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Monday, May 27, 2013

Bank Holiday Bash

                         Leeshaw Pied Wags

                   Leeshaw ploughed field greening up,  Oyk
                                              Leeshaw Little Owl
                        Plenty LBBs on the moor after eggs and chicks
                                     Oystercatcher seeing off a predator
                  Fly Flatts Reed Bunting
                               Distant Curlew seeing off a hunting LBB.

A bright but breezy morning with a cold WSW>5 blowing throughout and dark clouds to the west.

A tour round this morning with nothing spectacular and starting to feel like the quietest month, ( June).

Leeshaw Reservoir
3 Oystercatchers
2 Redshank
1 Ringed Plover
1 Little Ringed Plover
1 Cormorant
1 Little Owl
8 LBB gulls
2 BHGs
3  Pied Wagtail
Plenty Swifts >E
+ usual sp.

Fly Flatts
3 Redshank
2 Oystercatchers
2m Reed Bunting
4 LBB gulls
Swifts >E
+ usual sp

Hunter Hill
2f Wheatear
1 Kestrel
2 Willow Warblers
+ usual sp.

Mixenden area
White Crow

Raggalds Flood
2 Lapwing
2 Linnet
1 Pied Wagtail
water receding rapidly .
BS