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Chrise
I`m lucky to live a mile away from Potteric Carr nature reserve - it`s a wetland area so you will find all the usual suspects there, plus kingfishers, heron and bittern. Even nearer is Lakeside where great crested grebe live - they were doing their courtship dance recently. The area is very popular with walkers as there is a shopping outlet, leisure centre and Keepmoat Stadium close by. I`m not a twitcher but like to know what birds I`m looking at - recently there were fieldfare in the adjacent farmer`s field and I`ve spotted grey wagtails - there are many dykes and drains in the area.

Raffles
Try this one ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2FM3_h33Tg

Well done geting and thanks tyke for hosting

Nice. Many thanks for the votes everyone and thanks for hosting, Tyke. I couldn't play the Churchill video either but enjoyed the others, especially the grebes. Still several weeks to go before there will be any billing and cooing hereabouts

The new link worked for me, ta.

tyke
I've been to Potteric Carr - some friends live at Scrooby, not too far away. I particularly remember the horseflies!

We have commented to each other that we haven't seen any winter thrushes at all this year - usually we see lots of redwings and fieldfares. A bit worrying.

Also, last year between New Year and Easter the commonest birds in our garden were siskins, superseding goldfinches. We saw the first one this year three days ago!

Chris
I know Scrooby - had a nice meal in the Pilgrim Fathers many years ago. I thought last summer there were fewer insects than usual - tough times for birds.
There's been a good 4 part tv doc featuring a year of Yorkshire wildlife - great footage of Bempton Cliffs and Malham - still available I imagine.

Very nice, geting. Thanks for hosting, tyke, and for the votes, chrise and wil.

Yes, there has been a lot of interest in the Peregrine Falcons nesting actually on Malham Cove.
I've been to Bempton Cliffs just the once. Spectacular cliff birds, and there was a visiting Shore Lark, with only a couple of twitchers taking an interest.
That reminds me of a visit we made to a coastal nature reserve in Hampshire. We were looking at a bird on the shingle. A passing woman asked us what it was. "Snow bunting" I said. "Oh" she said " that's what all those twitchers over there (pointing about 400 meters away) are looking for!".
Apparently the first ever county record.

[Malham isn't all that far from us, so we know the area well.]