A quick dinnertime dash to the Dailies to see if the Linnet flock had appeared yet this year.
The top field was in good fettle thick with Ragwort and Thistle which were alive with butterflies and insects but not a Linnet in sight.
This time last year the Linnet flock was over 100 but with the breeding area of Gorse bushes killed off after the severe winter the Linnets have obviously moved on. Hopefully they will return during dispersion.
Several Swifts headed up the Aire Valley along with good numbers of LBB and BH gulls all north.
All Warblers from lower down the fields in the Hawthorns seemed to have moved away.
An interesting report today from a firms secretary of a Ringed Necked Parakeet on her garden feeders at her home in Silsden/ Addingham. Unknown if this is an escapee or a wild bird. Thanks for the info Jackie.
BS