I am based at Queensbury and bird around an approx 5 mile radius specializing in visible migration and upland birds.Any reports can be sent by text or call to 07771 705024 or see profile for e mail address. Feel free to post comments on this blog. All images on this blog are copyright.
The West Yorkshire Birder
Photo courtesy D. Barker
The birding team
photo courtesy of D.Shields
About Me
- Brian Sumner .
- Queensbury, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- Local birding at 1150 feet above sea level in the snow, fog and gales, and thats just in summer.
Keep up to date with Queensbury news
Birdbrain. Nigel Kerwin.
Halifax Bird Group
Calderdale Wildlife
Dean in South Yorkshire
Visible Migration
Dannysbirds
Andy Cockrofts blog
Elland Gravel Pits
Bradford Ornithological Group
Followers
THE CAUSEWAY FOOT COL.
Running north to south between Thornton Moor reservoir and Mixenden Reservoir. The col is flanked by Soil Hill on the east and Ovenden Moor on the West with Ogden Reservoir in the centre.
Visible Migration
Soil Hill Watchpoint looking >W. Highest watchpoint in West Yorks.
The Beauty of Visible Migration
Pink Footed Geese on the move
An Amazing Sight
Pink Footed Geese over Ogden
Winter Visitor to Soil Hill
Snow Bunting
A Queensbury winter bird
Common Gull
One of the better sightings
Buzzard over Queensbury
The Star of Visible Migration
Meadow Pipit
DUNLIN
A moorland breeder
Goldeneye
A winter visitor to the area.
House Sparrow, male
Popular above 1100ft
Little Owl
A Good Farmland Bird
Curlew
The sound of the uplands
Little Ringed Plover
A Protected Species
A passage migrant
Ringed Plover
Wigeon on the move
Cold Edge Dams
A December male Wigeon
Ogden
Winter Visitors
Whoopers at Fly Flatts
A classic upland bird
Twite
A hardy upland bird
Stonechat
An upland favourite
Wheatear
SOIL HILL SNOW BUNTINGS
The Birding Team
Ollie, Rooney and Buddy