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
WELCOME TO ( WEST YORKSHIRE BIRDING )

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Shelf Moor Lapwings



Daughter and husband moving house to Shelf Moor so no time for birding today other than watching the fields each time I drove past.
A small flock of c40 Lapwings were very mobile moving from field to field throughout the day along with c30 Common gulls.
A Little Owl kept appearing on the roadside wires as did a female Kestrel.
Several flocks of Fieldfare were moving around the Hawthorn bushes with a smaller number of Redwing.
Most important job at the new house was the bird feeder up in the back garden so Id something to keep my eye on whilst working there.
Well done to DJS for finding another, or the same, Snow Bunting on Soil Hill, thats
typical on the first Sunday that I couldnt get up there.
BS
Posted by Picasa

3 comments:

DJSutcliffe said...

I thought you had taken your bat home Bri seeing as someone has shifted your big rock - and after all that trouble you had getting it up there in the car!!!!

Brian Sumner said...

Ive got it in the back of the car Dave to keep it safe till I can get back up there.If you want to borrow it to sit on call up for it. Well done on the Snow Bunt, I bet its the same bird thats hanging around?

NigelK said...

I'm not so sure about it being the same bird as on Saturday 20/11 I combed that area from 1405-1510 hrs without a squeak. In fact my potential passerine blank was spoiled by a single Chaffinch as I was leaving.