WEST YORKSHIRE BIRDING: Local Haunts

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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KEEPING BIRDING LOCAL.

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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 22, 2014

Local Haunts

Rain clouds over Oxenhope heading for Soil Hill

Plenty Skylarks on the hill

Soil Hill stone circle

Soil Hill triangulation point

Jackdaws taking over the Little Owls site

Raggalds Flood looking healthier

A thorough check of Soil Hill late afternoon found no Wheatears but conditions were atrocious with a strong WNW>6 and heavy snow, sleet and rain brightening periodically.

Shelf Moor trailer park 0730hrs
15 Meadow Pipits
1 Snipe
2 BH gulls

Green Lane 0745hrs
1 Kestrel mobbed with Jackdaws

Soil Hill 1545hrs
4 Canada Geese, NK pond
c 30 Meadow Pipits
2pr Lapwing
1 Curlew
12 Skylark

Ned Hill
2 LBB gulls..... >NW
5 Meadow Pipits

Raggalds Flood
4m Pied Wagtails
1pr Lapwing
usual corvids
BS