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No sightings of Roe Deer, Fox, Hare or Badger will be mentioned on this blog throughout the year and links will be removed from other blogs giving the whereabouts of these mammals due to the rising influx of poaching, long dogging and lamping by sick individuals.
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Sunday, July 28, 2013

Whimbrel on the move, Leeshaw

           The muck pile attracts plenty variety  juv Blackbird
                                                   LBBs moving through
                Another for the muck pile, juv Pheasant
                                 Plenty Lapwings, several juvs
                 Meadow Pipits starting to congregate
                               Hooray, Raggalds Flood back to life.

Ideal conditions this morning at Leeshaw reservoir with a W>4-5 , light drizzle and heavy showers throughout, good Tern, Wader movement stuff.
Despite that things were much quieter than last weekend with very little on the shoreline .
A nice surprise during one of the heavy showers when 2 Whimbrel lifted up from the northern hidden part of the reservoir and flew low over the moor before lifting up calling and heading >NW towards Lancashire. This sighting is just 1 month earlier than last years at Ringby.
Two Curlew were on the far shoreline, one being a very short billed juv.
Nice on the way back to see Raggalds Flood back to life after just 1 night of rain.

Leeshaw
2 Little Ringed Plovers
2 Whimbrel
1ad 1 juv Curlew
3 Common Sandpiper
4 Oystercatchers
2 juv Pheasants
100+ Lapwing
+ usual Mipits, Goldfinch gulls and corvids etc.
BS