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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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Shelf Moor / Queensbury

A bright and breezy day with the wind dropping and no sign of rain.
A quick look at Shelf Moor this evening produced several feeding Swallows, 2 Swift >W , a flock of 14 Goldfinch on thistle tops and 200+ Starlings in the field including a few young. A Green Woodpecker was calling near the Lion gates.
Several LBB gulls were again moving over the village >NW whilst a Kestrel was hunting over Grimstons.
The first few young Starlings are starting to show in the park and Magpies are hanging around the ivy distressing the breeding House Sparrows.
Nice to talk to Gordon Denison in the garage today on his annual MOT visit with the camper.
BS

1 comments:

NigelK said...

Grey Wagtail singing from Black Dyke Mill rooftops around lunchtime today.