WEST YORKSHIRE BIRDING. BRIAN SUMNER. I am based at Queensbury and bird a patch within a 10 mile range of home incorporating 16 stretches of water, several plantations, a belt of woodland, stretches of river and canal and good areas of moorland. I specialize in upland birds, reservoir and sky watching. My local patch is Fly Flatts reservoir. Any reports can be sent by text or call to 07771 705024 or see profile for e mail address. All images on this blog are copyright.(2024).
WEST YORKSHIRE BIRDING
BRIAN SUMNER.
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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
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Ogden
Plenty Long Tailed Tits
Gt Crested Grebes + 2 Tufted
Resident Heron
2 Poor record shots of House Martins >W over Foxhill.
Planned to go to Old Guy Rd to try photograph the Whinchat after Nigels report but the dogs had other ideas for me so ended up taking them to Ogden which turned out well as a tractor was working the field where the Whinchat hangs out.
A moment of heart stopping panic as I scanned the reservoir in the bright low sun when I picked up the Gt Crested Grebe with what looked like 2 Common Scoter but as I got to a better position they turned out to be 2 Tufted, phew.
Swarms of biting midges were around the waters edge bringing out several tit flocks with Great, Blue and Long Tailed which annoyingly keep flitting in the Willows making them near impossible to snap.
About 20 BHGs were on the water + the usual 2 LBBs.
On the way back 2 Wheatear were near the opening of the Ned Hill track.
Mipits were again moving this morning between 0645 and 0730 hrs but as the sky turned blue the movement ceased.
Several House Martins were moving >W over Foxhill at midday.
BS