WEST YORKSHIRE BIRDING: Good start, shame about the rest.

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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NOTE !!

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.

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Good start, shame about the rest.

Camera shy Little Owl

A good start to the morning when a pair of Teal flew >S past the back of the house from the direction of the Raggalds Flood at 0630hrs but all downhill from there.

Raggalds Flood 0700hrs
3 Lapwings

Raggalds Flood 1530hrs
1pr Lapwing
1 Pied Wagtail

Mixenden Reservoir 1545hrs
5 Canada Geese and that was it, not even a gull or Mallard.

Trailer Park field 1615hrs
5 Lapwing
1 Pied Wagtail

Juncus field 1625hrs
1 Snipe
4 Meadow Pipits
1 Reed Bunting

Green Lane/ Corporal Hill area 1645hrs
1 Little Owl
2 Fieldfare
7 Greenfinch
Usual small gulls and corvids

Swallows are now being reported from coastal areas
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