The Breeding Season

As from now until the end of the breeding season birds of a sensitive nature will be omitted from this blog due to a small percentage of undesirables who take their pleasure from egg collecting, nest destroying and the killing and trapping of birds.
Reports of non breeding birds moving through the area will still be published. BS
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Sunday, October 24, 2010

Soil Hill

The rock on the top.
Dark cloud over DJS on Hunter Hill
A race north

Soil Hill 1500-1700hrs Cold N >3 inc. >5 Bright skies but hazy on far horizons though Ingleborough visible.
Not as productive as expected but still some Fieldfare and Redwing moving through. Redwing were going low >S and the Fieldfare were coming low over Thornton Moor before dropping below the skyline and heading >SW over the moor. Three Cormorant came through the Arc from the NW and headed >SE towards Yeadon.
Lapwings and Golden Plover were in the field behind the NK pond and at least 2 Goldeneye were diving on Mixenden Reservoir, possibly 4 birds in total but too distant to tell, possibly DJS ,who I spoke to by mobile on Hunter Hill, may know more.

Movers :-
72 Fieldfare.............................>SW
15 Redwing.............................>S
3 Cormorant...........................>SE

Other
83 Lapwing
5 Golden Plover
2 poss. 4 Goldeneye, Mixenden
BS
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2 comments:

DJSutcliffe said...

I could only see 2 female types there Bri but from the watchpoint only about 2/3rds of the res'r visible because of the trees. I will do a full check of the res'r in the morning!

Brian Sumner said...

Could see 4 ducks close together in the nw corner in the shade of the trees but only got 2 diving. None were white males.