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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.
BS




Saturday, June 7, 2014

Wader Season

                     Redshank



             Common Sandpiper
           Unlucky frog, LBBs supper
                                        Very little shoreline



A late afternoon visit to Oxenhope,( members only ), after a day of thick fog and heavy to torrential rain.
Luckily by 1600hrs it have cleared and the rain held off apart from light showers on a stiff WNW>5.
With high water and very little shoreline I was surprised to get any waders at all but despite that Common Sandpipers, Redshank and Oystercatchers were present, the latter being with the gulls on the south wall which were a scoping job.
A Sedge Warbler was in good voice but keeping down other than a brief sighting whilst a LBB gull flying over suddenly dropped out of the sky into the water and took off again with a frog.
Families of Meadow Pipit and Pied Wagtail were everywhere and sad to see a large adult Roe Deer that had fallen into the overflow and drowned.

2 Redshank
3 Common Sandpiper
2 Oystercatchers
38 LBB gulls
3 Herring gulls
1 Sedge Warbler
2 Willow Warbler
9 Mallard
4 Curlew
8 Pied Wagtail + 5 juvs
Plenty juv Meadow Pipits

All the rain has made very little difference to the Raggalds Flood level and just held
6 Woodpigeons and 3 Stock doves.
BS