks around the churchyard in Ampleforth so I decided to go and have a quick look. I didn’t really think there [...]

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Snowboarding in the North York Moors

By On February 2, 2013 · 1 Comment

It is not my normal nature & wildlife content but it was quite wild and it was in Ryedale.

Last Saturday after snow ploughing my drive so I could get out, a friend and I ventured out to a hidden valley between Old Byland and Hawnby. I usually manage to get a few quick [...]

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Otters, Fox & Snow

By On January 25, 2013 · 7 Comments

As promised, here is some more Bushnell wildlife camera footage taken on the banks of the River Rye.
I think there are two different otters. A larger mature otter rolling in the snow followed by a fox sniffing and scent marking where the otter has been rolling. Then a smaller juvenile otter comes along [...]

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Holt who goes there?

By On December 27, 2012 · 1 Comment

For the past week or so I have had a Bushnell wildlife camera on the entrance to the artificial otter holt that we have installed at work. These are some of the first images that we have caught. Hopefully we will get more in the New Year but in the meantime here is a sneaky peak at [...]

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Clean your feeders!

By On December 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment

They cost me a fortune but I have missed them…..
…..After advice from the ‘bird ringing’ team that there was evidence of a ‘great tit pox’ in the local area we haven’t been feeding for the past month.
All the feeders, bird tables and bird bath have been thoroughly cleaned (using CJ’s Biological [...]

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Giddy Fallow

By On November 3, 2012 · 3 Comments

 

As mentioned in a previous post I have been experimenting with infra-red motion sensor wildlife cameras over the last couple of months. It has taken a few weeks to work out where to position them and which settings to use and so far with only limited success. However, since putting one of the [...]

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