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, April 10, 2011

Soil Hill, west / Causeway Foot Col.

                                   1st man on the moon, Soil Hill summit.
                                  Watching over the col.

A bright warm evening with a slight SE>3 but limited visibility due to heat haze.
Swallows were moving through well,all into the wind whilst 3 Sand Martins came over >E and 2 House Martins were over the goose field which once again was alive with Meadow Pipits.
Thanks for call from DJS for possible move >NE this pm and just managed 1 moving Sparrowhawk very high >NE although a Marsh Harrier was reported moving this a.m. over Bingley, B.O.G.
 43 Swallow..........................mostly >SE
3 Sand Martin.................................>E
2 House Martin...................blogging
77 Woodpigeons.................in field
8 Stockdove.......................same field
3 Skylark
1 cock Pheasant
78 Meadow Pipit in goose field
1 Sparrowhawk......................mover...>NE
5 Mallard............................>NW
2 LBB gulls..........................>N
No Wheatears
BS

3 comments:

Danny said...

its is good with your picture

DJSutcliffe said...

Not a sign of a Common Sand this pm Bri - all hiding away I think. Complete change in the weather today. Queensbury would be back to normal then?

Brian Sumner said...

Thats right Dave , cold westerly and horizontal rain. Im suprised the Common Sands are,nt about but yesterday they spent a lot of time on the mud in the NE corner and took some finding. Possibly birds moving through. DCB has some back at Oxenhope also.