I arrived on site pretty early,parking at Crowle and walking onto Thorne as i normally do when visiting,seeing a couple of Garden Warblers with their lovely liquid song and also a brief view of 6 Red Deer as they disappeared into the woodland on the walk.
After crossing into Yorkshire a quick look on Will Pitts scrape revealed nothing of note,but it was just nice to be out in some warm sunshine for a change.
As i turned onto the Limestone Road,i could see another herd of Red Deer all sat down and i walked slowly towards them,taking some shots as i went,before they all got up and disappeared as the earlier animals had,but it was really nice to see some so well.
I arrived at the picnic bench,also known as blue bridge and spent the next 5 hours here watching every single bird in the sky.The rewards were between 25 and 30 Hobbies watched hawking Damselflies and Dragonflies,an impressive sight to say the least,with 20 seen in one scan of the sky.
Unfortunately we did not 100% confirm a Red-foot,but we did see a possible which we thought was one,but it was distant.
Other niceties seen included a male Bearded Tit,3 Cuckoo,a singing male Grasshopper Warbler and a male Willow Tit singing in Will Pitts Wood with quite a few Four-spot Chasers,Large-red Damselflies and my first Hairy Dragonfly of the year.
A very warm day out,but great to see so many Hobbies in the air together,the best site in Yorkshire for the species.
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| Red Deer,Thorne Moors. |
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| Red Deer,Thorne Moors. |
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| The Limestone Road,Thorne Moors. |
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| Thorne Moors. |
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| Hobby On The Look Out For Odonata,Thorne Moors. |
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| Hobby,Thorne Moors. |
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