thorpe marsh

 just recentley i bought "best birdwatching sites yorkshire" to find new places to visit when out and about......thrope marsh north of doncaster got my interest being between slightly on the way to north cave 

so on the road early, not the easiest of places to find in the middle of nowhere but it turns out to be next to the power station thorpe which years ago you could see from southowram, found where you park but it didnt feel right! a car parked up with a broken window and loads of fly tipping stopped had a look and thought no give it a miss it just looked dodgy 

so on to faiburn not a place i really like but using my pass so free it was quite nice walking around the center boardwalks 

lots off bullfinch, a couple of redpoll, coal tit nothing special but the birds show well 

a 10 minute drive to swillington, parked at the rspb car park cos i can for nowt ! when i got to western reedbed my heart sank the mad but very enthusiastic geordie woman was there, i tried to ignore her but she kept saying kingfisher kingfisher then proceeded to tell me everything she has seen, her poor husband was just rolling a ciggie poor bloke 

working out which way she was going i headed the other way much better 

red kite quartering the ings 

a few cettis warblers singing 

lots of wigeon and 6 pintails on the main lake very nice 

western reedbed was far better 

6 dunlin

2 golden plover 

1 redshank

2 curlew

4 little egrets

1 peregrine 

a nice stonechat by the eastern reedbed, as i was heading towards the hillside i could hear a pipit calling quite distinctive just one syllabel "zweep" is how id describe it then i could see a nice large pipit in flight water pipet