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, February 6, 2011

Oxenhope

The gull man cometh, DCB arriving
A full overflow
White water

Oxenhope 1500-1630hrs Strong to near gale W>7 gusting 8. Drizzle with rain clouds passing to the east of us.

As expected, very quiet in the bleak conditions with no gulls coming in or attempting to roost at all. A few Goosander sheltered under the western banking wall and Goldeneye carried on diving oblivious to the conditions. A single cock pheasant was in the plantation.

6m 5f Goosander
2m 3f Goldeneye
1 Pheasant
BS, DCB.
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1 comments:

DJSutcliffe said...

You did quite well then this afternoon!!!! Better than me anyway - Ringstone and Baitings res'rs produced not a bird - even the ducks had deserted.