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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Dinnertime Dailies Dash.

                       Looking down on the old station
                                              Bright to the east
                                      Linnets favourite nest area, Gorse.


                               Bottom of the Dailies and cycle track to Thornton.

A deteriorating day with a grey start with some brightness around midday and a SW>4  .
By late afternoon the wind had increased to near gale force SW>7 with light drizzle showers.
A quick dash to the top of the Dailie fields at lunchtime found a steady passage of LBB gulls >N up the Aire valley but no signs of hirundines moving through.
A check for Wheatear lower down towards the station found 3 Linnet checking out their annual gorse bush breeding area whilst a single Chiffchaff was calling from the Hawthorns.
Back at the top of the fields 7 Collared Doves were moving about in the shrubs on the old allotnent.
BS