As forecast the strong winds and heavy rain hit us today with WSW>6 gusting 7 with a day of continuous horizontal rain. A last light visit to Shelf Moor tonight threw up a suprise with 2 Skylarks back in the gorse bush field, first Linnets and now Skylarks in the meadows, looks light spring is starting early.
Only a small flock of Lapwing was found but there were plenty Fieldfare, Redwing and Mistle Thrushes in the Hawthorns.
Shelf Moor pond was void of bird life.
Was planning my first trip to Fly Flatts this year in the morning but if this weather continues through the night it,ll be think again time.
BS
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.(2012).
The Breeding Season
The West Yorkshire Birder
Photo courtesy D. Barker
The birding team
photo courtesy of D.Shields
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- 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.
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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
Buzzards over Queensbury
The Star of Visible Migration
Meadow Pipit
A Persecuted Upland Game Bird
Red Grouse
An Upland Breeder
Oystercatcher
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
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May
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- Cold Edge Dams
- Soil Hill
- Shelf Moor
- Common garden stuff
- Quiet Times, Queensbury.
- Soil Hill dash.
- More pics from yesterday and Soil Hill Visit.
- Swifts and Dunlin, Soil Hill.
- Fly Flatts
- Soil Hill
- Passage birds
- Queensbury Today
- Queensbury old station.
- Hailstorms and sunshine
- Sunshine, Showers and Swifts
- Here we go again
- Fly Flatts/ Cold Edge Dams
- Causeway Foot col
- Swifts on the move
- Troubled Skies and singing Dunnocks.
- Yeadon Tarns Bar Headed Goose.
- Nice morning, shame about the afternoon.
- Queensbury Today
- Evening Trek ( 2hrs ) Ogden Clough
- Fly Flatts mega morn.
- Soil Hill / Ogden
- Fly Flatts/ Cold Edge Dams
- Ogden pm
- Queensbury Today
- A new web site for Queensbury
- Ogden pm visit
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April
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- Swifts moving through.
- Elland Gravel Pits
- Ogden and more rain.
- Soil Hill
- Shelf Moor/ Soil Hill west.
- Soil Hill Wheatear
- Photos from a blog watcher
- More Wheatears
- Shelf Moor Wheatears
- Queensbury Today
- Shelf Moor Wheatears
- Cold Edge Dams
- Rain, Hail, Sleet and Snow, Welcome to Fly Flatts....
- Ogden after tea.
- Tracys Wheatear field.
- Queensbury Today, more of the grey stuff.
- Fog, Rain then more Fog
- Swallow Skies
- Wheatears, there they were gone !.
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May
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The Birding Team
Ollie, Rooney and Buddy
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