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, August 14, 2011

Swallows on the move

Very few LBBs this morning

The result of a dog on the shoreline

A comfy position for this Common gull

Down the valley towards Mixenden

0730-1000hrs
Fly Flatts once again had to be aborted due to thick fog , rain and drizzle.
Ogden was better weather wise though quiet with only 4 LBBs amongst the gulls and little else about.
A walk up towards Withens Gap found Swallows piling over >S with odd House Martins mixed in but no sign of Swift.

Swallow..................................300+ >S
House Martin.......................8 >S
78 Common gull
118 BH gull
4 LBB gull
1 Kestrel
+ usual sp.
Beware of black duck on Ogden which was on its own in the middle and nearly had me going for the phone!
BS
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1 comments:

NigelK said...

I'm preparing some Orange Sauce for the same duck, it's had me going two or three times.