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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · 18d

Despite lots of suitable habitat, it's taken a surprisingly long time for me to add Common Stonechat to my Buckton patch list. @bucktonbirder.bsky.social @rspbbemptoncliffs.bsky.social

Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · 20d

Also an Osprey south through Buckton pond 09:25

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · 28d

A new blog featuring the perilous lives of the young raptors found along the coastal fields and cliffs of Flamborough Head. www.jeffclarkenature.com/post/attrition @flamboroughbird.bsky.social @bucktonbirder.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @rspbbemptoncliffs.bsky.social @bemptonbirder.bsky.social

Attrition

It’s September as I type these words. The hedgerows are resplendent with berries, awaiting the fall of migrant thrushes from continental Europe, the cereal crops have all been harvested and the fields...

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · 28d

The bushes of Buckton and Bempton are still hosting plenty of these beautiful little bandits (Lesser Whitethroats Curruca curruca), feasting on the elderberries to fuel their migrations. @bucktonbirder.bsky.social @rspbbemptoncliffs.bsky.social Photo from this morning along Hoddy Cows Lane.

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · Aug 31

I get sick of hearing people, who should know better, indulge in in RSPB bashing. Get over yourselves! No organisation is perfect but the RSPB, in my lifetime, has done more than any other body in the UK to protect our wildlife. @rspb.bsky.social Thank you! Here's a Marsh Harrier to celebrate you.

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · Jul 31

By now (31st July) most UK breeding warblers have started their migratory return to favoured wintering grounds. This Common Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) at Buckton seems to have elected to cram in an extra brood. Still feeding the fledglings today. @flamboroughbird.bsky.social

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · Jul 30

I spent an enjoyable half-hour playing peek-a-boo with the Lesser Whitethroats along Hoddy Cows Lane yesterday evening. @bucktonbirder.bsky.social @flamboroughbird.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @rspbbemptoncliffs.bsky.social @hesitantweasel.bsky.social

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · Jul 6

Has anyone else every seen the curlew tribe 'anting'?

In Iceland I watched this Eurasian Whimbrel pick ants off the plants & place them deliberately on different part of its plumage. @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @aba.org @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · Jul 4

Sowerby's Beaked Whale is an infrequently observed cetacean. Here's my blog about a recent fantastic encounter in the Iceland Basin www.jeffclarkenature.com/post/rolling... With plenty of instructive and thought-provoking images. @whalesorg.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

Rolling in the Deep

As a cruise ship wildlife speaker and as a member of the Ocean Wildlife Encounters (OWE) team, I get to visit some pretty remote and exotic parts of our blue planet. As the song goes "Far have I trave...

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · Jun 8

Celebrating #WorldOceansDay on the East Yorkshire coast at @rspbbemptoncliffs.bsky.social and Buckton. Taken this morning at this sensational seabird city.

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · Jun 5

Top shot. Fab.

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · May 31

My local Peregrine tiercel was on a favoured perch calling to his partner early this morning. It's usually the falcon I see perched there so it made a change.

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · May 27

Our now resident 2nd calendar year Peregrine Falcon was back on her favourite perch along the Yorkshire coast this evening. If you want to know more about this interesting bird you can read my latest blog here. www.jeffclarkenature.com/post/the-wan...

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · May 25

The illegal persecution of raptors continues unabated in the UK. When was the last time you found successfully nesting Peregrine Falcons on, or near, a grouse moor?

This blog celebrates this charismatic predator. Long live the Peregrine! www.jeffclarkenature.com/post/the-wan...

The Wanderer

All images by Jeff ClarkePeregrine Falcon - unique female brown bird photographed Northwich, UK May 2006 © Jeff ClarkeAs a young birdwatcher in the 1970's seeing a Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus wa...

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · May 11

The significant majority of Columba livia resident on the cliffs of @rspbbemptoncliffs.bsky.social and at Buckton are pure looking Rock Doves and act like it, at a location they would have bred at naturally for millenia. For me they are Rock Doves even if a percentage of birds show 'feral traits'.

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · May 11

The Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra, is a 'poster-child' for the decimation of biodiversity caused by modern farming intensification and the overuse of pesticides. From abundant farmland bird to largely absent in 40 years. @rspb.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @rspbbemptoncliffs.bsky.social

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · May 2

I'm in the chair for Naturewatch this Saturday 3rd May. Approx. 7:20am on BBC Merseyside 95.8fm or online. I'll be joining Paul Beesley's Breakfast Show. We'll be discussing insect declines, meadows & the dawn chorus. Join us. @beezoradio.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @hesitantweasel.bsky.social

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · Apr 27

Could hardly believe my eyes when looking out of the window very early this morning. This stunning male Hawfinch was bouncing around underneath the garden feeders in Buckton @bucktonbirder.bsky.social @hesitantweasel.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @flamboroughbird.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · Apr 21

A few nights ago I gave my Antipodes - Edge of the Abyss talk to Hudds&Halifax RSPB group. Many thanks for the donation of £48.11 towards #SavingSeabirdsGlobally @rspb.bsky.social

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · Apr 21

My contribution to #worldcurlewday a Hudsonian Whimbrel I photographed in Arica, Chile during a gig for Ocean Wildlife Encounters.

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · Apr 21

The Buckton Barn Owl finally gave me a close-up. Pity the light wasn't quite right. Wildlife photographers do nothing but moan! 😂 @bucktonbirder.bsky.social

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · Apr 21

Another Happy Hare Day at Buckton. Always fun trying to capture the moment when all four legs are off the ground.

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · Apr 18

Sometimes we need to be inspired to get off our backsides and take action. We live on the most extraordinary planet in the galaxy. Defend it!

Go outside and listen to birds singing. www.jeffclarkenature.com/post/birdsong

Vote wisely, spend strategically!

Birdsong

Assuming you have normal hearing, imagine a world without the sound of birds singing and calling.Even in our most industrialised and urbanised locations it is still possible to hear birds, but we shou...

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · Mar 30

I often carry my camera on my Buckton 'local patch' sojourns, often to no avail. Every now and again you get lucky. Today I got eye-to-eye with a beautiful Brown Hare. @bucktonbirder.bsky.social

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Jeff Clarke @birderjeff.bsky.social · Mar 20

A Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis sings on Astmoor saltmarsh in Runcorn, UK 19th March 2025. It's sitting on a piece of WWII human history. The steel post has a hole through which a steel hauser would pass. A line of defence protecting a deadly secret. @hesitantweasel.bsky.social

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