A peaceful quiet location
Leeshaw Reservoir pm visit.
A good evening to be out after a cold N, NE windy day. Swifts were in abundance, some moving through, others blogging over the reservoir. LBB gulls were also on the move with some at the waters edge including 2 adult Herrings. A single Cuckoo was calling up on the moor to the north.
32 Greylag inc young
Sev canadas
7 Curlew
Plenty Swifts, some >N
2 Herring gull on shore
4 LBB gull on shore
16 LBB gull >N
21 Lapwing
2 Redshank
1 Little Owl
1 Cuckoo, heard
Few Meadow Pipits but no other passerines.
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Bad reports from Oats Royd these bright evenings with half wits launching rafts and a canoe on the breeding ponds, 1 Moorhen and 1 Canada goose stoned and killed, 2 young Canadas so far surviving but very vunerable and several fires started with cider bottles and lighter fuel cannisters everywhere. The owner has been informed.
There has just been an organised deer cull down there to lower the herd from 14 to 4 because of tree damage but in my mind he,d have been better having a scumbag cull.
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