Foxhill park is alive at the moment with up to 150 juv and adult Starlings feeding in the grass but unfortunately several casualty's with 3 rings of feathers seen today from Sparrowhawk kills and strangely 4 dead Starlings from the nest fully grown but un feathered in the middle of the park as if they had been snatched from the nest then dropped?
House Sparrows have bred in good numbers with several now out and calling to be fed.
Non breeding LBB gulls have started moving over each evening now all >E in the direction of Eccup reservoir and the odd sighting of a Common gull >NW over the village this morning.
Raggalds Flood is now bone dry and grassed over with 1 f Wheatear and the usual Woodpigeons and corvids present this lunch time.
May 2013 Red Kite over Ogden
May 2013 Dunlin and Redshank, Raggalds Flood
May 2013, record shot of Yellow Wagtail, Raggalds Flood.
BS
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).
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