A quick look on Green Lane tonight produced
2 Grey Partridge
11 Linnet
8 Goldfinch
c 60 Swift.........................>W
150+ Jackdaws around the roost
2 Lapwing
+ usual corvids.
The top of Shibden valley had the usual Linnets, Blackbirds, Kestrel with Willow Warblers singing down in the trees.
This was a common area for Green Woodpecker but as other areas they are now noticeable by their absence.
Shibden Valley is a well neglected birding area now, possibly because most of us birders are getting older and the hillsides that we were brought up birding on, which we used to rush up and down almost daily, are now more like climbing everest.
We used to know every tree down there and where every bird was but now its vastly overgrown and most of the paths have gone which is good for the wildlife but a hard area to work.
BS